Due to Le Brun's close associations with France's
absolute ruler Louis XIV--after all, he is best known as the creator of the Hall of Mirrors, which celebrates the king's military achievements--the painter has carried a political weight that has put off generations of art historians.
Through timely foreign support and the fortunate deaths of rivals, Franco emerged as first among Nationalist rebels and
absolute ruler until his death in 1975.
With Khamenei being supreme commander of all the armed forces in Iran, as well as the
absolute ruler over all other things, the IRGC controlled Ahmadi-Nejad.
In Hobbes's philosophy (expressed in Leviathan and other works), the disorder in society needed to be brought under the control of an
absolute ruler who would maintain and impose the sovereign will of society upon its dissenters.
Imam Sadiq (PBUH) narrated: Allah ordered, by revelation, one of the prophets to go to the
absolute ruler of that kingdom and say to him: I have not appointed you for shedding their blood and seizing their property.
He was replaced by his halfbrother Salman as the
absolute ruler of the world's top oil exporter and the spiritual home of Islam.
Or is it that the corrupt
absolute ruler of Western Gottika may be scouting the city for teenage girls to kidnap?
Deadlines for presidential and legislative elections were missed time and again while Abbas consolidated his grip over the West Bank and Hamas became the
absolute ruler in Gaza.
But he also complained that he was unlikely to receive a fair trial in Iran: "The only court in which there is not even a small amount of injustice is divine justice because we are all Muslims and the
absolute ruler is God."
ACROSS 12 Tablet to boost energy (3,4) 14 Make lawful (8) 15 Expensive (6) 16 Firearm with a long barrel (5) 19 Protein-rich vegetarian foodstuff (4) 20 Wandered (7) 21 Looked intently (5) 22 Captain Marvel or Batman, eg (9) 23 Nation, country (5) 24 Snarled menacingly (7) 26
Absolute ruler (8) 29 Performer in a play (5) 34 Cheerio!
In 2003, after the establishment of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), where Paul Bremer was the
absolute ruler, Iran sent to Baghdad a delegation from the Foreign Ministry and the Revolutionary Guard to congratulate the CPA - which was drafted in American ink without ignoring 'Iran's friends.'
The Tsars always argued that their country's uniqueness demanded a distinctive form of government, with the Tsar himself as
absolute ruler of the Russian state, put there by God, and not subject to any limitation of his powers, with a firm belief that autocracy was essential if Russia were to exist as a single, totally unified country.
