ruling

[RulĀ·ing]

The official decision a judge makes is a ruling. You can also use this word as an adjective, to describe something or someone in charge, like a ruling political party.

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Predominant; chief; reigning; controlling; as, a ruling passion; a ruling sovereign.

Noun
the reason for a court''s judgment (as opposed to the decision itself)

Adjective S.
exercising power or authority


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Rule

a.
Predominant; chief; reigning; controlling; as, a ruling passion; a ruling sovereign.

a.
Used in marking or engraving lines; as, a ruling machine or pen.

n.
The act of one who rules; ruled lines.

n.
A decision or rule of a judge or a court, especially an oral decision, as in excluding evidence.


Ruling

Rul"ing, a. 1. Predominant; chief; reigning; controlling; as, a ruling passion; a ruling sovereign. 2. Used in marking or engraving lines; as, a ruling machine or pen. Syn. -- Predominant; chief; controlling; directing; guilding; governing; prevailing; prevalent.

Ruling

Rul"ing, n. 1. The act of one who rules; ruled lines. 2. (Law) A decision or rule of a judge or a court, especially an oral decision, as in excluding evidence.

Predominant; chief; reigning; controlling; as, a ruling passion; a ruling sovereign.

The act of one who rules; ruled lines.

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Usage Examples

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.

I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.

I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

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