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adj. Exercising control or authority: the ruling junta; ruling circles of the government.

adj. Predominant: the ruling principle.

n. The act of governing or controlling.

n. An authoritative or official decision: a court ruling.

adj. That rules or rule.

n. An order or a decision on a point of law from someone in authority.

v. Present participle of rule.

adj. Predominant; chief; reigning; controlling.

adj. Used in marking or engraving lines.

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.

n. The determination by a judge or court of a point arising in the course of a trial or hearing.

n. The act of making ruled lines; also, such lines collectively.

Having control or authority; governing; reigning; chief; prevalent; predominant.

Synonyms Prevailing, Predominant, etc. (see prevalent), controlling.

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

adj. exercising power or authority

"The retirement for a president is not 65years it can be 90 you can be the president in ruling from a nursing home there is nothing wrong with that it is also making history."

powerful   

subordinate   

ruling elder    ruling case   

directing    controlling    guiding    governing    prevalent    predominant    prevailing    chief    reigning    regnant   

rule   

cooling    drooling    dueling    fooling    fueling    fuelling    grueling    pooling    refueling    retooling