I. noun
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a court ruling (= an official decision )
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The company appealed against the court ruling.
reverse a decision/ruling
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The Supreme Court reversed the decision.
ruling elite
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a struggle for power within the ruling elite
the ruling class (= the people in power )
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For a long time, French was the language of the ruling class.
the ruling party (= the party in power )
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The ruling party’s level of support grew throughout the year.
the ruling/governing coalition
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The March elections may weaken the ruling coalition.
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■ ADJECTIVE
new
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But one of two new rulings deemed experimental for one season, is dividing the rugby world.
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The Service can, and has, offset certain undesirable Commission-inspired legislation with new rulings of its own.
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However, the new ruling will be relevant only when the court is satisfied that the law is ambiguous or obscure.
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The wooden stemming rod was clearly safer, yet in every mining district there were those who disregarded the new rulings .
recent
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Democrats in Congress are determined to reverse the Supreme Court's recent anti-affirmative-action rulings .
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Cost of take-over battles to soar A RECENT ruling by Customs and Excise could add millions to the costs of company takeovers.
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court
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A court ruling had, however, found that the results of the referendums could not be implemented without further legal investigation.
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The initiative passed by a wide margin, but initial court rulings have enjoined its enforcement.
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Mr Bush continues to oppose him, encouraged by this week's court rulings in his favour.
■ VERB
give
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The Bank has not given a formal ruling on this method of presentation from a capital adequacy perspective.
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Please could you give a ruling .
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I have already given my ruling on that and said exactly what the hon. Member should do about it.
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Rather the court gave an authoritative ruling on how the statutory definition applies in the case of a motor vehicle.
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After any other party has been heard the judge should give his formal ruling .
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Customs will probably refuse to give an advance ruling on a mere prospective transaction.
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Our courts have not yet been forced to give a direct ruling on this matter.
issue
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He has issued a religious ruling sanctioning the exchange of parts of the Biblical homeland for the chance of peace and security.
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In the past two terms, the court has issued conservative 5-4 rulings on affirmative action, voting rights and school desegregation.
make
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The courts have made several rulings against the Mugabe government.
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The department plans to make rulings by the end of this year.
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Following the formal request for a special prosecutor, Attorney General William Barr had up to 30 days to make a preliminary ruling .
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hand down a decision/ruling/sentence etc
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Just a few months earlier, the Supreme Court had handed down a decision inviting states to pass abortion restrictions.
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She is expected soon to hand down a ruling.
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The commission will seek to arbitrate a resolution before handing down a decision in late summer.
stay an order/ruling/execution etc
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Rivals got a stay order from the courts, though after a backroom deal in mid-March the government got its way.
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Case law has shown that court rulings on these kind of scenarios have resulted in arbitrary decisions.
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I have already given my ruling on that and said exactly what the hon. Member should do about it.
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I have no wish to question your ruling .
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On Tuesday, Hastings will decide whether to adopt procedural rulings made by the Sonoma County judge.
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The ruling requires that driftnet fishing be reduced by half by July this year, and cease altogether by December.
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The first collection of Innocent's own decretals, or legal rulings, was that by Rainer of Pomposa.
II. adjective
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■ NOUN
body
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As leader for nine years, he had an automatic place on the ruling body .
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There are 4 major ruling bodies running judo.
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But in a surprise move Short and Kasparov snubbed the ruling body and rejected the offer.
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The historical hostility to commercialism among the ruling bodies of sport is indisputable.
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The game's ruling body , the International Board, are monitoring the situation on a regular basis.
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Governor Chris Patten plans to boost voters' rights to make most of the colony's ruling body elected by 1995.
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A fee was paid to the ruling body and in the early years these were very low indeed.
class
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He argues that capitalist societies remain polarized between two main classes: the ruling class and the working class.
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Nor should the bureaucratization of society as a whole be confused with the emergence of the bureaucracy as a ruling class .
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Where there is such a controlling stratum it must become socially and politically dominant and therefore a ruling class .
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How the bureaucracy relates to the ruling class is more than a matter of origins.
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Therefore the dominance of the ruling class in the relations of production will be reflected in the superstructure.
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Some members of the ruling class have transferred property to relatives and friends to avoid death duties.
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It is not a theory of history but a product of history designed to serve the purposes of the ruling class .
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Westergaard and Resler put forward a conventional Marxist view of the ruling class .
coalition
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On Dec. 29 Eitan's right-wing nationalist Tsomet Party formally withdrew from the ruling coalition .
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But Conservatives in the ruling coalition dislike the idea because they fear losses at the polls next year to the far-right Republicans.
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Rehavam Ze'evi, Minister without Portfolio, threatened to withdraw his small Moledet party from the ruling coalition .
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The extension was unsuccessfully opposed in parliament by deputies both to the left and right of the ruling coalition .
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The ruling coalition in Parliament in 1978 was opposed to the reform.
elite
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After his speech the night before in the Academy, Brown had become an extremely unpopular figure amongst the ruling elite .
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Have they become a ruling elite or even a new ruling class?
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He had travelled across the city from the suburbs to the apartments of the ruling elite .
group
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Social mobility and elite circulation might increase, and the ruling group might become more heterogeneous, but government must remain oligarchic.
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This was exacerbated by the instability and personal feuding which characterized the new ruling group .
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One example can be found in the response of ruling groups and elites to the student movement of the 1960s.
junta
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Following the coup the ruling junta made few changes to economic policy.
party
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Her arrest was attributed to her village leader's opposition to the state ruling party .
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In these circumstances, what ruling party would stand a chance?
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In July he saw his party make history when it won the first governorship conceded by the ruling party in 60 years.
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The ruling party is confident of winning the election.
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the ruling party
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The crisis sparked after the ruling party rushed through revisions of the labor and national security laws in a semi-secret parliamentary session.
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the struggle between the workers and the ruling classes
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Ruling class power Westergaard and Resler argue that the maintenance of inequalities of wealth is due to the power of the ruling class.
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A single ruling class will still emerge, but a plurality of interests can make themselves felt within it.
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In July he saw his party make history when it won the first governorship conceded by the ruling party in 60 years.
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On Dec. 29 Eitan's right-wing nationalist Tsomet Party formally withdrew from the ruling coalition.
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Read the extract on p. 16 concerning the ruling class.
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This may result in conflict between the ruling minority and the rest of society.
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Those in favour included both the ruling New Democracy and the opposition socialist Pasok.