Who ruled Piedmont?

That king ruled wisely.

The king governed the country.

Spain once ruled the Philippines.

Spain once governed the Philippine Islands.

The leader governed his country for more than 50 years.

The PRI ruled Mexico for seven decades until losing the presidency in 2000.

Once the Sultan ruled over what today is Turkey.

Lee Kuan Yew was Singapore s founding leader who ruled for more than three decades.

Alim Khan, the Last Emir of Bukhara, ruled part of Uzbekistan under the suzerainty of the Russian empire.

Our own day and age may seem particularly tumultuous but the years when Schmidt governed Germany were anything but quiet.

Given that Qaddafi ruled Libya for more than four decades, his is a legacy that cannot simply be ignored.

Bishop Angiolo Acciaioli briefly ruled Florence in the mid 14th century after the deposition of Gauthier de Brienne.

A Zaydi Imamate ruled many parts of northern Yemen for 1000 years, up until the last Imam was overthrown in 1962.

Yemen s army is mainly made up northern tribes that were loyal to former President Saleh, who ruled the country for 33 years.

Hosni Mubarak, the secular despot who ran Egypt for 30 years until his downfall in 2011, had little time for Hamas.

Roughly one hundred years later, during the reign of Emperor Ōjin, a Hata prince, Yuzuki no Kimi, visited Japan from the Kingdom of Baekje in Korea.

The Audiencia governed until June or July, 1618, when the new governor, Alonso Fajardo y Tenza arrived and took up office.

Unfortunately, Peña Nieto, whose party ruled Mexico in the bad old days, is unlikely to be the president who breaks the mold.

Yet the rival LDP, which had governed almost uninterruptedly for several decades until 2009, has proven itself to be an ineffective opposition party.

Augusto Pinochet, Chile s former dictator, ruled for 16 years in the name of authoritarian democracy, and then attempted to leave behind what he called a protected democracy.

The US then installed the brutal dictatorship of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, which ruled the country until the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

Like former Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, the only other KGB man to rule Russia, Putin will become the party s general secretary.

The center has a great platform where probably was placed the house of an elite leading member, who probably ruled Cuetlajuchitlán at a point in time.

Unlike in previous years, they re daring to defy President Enrique Peña Nieto, whose PRI party ruled Mexico for 70 years during the last century.

Indian voters decisively rejected the Congress party, which had governed India virtually without interruption since it gained independence from Britain in 1947.

Little is known about Shvarn and his rule, but historians believe he was unable to take control of all Lithuania, and ruled only over its southern portions.

For many Mexicans, the restoration to power of a party that governed in an authoritarian manner and returns without having had to modernize itself, is a cause for neither insomnia nor even concern.

A crucial test of universal jurisdiction is now moving forward in Senegal, where one of Africa s cruelest dictators, Hissène Habré, who ruled Chad from 1982 to 1990, is set to be prosecuted.

But the left wing populists influenced by Chávez who ruled Venezuela for 14 years have perfected a particularly illiberal practice bending constitutional rules to allow themselves to be reelected again and again.

Morsi, who is a Muslim Brotherhood member, was the president of Egypt for one year after the revolution, which overthrew Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for more than 30 years.

Acclaimed as a national hero among radical right wingers, the iron fisted Park Chung hee ruled South Korea from 1963 to 1979, in the wake of the 1961 military coup, only to be assassinated by his intelligence chief.

Dresser laments the comeback of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI, in Spanish), the political party that ruled the country for over 70 years and which returned to power with Enrique Peña Nieto s presidency

LONDON In the United States, for people of a certain age, Margaret Thatcher was a superstar, and Americans have been surprised at the sharply divided views on display in the Britain that she governed for 11 years.

Obote ruled until 27 July 1985, when an army brigade, composed mostly of ethnic Acholi troops and commanded by Lt. Gen. Bazilio Olara Okello, took Kampala and proclaimed a military government.

The Congress of Vienna (1814 1815) gave the Duchy to exiled Spanish Borbón Maria Louisa (1782 1824), who became the Duchess of Lucca and disregarded the constitution imposed on her by the congress, and governed in an absolutist fashion.

Despite some notable successes, such as the aircraft manufacturer Embraer in Brazil and salmon farming in Chile, governments largely picked losers not least because political pressure, not firms competitive potential, drove the selection process.

To be sure, it maintained a navy equal in size to the next two fleets combined, and its empire, on which the sun never set, ruled over a quarter of humankind. But there were major differences in the relative power resources of imperial Britain and contemporary America.

In 1926 professionalism came to the Hungarian football scene, with the unfortunate result that Bocskay FC was formed using players from DVSC and city rivals DKASE and DTE, with the result that Bocskay ruled the football roost in Debrecen for 15 years while DVSC continued to struggle in the lower divisions.

Rabello de Castro s irony is apt, for it is difficult to say which candidate represents more of the same President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is running for re election and is the favorite according to the polls, or former Governor of São Paulo, Geraldo Alckmin, of the PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party, which governed Brazil for eight years before Lula, with Fernando Henrique Cardoso as President).