: an official or authoritative decision, decree, statement, or interpretation (as by a judge on a point of law)
1
a
: exerting power or authority
the ruling party
b
: chief, predominating
a ruling passion
2
: generally prevailing
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Examples of ruling in a Sentence
Noun
The decision overturns the Supreme Court's earlier ruling.
She disputed the referee's ruling.
Adjective
members of the ruling class
the ruling opinion on premarital sex
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Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 23 Nov. 2024
Trump’s imminent presidency will not get him out of his civil cases, however, and the president-elect’s appeals of rulings against him in Carroll’s two defamation cases and the civil fraud trial against Trump and his associates will continue.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
Teele Rebane, CNN, 30 Aug. 2024
Mark Chenoweth, President and Chief Legal Officer, of the New Civil Liberties Alliance that argued the case before the Supreme Court, said in a statement the ruling remedied government overreach.
—Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
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Noun
The sentencing was originally scheduled for July, but Trump's lawyers won two delays because of a July 1 Supreme Court ruling that significantly broadened presidential immunity.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 23 Nov. 2024
Trump’s imminent presidency will not get him out of his civil cases, however, and the president-elect’s appeals of rulings against him in Carroll’s two defamation cases and the civil fraud trial against Trump and his associates will continue.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
Adjective
Between 1995 and 2022, there were only 308 successful kidney transplants in Myanmar, according to ruling junta chief Min Aung Hlaing’s office.
—Teele Rebane, CNN, 30 Aug. 2024
Mark Chenoweth, President and Chief Legal Officer, of the New Civil Liberties Alliance that argued the case before the Supreme Court, said in a statement the ruling remedied government overreach.
—Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
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“Ruling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ruling. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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