In contrast, the third branch, the Zaidi, view them only as political figures with the duty to lead revolts against corrupt rulers and governments.

It would not, they say, affect its notoriously corrupt military rulers, who would still have more than $10 billion a year in oil revenues.

A quietly spoken man with a commanding presence, he has a clean reputation in an Islamic nation which has suffered years of corrupt rulers.

The corrupt rulers of countries where the U.S. is at war can simply dare the Americans to end their support.

He is considered a corrupt ruler who before he died squandered most of the wealth which he had derived from these and other benefices.

However, he was an ineffective and corrupt ruler, taking bribes and speculating on land.

Authoritarian, corrupt rulers suddenly found themselves denounced as tyrants by people they believed safely under their boot heels.

Then we will chase all corrupt rulers from the Arab lands.

She focused on the pros and cons of people in power and wrote about corrupt rulers.

- on the Arab uprisings: "When will these corrupt rulers come to realise that guns cannot silence the people?