They argued that the Company should try to win over its subjects by outdoing the region's previous rulers in the support of indigenous learning.

Nigeria's new leader says the man believed to have won a presidential election annulled by the country's previous ruler should be allowed to run again.

Not everywhere had the previous rulers been popular.

He was the son of a previous ruler.

No previous Saudi ruler has found himself in such a squeeze.

He was the younger brother of the previous ruler, King Chimnyu.

They were obviously much more concerned with problems of the world outside Europe than any previous rulers had been.

And the successor will sometimes (as often is necessary) have rapport with some or many of the previous dynastic rulers.

She was responsible for the coup which eliminated the previous rulers and gave herself political power.

An official in the government of Guinea said that many of those arrested had ties to the country's previous military rulers.