Isis could not stand by and let this happen because her son was the rightful ruler.

He then demanded to be recognized as the rightful ruler of Numidia.

Angrily, she stared up at the King, as if she were the rightful ruler and not he.

"Because I promised the King that only the rightful ruler would be allowed to have it."

Conservatives had come to believe that they were the rightful rulers of the country.

We recover it in the name of the ancient rightful rulers.

And they've got to let their rightful rulers return to Kuwait.

Or, no, not different, but lying on a deeper foundation; there was some sort of affinity between the rightful ruler and the land itself.

And yet they claimed to be his heirs, the rightful rulers of the world.

After all, why would you disobey your rightful ruler?