More than one ruler had fallen through mistakes and excesses of his underlings.
When the heroic ruler of the Angas fell, his divisions fled away.
The ruler of the interior provinces has fallen into their hands and the government remains at the disposal of His Majesty's Representative'.
During the next 250 years, Bali's rulers fell to squabbling among themselves and the island split into ten or more rajadoms.
As the two rulers fall in love, the Druids and the Romans begin to plot their downfall.
The Asiatic rulers could not even fall back on wired telephony; the obsolete ground lines had long since been salvaged for their copper.
The power-hungry ruler falls to the lava below the immense precipice screaming the name of his wife, implying his demise.
A body of knowledge "preserved a moral community" even as rulers rose and fell and power shifted from one city to another.
The past record of the army is that whenever there has been a conflict between it and the country's ruler, the ruler has fallen.
In recent decades, the trend was favorable - military rulers fell, leaving Cuba as the only outright dictatorship.