How to Use ruling in a Sentence

ruling

1 of 2 noun
  • She disputed the referee's ruling.
  • The decision overturns the Supreme Court's earlier ruling.
  • Stocks rose on the news of the ruling.
    — Jay Caruso, The Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The judge has yet to make a ruling.
    — Sam Blum, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The scale of the ruling is large.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The ruling means the case is over.
    — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Leon wrote in the 35-page ruling.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The ruling wasn’t a complete loss for the golfer, though.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 14 May 2026
  • Here are key takeaways from the ruling.
    — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Moore said the ruling will be appealed.
    — Larry Lage, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
  • What did the Supreme Court ruling say?
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 26 June 2026
  • The ruling is the latest twist in a case that has dragged on for eleven years.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 18 June 2026
  • The judge, in her ruling, largely agreed.
    — Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
  • No court ruling can return the years and the love that were taken from me.
    — Claire Lempert, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The court's ruling and the names of the cases are reprinted here.
    — Arkansas Online, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The court's ruling and the names of the cases are reprinted here.
    — Arkansas Online, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The court's ruling and the names of the cases are reprinted here.
    — Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The state judge has not yet issued a ruling either.
    — Michael Ruiz , Maria Paronich, FOXNews.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • In the end, the court’s tariffs ruling has not done anything new.
    — Sandeep Gopalan, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Any ruling could be appealed to the state’s highest court.
    — Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
  • That lasted five games until new rulings barred him again.
    — Eddie Pells, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • In the event of a deadlock, the lower court’s ruling stands.
    — Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Now, more than five years later, the board has handed down its first ruling.
    — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 16 Mar. 2026
  • What’s the ruling on this, LSU fans?
    — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • That ruling could reduce his total prison time.
    — ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • That ruling could reduce his total prison time.
    — ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Thursday’s ruling added to the panic and chaos.
    — ABC News, 26 June 2026
  • An appeals court backed the lower court ruling.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • At this point, the judge's ruling is final, and the amount of the penalties will stand.
    — John Ramos, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2026
  • That distinction is key to the ruling.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 10 June 2026

ruling

2 of 2 adjective
  • The groups are a staple of pro-ruling party demonstrations.
    — ABC News, 14 May 2026
  • The decision to annul the August elections stunned observers and was just the fourth such ruling world-wide.
    — Matina Stevis-Gridneff, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2017
  • The governor and her husband are both members of the ruling Morena party.
    — Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 12 May 2025
  • This dereliction of its duty is the result of how ruling-class parties have evolved in the neoliberal era.
    — Ashley Smith, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
  • All of the legal power belongs to the sole ruling Communist party.
    — Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The ruling Baath party claims to represent all of Syria’s religions and sects.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • Both Sheinbaum and Brugada are prominent members of the ruling Morena party.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
  • Arab nationalism was largely smothered when Iraq’s former ruling Baath party was banned in 2003.
    — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The Mexican government is desperate to find new revenue sources as the ruling Morena party is running enormous budget deficits.
    — Rachel Dobkin, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Saudi Arabia in 2011 sent troops into Bahrain to bolster the ruling family, which was facing unrest.
    — Stanley Reed and Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 5 June 2017
  • Machado recounted a teacher who convinced her local ruling-party captain to support the opposition after her son, living in Peru, urged her to vote for change.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The increase in angry partisanship and polarization is making ruling coalitions more fragile, and governance all the more difficult.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The ruling Liberal-National Coalition had been divided and tossed out two prime ministers during its nearly six years in power.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 May 2019
  • Her decision to relinquish the post comes after a bruising week for the ruling Liberal-National coalition government.
    — James Glynn, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2018
  • For sure, most were looked down on as unworthy minorities for much of American history by the ruling Anglo-Saxon Protestants.
    — WSJ, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Charismatic and fiery, Pashinyan had convinced some lawmakers from the ruling Republican Party to cross party lines and vote for him — something unthinkable just a short while ago.
    — Washington Post, 12 May 2018
  • Third, personalism of security forces weakens the power of other groups that might otherwise constrain the leader, such as elites in the ruling political party and even generals who oppose a leader’s power grab.
    — Joe Wright, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2025
  • She was awarded the prize in 1991, for leading the opposition to the ruling military junta and calling for a nonviolent transition to a democratic society.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Just as the purveyors of apartheid did, the ruling African Nation Congress seems to often prioritize self-aggrandizement and neglect social development.
    — Norma Young, Quartz Africa, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Yet Taiwan was considered the ideal place to sample regional Chinese cuisine at the time, both because of what the ruling political elite consumed and the many traditions and techniques brought by recent immigrants to the nation.
    — Jessica Carbone, Saveur, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Regional foreign policy is not just about preserving the survival of a particular monarchical regime but ensuring the leadership of a particular set of individuals within the ruling family.
    — Russell E. Lucas, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2017
  • The president has been enthusiastically embraced in Riyadh, where the ruling royal family of Saudi Arabia has welcomed his aggressive stance on Iran, its regional foe.
    — Fox News, 21 May 2017
  • Shinjiro Koizumi, the son of a former prime minister and a rising star within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was appointed environment minister.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Armenians widely blamed Sargsyan and his ruling Republican Party for keeping the country as the Caucasus region's poorest through corruption and incompetence.
    — Fox News, 7 May 2018
  • This vibe continues to be brought to you courtesy of your co-ruling planet, rebellious Uranus, moving into your fifth house of self-expression on April 25, empowering you to lean fully into your penchant for unconventionality and incorporating the element of surprise in your personal style.
    — Maressa Brown, InStyle, 9 Jan. 2026

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