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.
  • Still, Callaghan could be the one to make the ultimate ruling.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2023
  • The ruling is a major blow to the White House's efforts to stem migration.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • In the wake of that ruling, the administration turned to its Plan B.
    Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The plaintiffs appealed this ruling to the 5th Circuit.
    Allie Kelly, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Per the judge's ruling, Wade's resignation means Willis and the rest of her team will remain on the case.
    Olivia Rubin, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The ruling removes the biggest, but not the only obstacle, to the merger.
    Matt O'Brien, ajc, 11 July 2023
  • Davis' ruling calls on the commission to follow open records laws.
    Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 13 June 2023
  • The carriers do have the option of appealing the ruling.
    David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The last of those gaps came — to the shock of creditors — after the court’s December ruling giving the two sides one final chance to cut a deal.
    Alice Huang, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The court heard oral arguments in the case in late February and a ruling is expected in the coming weeks.
    Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner, 24 May 2023
  • For now, courts are stuck in a chaotic moment, unsure of how to apply the new high court rulings to emerging threats to peace.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The Bucs challenged the ruling on the field that London was down by contact before losing possession of the ball.
    Fox News, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Before the judge could make a ruling after a Jan. 22 hearing, the government offered Lynch a plea deal.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Experts say the justices could seek to avoid another 'Bush v. Gore' ruling.
    Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The Alabama Supreme Court ruling took the personhood concept to a new level.
    Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Central to the ruling was that Google only allowed users to view snippets of text without providing the full book.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Judge Agne agreed and stated in her ruling that the team and stadium would likely succeed if the case continued in court.
    Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The state immediately appealed the ruling, which is now on hold.
    Frances Stead Sellers, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the court’s liberals to form a majority in the ruling.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Murphy ordered Bellows to wait and issue a new ruling after the Supreme Court decides the Colorado case.
    Harold Maass, The Week Us, theweek, 18 Jan. 2024
  • But in a March 15 ruling, Judge Timothy Hicks denied that request, which allows the case to move forward.
    Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 31 Mar. 2024
  • The court will hear arguments this winter, setting the stage for a major ruling on free speech and social media.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The ruling comes at a particularly tense juncture for the Tesla CEO.
    Will Oremus, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
  • But after the Court’s ruling, schools weren’t the only private institutions that found themselves in the crosshairs of DEI’s critics.
    Noah Rothman, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The ruling follows a 17-day trial that started in October.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The trial had been repeatedly pushed back while both sides awaited Tuesday’s ruling by the Court of Appeals.
    Bill Donahue, Billboard, 13 June 2023
  • Acting before a Supreme Court ruling, House votes to block Biden's student loan forgiveness plan.
    USA TODAY, 25 May 2023
  • In September, the city appealed a court ruling that allowed Gabela to run as a qualified candidate in the District 1 election last fall.
    Joey Flechas, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2024
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ruling

2 of 2 adjective
  • 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
  • But as the assault on Roe v. Wade has taught us, not all challenges to precedent must confront the original ruling head-on.
    Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 5 July 2017
  • As prices soared and gas lines stretched, Brazilians united in a shared hatred of the ruling political class.
    Marina Lopes, Washington Post, 28 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Arab nationalism was largely smothered when Iraq’s former ruling Baath party was banned in 2003.
    The Economist, 8 Mar. 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
  • The ruling Republican Party agreed to meet the opposition’s final demands: Pashinyan’s path to the premiership would not be obstructed.
    Matthew Bodner, The New Republic, 4 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Photo: Reuters The operation’s success provides a lift for a ruling military junta that has long been criticized for repeatedly putting off elections following a 2014 coup.
    Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 10 July 2018
  • 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
  • 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 decision to annul the August elections stunned observers and was just the fourth such ruling world-wide.
    Matina Stevis-Gridneff, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2017
  • But as the assault on Roe v. Wade has taught us, not all challenges to precedent must confront the original ruling head-on.
    Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 5 July 2017
  • As prices soared and gas lines stretched, Brazilians united in a shared hatred of the ruling political class.
    Marina Lopes, Washington Post, 28 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Arab nationalism was largely smothered when Iraq’s former ruling Baath party was banned in 2003.
    The Economist, 8 Mar. 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

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