ruling (n.)
- absolute
- act
- action
- appointment
- arch
- ascendant
- authoritarian
- average
- award
- banner
- bill
- boss
- brevet
- bull
- bylaw
- canon
- capital
- cardinal
- central
- champion
- chief
- common
- competent
- condemnation
- consideration
- current
- decision
- declaration
- decree
- deliverance
- determination
- diagnosis
- dictate
- dictation
- dictum
- directive
- dominant
- doom
- dynamic
- edict
- enactment
- epidemic
- fiat
- finding
- first
- form
- formality
- formula
- formulary
- general
- governing
- great
- head
- imperative
- institution
- jus
- law
- leading
- legislation
- lex
- main
- master
- measure
- mighty
- normal
- official
- operative
- order
- ordinance
- ordinary
- pandemic
- precedent
- prescript
- prescription
- primary
- prime
- principal
- proclamation
- prognosis
- pronouncement
- pronunciamento
- ranking
- regnant
- regulating
- regulation
- rescript
- resolution
- rife
- routine
- rubric
- rule
- running
- senior
- sentence
- sovereign
- standard
- star
- statute
- striking
- strong
- superior
- telling
- totalitarian
- ukase
- valid
- verdict
- vital
ruling (adj.)
- absolute
- act
- arch
- ascendant
- authoritarian
- authoritative
- authorized
- autocratic
- average
- award
- banner
- bill
- boss
- capital
- cardinal
- central
- champion
- chief
- cogent
- commanding
- common
- competent
- consequential
- considerable
- controlling
- crowning
- current
- directive
- dominant
- dynamic
- edict
- effective
- eminent
- empowered
- energetic
- epidemic
- finding
- first
- focal
- forceful
- forcible
- foremost
- form
- formulary
- general
- governing
- great
- head
- high-powered
- high-pressure
- high-tension
- imperative
- important
- influential
- irresistible
- jus
- law
- leading
- lex
- magisterial
- main
- master
- mighty
- momentous
- normal
- official
- operative
- order
- ordinary
- overriding
- pandemic
- paramount
- pivotal
- popular
- potent
- powerful
- precedent
- predominant
- predominate
- preeminent
- preponderant
- prescription
- prestigious
- prevailing
- prevalent
- primal
- primary
- prime
- principal
- prominent
- puissant
- rampant
- ranking
- regnant
- regulating
- regulation
- regulative
- regulatory
- reigning
- resolution
- rife
- routine
- running
- senior
- sovereign
- standard
- star
- statute
- stellar
- stereotyped
- striking
- strong
- substantial
- superior
- supreme
- telling
- totalitarian
- usual
- valid
- vigorous
- vital
- weighty
- widespread
And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.
The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still.
The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.
