The ruling group of people in a country or organization is the group that controls its affairs. the Mexican voters' growing dissatisfaction with the ruling party. the sport's ruling body, the International Cricket Council
An authorative decision made by the Speaker or chairperson on matters of procedure
Someone's ruling passion or emotion is the feeling they have most strongly, which influences their actions. Their ruling passion is that of carnal love. an official decision, especially one made by a court ruling on
The process by which a frame and/or horizontal lines are produced to guide the hand in writing; the word also refers to the linear guide thus produced Ruling was guided by pricking Beginning in the Carolingian period, templates were sometimes used in pricking and ruling Before the late eleventh century, ruling was generally executed with a hardpoint, producing a ridge-and-furrow effect Thereafter leadpoint was used in the layout of individual pages,enabling greater flexibility When the thin pen used to produce cursive scripts was revived in the later twelfth century, ruling was also done in ink, especially from the late thirteenth century on Coloured inks were employed in some manuscripts, such as the pink ruling in fifteenth-century Book of Hours The Italian humanists revived the use of hardpoint for ruling When paper was used as the writing support material, this could result in tears in the paper
A combination of horizontal and vertical bounding lines drawn or incised in simple or complex patterns used to set out the written space on a page and to guide the line of writing across the page Also describes the process of ruling Ruling may be drawn in dry or hard point using a stylus (i e , "ruled in dry point"), in lead or silver point (i e , "ruled in lead," or " ... in plummet," or "... in crayon," or "... in pencil"), or in ink using a pen (i e , "ruled in pen") A text block enclosed in upper and lower horizontal and inner and outer vertical bounding lines is said to be frame-ruled