Kitbugha was a regent and the actual ruler of Egypt.

The names of the actual rulers of the Second Dynasty are in dispute.

In exchange, Barsavi is the actual ruler of a few of the city's more charming points.

All of a sudden Noir was sure that these caterpillars were not the actual rulers of this alien dimension.

He was crowned after father's death, but the actual ruler was his mother.

Later, every local Prince had his own Palatinus, often the actual ruler of a Duchy.

He is an actual ruler rather than a constitutional monarch (see enlightened absolutism).

They would wait until there were enough rayguns collected before making a frontal attack upon the actual rulers of the ship.

They kept them for their own, gaining a powerful position in the Prince-Archbishopric, pushing its actual ruler aside.

Since then German nobles were the actual rulers in Estonia.