The leader governed his country for more than 50 years.

Source: Tatoeba

"Literary composition is a great achievement that concerns the ruling of a state, a splendid affair of eternal standing".

Source: Tatoeba

The king governed the country.

Source: Tatoeba

The reason the Northern and Southern Dynasties had failed in their rule was that they allowed literary splendor to surpass real substance.

Source: Tatoeba

The warrior bands came and went, prosecuting their family feuds; but the great mass continued to till the soil, taking but little notice of their would-be rulers, so long as they did not interfere with the independence of their village communities.

Source: Tatoeba