But analysts wanted Alcatel to get into data-networking technology, where Lucent, Nortel and Cisco rule the roost.

FORBES: Laggard

But in Mingora the Taliban still rule the roost, standing eyeball to eyeball with soldiers holed up in government buildings.

ECONOMIST: Taking on Islamist militants exacts a terrible human toll

Men used to rule the roost and making the adjustment to a slightly more equal world has hit some of them hard.

ECONOMIST: American men

Imposing rules of any sort is unpopular with county auditors, polling officers and the other people who rule the roost in the current system.

ECONOMIST: Washington state politics

Their 21st century counterparts iPads, Kindles and Nooks now rule the roost.

FORBES: A Monster Real Estate Paradigm Shift Demands A New Direction for Capital

The principal says Percy has started to rule the roost, deliveries are having to be taken via another door and even the caretaker has taken to wearing hobnailed boots.

BBC: Bangor children urge 'mercy for Percy' the pheasant

But if you give yourself permission, first of all, to collaborate, to enjoy what other people bring, it doesn't have to be 'rule the roost' you become part of a team and make something.

WSJ: The Ecstasy of Influence | Innovator of the Year 2012 Design

Deficits rule the roost.

FORBES: The Constitution as a ��Broad Highway�� for Progress

In America, the chief executive is typically also the chairman, allowing him to rule the boardroom roost unchallenged.

ECONOMIST: America has Sarbanes-Oxley. Britain has Derek Higgs