The department used to rely on old-fashioned charts and rulers to work out where to search.
After seizing power in a coup in 1999, Pervez Musharraf became one of Pakistan's longest-serving rulers.
They were farmers from Gujarat whom Moghul rulers used to sort out village disputes.
Like South Africa's rulers next door, Botswana's have yet to face a serious political rival.
By contrast, poorly performing rulers, eg, in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, have been sent packing.
He opened a small textile store that used to supply goods to the erstwhile rulers.
For similar reasons, Musharraf is unlikely to change Pakistan's policy toward Afghanistan and its Taliban rulers.
With peace assured by their powerful fleet, the Minoan rulers left their palaces unfortified.
The Bible speaks of the difficulties of rich young rulers getting into the kingdom.
The al-Saud believe if they oppose them, it will undermine their own legitimacy as rulers.
The institutions include the rulers and senior officials across the federation of seven semi-autonomous Gulf emirates.
Its rulers fear that a reunited Somalia might want to claim it back again.
Historically, rulers liked censuses, because they enable them to conscript and tax their people.
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The government listened to her, as the rulers of New York had only ever half done.
But Syria's rulers have not always bowed to the inevitable with such good grace.
And Africa's rulers, with one or two shining exceptions, have not yet done so.
Thousands of small stores and state-owned companies in China make pencils, rulers and staples.
President Robert Mugabe, who now ranks alongside Africa's longest-serving rulers, has been in power since 1980.
What effect any of this will have on Myanmar's rulers remains to be seen.
But, she said, the greater danger lies with Afghanistan's former rulers -- the fundamentalist Taliban.
Abu Dhabi will insist on greater prudence and Dubai's go-getting rulers may also now feel defeated.
All of which leaves Saudi Arabia's rulers between a rock and a hard place.
The rulers of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, ancient as they are, have made improvements.
Shia connections around the Middle East, long held back by Sunni rulers, would strengthen.
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But they must be aware that erstwhile friends have repeatedly toppled intransigent Afghan rulers.
So, today's pressing question for Egypt is what steps the new military rulers should take.
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Monarchs and other authoritarian rulers have never liked concentrations of wealth outside their control.
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There are some bridges, however, that the rulers of Vietnam are in no great hurry to build.
Fittingly, its greatest rulers have been as notable for their spiritual experiments as for their political ones.
Among the adults, Stanley Tucci and Elizabeth Banks, wearing enormous wigs, camp it up as the rulers.
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