Sentence examples for We governed from inspiring English sources

How much are we governed by circumstances beyond our control?

By such are we governed today: soulless puppets dangling from the rich man's string, their wooden hands outstretched, palms upturned.

We governed from afar, exported our ways of doing things, imposed our languages, our education, our religion and much else besides.

I believe we would be so much better off if we governed ourselves, controlled our borders.

Bush is betting his presidency on the Iraqis and their ability to govern themselves better than we governed them.

Let it be a hopeful country, because we governed with imagination Let it be a united country, because we governed with fairness Let it be a prosperous country, because we governed with courage Over the horizon is a Britain that pays its way in the world.

Whether they voted 'No' or 'Yes', people said we need to change the way we are governed and who we are governed for.

And because we the governed are demonstrably uncertain, we are getting only what we consented to.

This is what we, the governed, consent to when we dress a man in a uniform and call him an officer of the law.

That is why we have proposed changing the way we are governed in England, with extensive new devolution to local government from Cornwall to Cumbria.

There was never, it seems, the gut belief that how we are governed actually shapes what governments do, never the energy to enthuse voters with an appetite for change.