Sentence examples for a decent administration from inspiring English sources

People with Congo connections say we were not so awful as that, we reformed the Congo and had a decent administration there.' Stengers acknowledges that the population of the Congo shrank dramatically in the 30 years after Leopold took over, though exact figures are hard to establish since no one knows how many inhabited the vast jungles in the 1880s.

"If he has a fairly decent administration, they will remain united.

Many could easily have been shaped by a decent Conservative administration.

The only post-Communist countries that have managed to build a decent state administration and the rule of law are those which had them before 1945.

Not that markets are a bad thing, just that on their own they do not deliver the minimum social values of fairness, lawfulness and decent administration.

Eventually, in 2002, in what looked like a pan-ethnic revolt against Mr Moi's lot, Mr Kibaki, another Kikuyu, won a multiparty election amid hopes that Kenya would at last have a decent, reasonably clean administration in which merit rather than tribe would be the way to advancement.

A Bush victory might well have led to a decent position in his administration.

The injustices, tyrannies and (in the case of the potato famine) governmental ineptitude and niggardliness were counterpointed afterwards by an increasingly effective administration, a decent system of justice, rising living and educational standards and the steady growth of a middle class, both Catholic and Protestant.

An election is due this year, and a new administration with a decent mandate would be harder to bin than the tarnished Pakistan Peoples Party government of President Asif Ali Zardari.

The new administration has a decent record on local issues such as recycling, running the municipal crematorium well, and better financial management.

Yet, as Blinder argues persuasively, after the terrible blunder of letting Lehman Brothers collapse, both the Bush and Obama administrations did a decent job of stopping the economy's fall into depression and helping it gingerly back onto its feet.