"administer the affairs" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to manage or oversee the operations and activities of an organization, company, or government. Example: The newly elected president promised to efficiently administer the affairs of the country and improve the economy for the betterment of its citizens.
The Board of Directors shall administer the affairs of the Corporation fairly and impartially and without discrimination.
In the end, a compromise was reached, allowing the Patriarchate to remain but in a strictly spiritual role; it would no longer administer the affairs of local Christians.
Mr. Bakiyev's proclamations seemed to fall on deaf ears in Bishkek, where Ms. Otunbayeva announced that the interim government would administer the affairs of state for six months before the presidential election.
We will expend all our efforts to present such services among which the preparation for the transitional period whereby Iraq will have comprehensive sovereignty and will administer the affairs of the country in full freedom.
There is no clear evidence in Mufīd's writings that he regarded the jurists as possessing both the power to judge in the community and to administer the affairs of its members – that is to be a political leader.
"In the name of God the merciful, the compassionate, citizens, during these very difficult circumstances Egypt is going through, President Hosni Mubarak has decided to step down from the office of president of the republic and has charged the high council of the armed forces to administer the affairs of the country," he said.
The most famous and enduring such amphictyony, however, was the one that, originally from a distance, administered the affairs of the sanctuary of Delphi in central Greece.
He had spent nearly eight years as Governor of Illinois, administering the affairs of a state where political chicanery was as common as corn in its fields.
One thing the treaty will certainly do is relieve the Defense ept. of the staggering burden of administering the affairs of a nation of 83 million people.
While the Jordanian government ran the West Bank as a part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Egypt administered the affairs of the Gaza Strip including its water resources.
The Center serves as a forum for policy discussions and provides a venue for unbiased efforts to expand knowledge of the various governmental components, how they interact, and how they comply with their mandates in administering the affairs of state.
