The phrase "administration was run" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how an organization or system was managed or operated in the past.
Example: "The administration was run efficiently, ensuring that all departments met their goals and deadlines."
Alternatives: "administration was managed" or "administration was conducted".
Complicating the matter, those who prosecuted and judged him had served in the Justice Ministry during the German occupation, when the entire French administration was run by the collaborationist Vichy government of Marshal Philippe Petain.
At almost all levels, the revenue and financial administration was run by a cadre of technically proficient officials and clerks drawn mainly from Hindu service castes Kayasthas and Khatris.
THOMAS KESSNER "Fiorello H. La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York" (1989) You've got three administrations of La Guardia materials there, and it's a full picture of the way the administration was run day to day.
There was plenty of hard-hitting evidence from two former ministers reflecting how Northern Ireland's devolved administration was run prior to its collapse - scroll down to read all about it.
Bush's war, like his Administration, was run with an absence of curiosity and self-criticism, and with a projection of absolute confidence.
"I think the administration was running out of time on this," Reilly said.
Still, Mrs. Clinton's comments suggested that the administration was running out of patience with the Egyptian leader.
They spent the night out in the open," Lamichane said, adding the administration was running out of relief material.
Writing in the daily Al Ahram, itself once a staunch government mouthpiece now under new management, one columnist wrote that the university administration was running scared.
Sloan warned that Obama's administration was running out of time to fulfill his promise of shuttering Guantánamo and urged the acceleration of the transfers of approved detainees.
In the winter of 1998, an earnest Air Force lieutenant colonel who worked for the Joint Chiefs of Staff gave several national security aides at White House a dose of bad news: The administration was running out of time.
