Sentence examples for barely governed from inspiring English sources

The country is vast (five times bigger than Iraq), thickly forested, barely governed and practically roadless.

The Chesapeake Bay became a barely governed swarm of semi-independent tobacco fiefs, owned by families, operated by squads of indentured servants, all squabbling with one another, Protestants against Catholics, English against other Europeans, everyone against Indians.

On to Sinai a wild, long-neglected and barely governed peninsula on the eastern border where the only stable source of income is the smuggling of weapons to Gaza and African immigrants to Israel by the local Bedu tribes.

It would be encouraging if the Democratic presidential candidate did indeed attempt to learn something from Europe's democratic, and barely socialist, governing left concerning the welfare of those who are not super-rich, i.e., how to provide quality health care and education for all--but that is not what is happening.

It could well also lose elections in Assam and Kerala next year, leaving it to govern barely 7% of India's people.

You have to choose what to take with you and what to leave behind, because you can't take everything".Half a century ago, all six of the desert monarchies that make up the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) were wretchedly poor, thinly populated and so loosely governed they could barely claim the status of nations.

Voters threw out the Liberal Democratic Party LDPP) that had governed Japan with barely a break from 1955 to 2009, ending a de-facto one-party system.The DPJ's chosen prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, badly fluffed the party's first nine months in office, but hopes picked up in June when Naoto Kan took his place.

Land acquisition and disposal are governed by archaic laws, barely enforced, which hinder investment.

Professionals such as doctors and teachers earn a fraction of what they would get in the West, yet food and utility bills are now barely cheaper.Mr Orban recently claimed that he governed "ten million freedom fighters".

In the eight years that Italy was governed by the chirpy billionaire, its economy barely grew at all.

Barely half of all Spaniards back the two parties that have governed for three decades: the ruling People's Party (PP) of Mariano Rajoy or the opposition Socialists.