This enormous area was difficult to govern from the territorial capital in the Willamette valley.
The sheer size of the newly conquered lands made it difficult to govern through the Tang military garrisons.
"It is very difficult to govern Rome if the government is against you," he says.
"Win or lose, he realized that it was going to be very difficult to govern and that the better part of valor was to step aside," said David R. Gergen, director of the university's Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Geography was another; Lima's position along the western coast of South America limited effective communication with Spain, and the rigours of the terrain (the Andes Mountains) made Peru very difficult to govern.
In her view Machiavelli's focus on a state that is the most difficult to govern does provide useful guidance for achieving stability, but affords little for how to proceed in governing a stable state.
Rulers are too fond of action and therefore the people are difficult to govern.
This independent attitude was profound enough in Tallahatchie County that it earned the nickname "The Freestate of Tallahatchie", according to a former sheriff, "because people here do what they damn well please", making the county often difficult to govern.
Sutherland offered to resign in a letter to the chair Ursula Lidbetter -herself promoted once the bank's problems were exposed – on a point of principle that the Group was too difficult to govern.
As the Roman empire became increasingly difficult to govern, there was a strong motive for those in power to find an ideological force that could hold the people under imperial control.
