Sentence examples for fail to govern from inspiring English sources

What Wardak and other Afghan leaders apparently fail to appreciate is that no "iron mountain" of weapons, however large or expensive, is sufficient to protect their government if they fail to govern well.

"Why did the SPLM fail to govern South Sudan even though it had all the money and 70% of the power?" he asked.

Nor does Frank's analysis adequately explore the possibility that Republicans pay a political price when they fail to govern competently, even though that seems to explain the way elections have been going since 2006.

Western countries should make plain that an independent Kurdistan will get no help if it stirs up secessionist Kurds across its border.As for Iraq's Arabs, the longer they fail to govern their bit of the country the less right they have to stop the Kurds governing theirs.

Despite the special inalienable nature of our authority over ourselves, it is possible for us to fail to govern ourselves, just as it is possible for a political leader to fail to govern those who fall within her domain.

But on this account, we fail to govern ourselves when we fail to respond to these reasons only because responding to these reasons just is responding to demands we impose on ourselves.

The U.S. military's mission will be undermined so long as the Afghan government fails to govern.

Were there inherent flaws in him that governed, or failed to govern, his actions?

Mr Yushchenko, who spectacularly failed to govern the country well, has been kicked out.

"When a party fails to govern, it fails electorally," said Rahm Emanuel, a former Clinton aide who now is Mr. Obama's chief of staff.

Mr. Sabahi argued in the interview that although Mr. Morsi won election democratically, he has failed to govern as a democrat.