Sentence examples for govern directly from inspiring English sources

Unlike the men of Athens or the small male aristocracy of Venice, obviously the men of England could not govern directly in an assembly.

He said he thought that Islamic clerics drew their authority from their followers as well as from God, and that while they should possess wide influence, they should not govern directly.

The generals are not eager to govern directly and they fear Western censure (and the possible cessation of American military aid), as well as the Islamists' continuing political power, as demonstrated by ongoing pro-Morsi protests.

A republic is a system in which voters do not govern directly, but select representatives to speak for them.

Before 1989 the Australian Capital Territory was governed directly by the federal government, though there were partly or wholly elected advisory bodies at various times from the 1930s.

While MacArthur developed a large General Headquarters in Tokyo to carry out occupation policy, supported by local "military government" teams, Japan, unlike Germany, was not governed directly by foreign troops.

The army clearly remains uncomfortable about governing directly.

From 1978 it was governed directly by South Africa, which retained the exclave after Namibia reached independence in 1990.

In Zagreb, the new Society for Yugoslav Democratic Initiative has proposed that Kosovo should be governed directly by the federation.

The centre of the lower kingdoms was ancient Babylonia, called Beth Aramaye in Aramaic, and it was governed directly by the Parthian ruler.

The model suggests that the functions of the cells, organs and systems of an organism can be monitored, controlled and governed directly by means of nano-computers.