Sentence examples for govern given from inspiring English sources

For Schumpeter, in other words, democracy combines autonomous governance by leaders and elites with time-limited mandates to govern given by the voting public in periodic elections.

However, following an extended period of political moderation throughout Europe, the very idea of extremist governments ruling much of Europe in the future, and their ability to govern -- given their presumed inability to establish and maintain meaningful coalitions -- is very much in question, raising the concept of political instability to a whole new level.

There's scarcely a country to govern, given how far European integration on the one hand and national devolution on the other have gone.

Q. Do you have any concerns about your ability to govern given that Gore won the popular vote? A. I think they're still counting the popular vote.

Why else would you govern, given what we are facing; what else would you put as the number one priority?

But it remains to be seen if they can successfully govern given how much the system has changed since then.

Studies and focus groups have shown that people like ads that are based on policy, factually accurate and that forecast how a candidate would govern, giving them a reason to vote for a candidate -- as well as a reason to vote against the opponent.

As John Locke, whose philosophy guided our nation's founders, wrote in his Second Treatise of Government, people agree to be governed, giving up absolute freedom to do as they please, because a society in which there are no regulations is a dangerous place, a "state of nature," where everyone is vulnerable.

"Nothing has disappointed me more than what's happened over the last five weeks, to watch the president of the United States give up on governing, give up on leading and spend full-time campaigning," Mr. Boehner said during a public forum in Washington.

He thinks Bloomberg's elevated "30,000-foot model" of governing gave his subordinates too much independence, allowed agencies to pursue their own agendas, and deprived the mayor of a "feedback loop" that would have made him more sensitive to public discontent.

The Mutiny Act, without displacing the Articles of War and those Military Tribunals under which the army had hitherto been governed, gave statutory sanction to the infliction of Capital Punishments for offences rather Political than Military, and which had rarely been so punished under Prerogative authority". Clode 9-10.