It may seem odd to start governing California as if it were a full-fledged nation; but it is surely odder to continue governing it as if it were a small 19th-century colony.
"We don't allow people to have accounts under the age of 13... Certainly your iPhone app has the same rules and conditions governing it as our website, which means that no one under the age of 13 can create an account".
He said the BBC had effectively been hamstrung by the strict rules on impartiality which govern it, which meant as soon as one campaigner said something it had to find someone to say the opposite.
CHINA'S film market may be the fastest growing in the world, but the strictures governing it appear as immovable as ever.
Hastings argued that because the Irish Free State was an independent nation the British laws governing it, such as the 1920 Act, were effectively repealed.
With his endless legal entanglements and sexual imbroglios and his colorful manner of governing (or not governing), it often feels as if the prime minister has taken all the oxygen out of the room, the airwaves, the entire republic.
Since Britain was in a state of economic war against Rhodesia, the court concluded, it could not at the same time be regarded as governing it.
ISIS has promised to govern as effectively as it intimidates, but its talent lies in extortion and ethnic cleansing, not in sanitation and job creation.
Gray Davis was unable to govern as soon as he won re-election against Bill Simon in 2002.
It's a 56-page contract with yourself stating that you are a God who is a hundred percent in charge of your own existence and can make up any rules you like to govern yourself as long as it doesn't interfere with any other God's personal laws or commands.
