As the Oxford philosopher Derek Parfit told me, when you're looking for the highest principle governing reality, there's no clear boundary between philosophy and science.
Although there have been recent successes like "The Blair Witch Project," which came out of last year's Sundance festival, the governing reality for young producers and filmmakers at this level is that the economic model that sustained the American independent boom over the last decade has altered.
Trump's vow to end DACA has become a classic case of campaign promises meeting governing reality.
"We see many elements of our governing reality that feel rigged to people, and in fact often are rigged," de Blasio said, acknowledging a buzzword that has become prominent in the populist wave at the forefront of the 2016 presidential election.
"It is a bit of an illusion that leaders are governing realities," Mr. Peres said.
The loftiness of "Yes we can" has been obscured by the governing realities of "It's hard".
The party of government this time is Tony Blair's New Labour Party, 18 years out of office but trying to sound as sweetly reasonable as if it had been hemmed in by governing realities for the whole of that period.
That the administration would now back off that statement is another example, along with Mr. Obama's struggles to end the war in Iraq and close the prison at Guantánamo, of the difficulties of reconciling campaign promises and governing realities.
If 40 or more Democrats cast a vote of principle against Mr. Ashcroft's record, he and Mr. Bush will be on notice that sensitivity to and regard for the beliefs and rights of all Americans have to be governing realities at the Department of Justice.
The Clinton campaign is focused on highlighting her progressive positions while also showing that she is the best-equipped to turn campaign proposals into governing realities.
BERLIN, Oct. 4 - Politically the phrase "Soviet satellite" would seem to be plucked from the ashcan of history, but political theory does not always govern economic reality.
