Sentence examples for governed if from inspiring English sources

Campaign finance "reformers" think the United States would be better governed if the government could thoroughly regulate campaign speech, which is speech about the composition and comportment of the government.

If you exercise "public government," you allow the people you rule to have a say in how they are governed; if you wield "private government," the rules are not up for debate.

In fact, the question of how this enormous space comprising 27 member states should be governed if, before every decision, 27 heads of government, cabinets and parliaments have to be convinced, has answered itself.

Much of the territory is lightly governed, if at all.

Nor does it have a positive vision, or any vision, of how Iraq should be governed if the occupiers are driven out.

But it was also a time for Trumpian good deeds that allowed us a glimpse at how he might have governed if he had been shrewder — and had a genuine interest in the good that government can do.

So this prospective coalition does not quite match Brown's promise that he will only govern if he can form a stable government Brown also knows that he has to think hard about the state of public opinion.

That is how I will govern if I am fortunate enough to form a government".

That is how I will govern if I am fortunate enough to form a government in the coming days".

The Liberal Democrat leader also made it explicit for the first time that electoral reform would be an unavoidable precondition of any coalition government as he insisted that Labour will have forfeited the right to govern if it comes third.

"You can't govern if you can't win".