Sentence examples for governed state from inspiring English sources

A better governed state is the limit of the achievable.

So we have to abandon the notion that we can make Afghanistan into a well governed state, with gender aware citizens and European standard human rights.

We do not, after all, pick it up because it might come in handy when we seize power or attempt to do so; we pick it up and read it because it gives us a clear insight into the minds of our own rulers, and also warns them that a badly governed state will eventually collapse on top of them.

The young and well-educated, who have the greatest stake in a more efficient and better governed state, are leaving.

The government accuses Mr. Abdullah and his followers of seeking to "establish a separate Sharia-law governed state within the United States".

Remind Catholics that the state of Israel is a democratically governed nation state.

Piracy can become endemic in weakly governed states but rarely takes root in ones where the state has completely collapsed.

Instead, they blame a political battle for control over resources in one of Africa's most weakly governed states.

In both regions, American officials are responding to fears that crackdowns in more direct staging points for smuggling — like Mexico and Spain — have prompted traffickers to move into smaller and weakly governed states, further corrupting and destabilizing them.

If this is to be a meaningful step toward more equitably governed states and a more reliably rules-based international system, then we have to first agree what it is we are actually talking about — particularly in this forum, as it will likely become an important platform for donor funding.

And unlike those countries, Ghana enjoys a reputation as one of Africa's best governed states.