Sentence examples for governed them from inspiring English sources

In 1938, after the first Nationalist battlefield victory, China's people for the first time began to care who governed them.

Bush is betting his presidency on the Iraqis and their ability to govern themselves better than we governed them.

Such behaviors are not well-worn grooves in our minds, but actions we could easily alter if the laws or customs that governed them should change.

"I was struck by the cosmopolitanism of urban Iranians, their education, open-mindedness and their humorous irreverence for the religious regime which governed them".

In novels like "Divided Heaven," "The Quest for Christa T.," "Cassandra" and "A Model Childhood," she wrote about characters, largely women, whose daily lives were deeply colored by the political systems that governed them.

A record 16 candidates qualified for the first round, including three from the hard left and two from the far right, reflecting French voters' disaffection with the mainstream socialist and Gaullist movements that have governed them for 40 years.

An advocate of devolution of power, he continues: "England is beset by a toxic disconnection between the governed and those who govern them.

The Culture is a mature civilisation, spanning much of the galaxy, which doesn't just include AIs but is, in effect, governed by them.

And a question: when is parliament going to be allowed to scrutinise and then decide whether to ratify treaties as more and more of what we do is governed by them?

An earlier study indicated that although factors on autosome 3 were very important in the overall level of permethrin resistance in ALHF house flies [ 26], the resistance in ALHF governed by them was not suppressed by PBO [ 26].

And American aid is not concentrated on countries with good economic policies: its measly African aid budget is scattered across numerous countries, many of them badly governed.