Sentence examples for governed- from inspiring English sources

"Wycliffe's words were the precursor to an extraordinary transformation, a change in technology that redefined the relationship between the governing and the governed," said Carswell.

'Ultimately, we need to balance the various elements in a way which works, in a way which creates clear accountability between those who govern and those who are governed, which protects rights and respect for the law.' It is hard work trying to make yourself heard when you have been so comprehensively trounced after so long in office.

The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'consent of the governed' is meaningless".

The result was illegal, of course, but it was also something of great value, produced cooperatively, and built in naked opposition to the expectations of in-kind reward that supposedly governed human behaviour in the capitalist age.

The north has always been a remote and poorly governed area, with an underlying level of corruption," he told AFP. "Some district police and border guards are being paid off, some even rent out their own firearms".

While the lives of American women are less governed by conflict, they still find ways of using their nakedness for political gain.

Lincoln's words speak clearly to those of us who are from countries, however benignly governed, in which all men are not deemed to be equal.

Furthermore, Labour's devolution proposals address the biggest reason for discontent in both countries: that for 18 years they returned large Labour majorities in general election after general election, but nonetheless ended up being governed by Conservative politicians.This state of affairs should have provided fertile ground for the nationalist parties to hoe.

His biggest strategic miscalculation was not to use the leverage he had over George Bush as the only substantial western ally to join the 2003 invasion – the "coalition of the willing" – to extract a better plan for the occupation of Saddam Hussein's ill-governed state once the fighting was over (even sooner than expected).

In the richer, well-governed states such as Lagos, where the commercial capital city is located, progress is visible.

Botswana is an honest, well-governed and, by African standards, wealthy country.