Sentence examples for governing against from inspiring English sources

"This government is governing against its own citizens.

Now Obama is governing against Bush, and he's still got a good excuse: there's no other choice.

Left-wing Green politician Eva Joly denounced Mr Hollande's and Mr Valls's economic policies, arguing they were "governing against their majority".

This president and his party are governing against us.

Governing against the will of the people is sure to bring down approval ratings further.

That really sums up the contradictions Hugo Chavez embodied: an enemy of intermediate entities who however never crossed the line of governing against the people.

No one, it seems, can govern against the unions.

Habeas corpus, which governs against unlawful detention, has before now been applied only to humans.

The king appointed the ministers, but it was difficult for them to govern against the express wish of the chambers.

"Cowardly, ossified officials began again to govern against the population," he wrote in the prologue to Turandot.

The prime minister could explain how the convention enshrines British values and shields the governed against abuses of power by their governors.