He has governed during a period of relative prosperity.
He governed during a period of brutal repression of anti-apartheid activists.
She was the first woman to serve as prime minister of the country, and she governed during a period of natural disasters, economic distress, and civil unrest.
Blackburne governed during a period of political disharmony in Jamaica and one in which Great Britain saw increasing numbers of Jamaican immigrants to its shores.
With the $4 trillion package that you and Boehner once discussed long gone, will you ever be able to govern during a chapter free of limits, ceilings, boxes, constraints?
Gerald R. Ford may have governed during a time of economic stagnation, but his library has just laid claim to a cutting-edge distinction: becoming the first presidential depository to employ an official "Wikipedian in residence".
"Against Romney, Christie can say he governed during a more challenging and recent time; against Perry, he can say that his governorship has had more impact, both in terms of its formal power and its change to the state's political debate," said Ramesh Ponnuru, a writer and senior editor at the conservative National Review.
But he has governed during a phenomenal rise in oil prices, which have soared from $10 in 1998, the year before he took office, to more than $100 in recent years and the high $80s now, pouring huge amounts of revenue into Venezuela.
His political machine, though an excellent mechanism for securing power, proved to be incapable of governing during times of economic distress, such as late 1929, the eve of the Great Depression.
