The phrase "governing officials" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to individuals who hold positions of authority and responsibility in a government, such as elected officials, appointed officials, or members of a governing body. Here is an example of it being used in a sentence: "The governing officials of the city council met to discuss the proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year."
"We have been very aggressive in terms of due diligence, meeting with officials from the U.S. government and Greek governing officials," Tolbert said.
Mr. Alexander said there was also poor communication between the town's tax assessor and the governing officials, and between the governing officials and the residents.
Our governing officials often lecture to the world on human rights abuses abroad.
It is critical to have good science to inform governing officials about the proper management of natural resources.
"It's a fact that the mayors and governing officials are on the front line," Mr. Dressel said.
In the eight recalcitrant states, defiance of the Supreme Court ruling comes not just from the mob but from the highest governing officials.
The governing official of Mercyhurst College, at Erie, is Mother Borgia.
In 2000, Mr. Freedman became Premier's lead director, its second most powerful governing official after the chairman.
The MET in this category is the lexeme "prevent," which is so conventionalized that it is hardly metaphoric, as shown in (18): (18) To prevent corruption, many provincial anti-graft agencies have issued detailed rules governing official activities and behavior 29.
As the Ninth Circuit decided in United States v. Weyhrauch in 2008: Because laws governing official conduct differ from state to state, conditioning mail fraud convictions on state law means that conduct in one state might violate the mail fraud statute, whereas identical conduct in a neighboring state would not.
This governance structure is called "central government governing the officials and the local government governing the citizens" (Cao 2011).
