Sentence examples for governing ourselves from inspiring English sources

We won't have a government of, by and for the people until we take responsibility for governing ourselves.

That is the positive and optimistic case for Britain leaving the EU and becoming an independent country, trading with Europe, but governing ourselves.

"Our people need to see we are governing ourselves and are not simply subcontractors for Israeli security," Prime Minister Fayyad told me.

In any case we need to stop fighting the French Revolution and focus on the hard work of governing ourselves with the democratic system we have so successfully built.

Seidman offers nothing to suggest how we might go about governing ourselves once liberated from the Constitution, the skeletal structure that frames a living conversation about our relationship with government, not blind worship of "a poetic piece of parchment".

Mr. Cheney described the Democratic proposals for middle-class tax cuts and increased spending on education and health care as "an old way of governing ourselves, of high levels of spending, high taxes, an ever more intrusive bureaucracy".

But today, in this world, given the leadership of other societies, much needs be done to change the way we govern ourselves and the way our government functions.

"We just want to govern ourselves and our homeland, and that government will still be under the republic of the Philippines.

"The federal government needs to respect our ability to govern ourselves, our land and who we are," he said.  .

And Michael Bratman (2009c) has recently suggested that we have a reason to be instrumentally coherent as such because doing so is a necessary, constitutive component of self-governance, and we have an intrinsic reason to govern ourselves.

How should we govern ourselves and how do we judge what makes government successful?