Sentence examples for governing reality from inspiring English sources

Her pledges were snagged on governing reality, skewered by Brussels, hung up on parliamentary arithmetic.

This ignorance has bred today's insecurity, which in turn is now a governing reality of the crisis.

As the Oxford philosopher Derek Parfit told me, when you're looking for the highest principle governing reality, there's no clear boundary between philosophy and science.

Yet experts say it appears only to scratch the surface of what Mr. Trump has pledged, and highlights the difficulty of translating campaign promises into a workable, governing reality.

Although there have been recent successes like "The Blair Witch Project," which came out of last year's Sundance festival, the governing reality for young producers and filmmakers at this level is that the economic model that sustained the American independent boom over the last decade has altered.

In 1996, in "The End of Science," Horgan suggested that "science's grand quest to uncover the basic rules governing reality might be reaching an impasse". Interviewing many of the world's most important scientists, he displayed a gift for pulling back the curtain to unveil diminutive wizards, a technique he employs adroitly in this new book.

"It is a bit of an illusion that leaders are governing realities," Mr. Peres said.

The loftiness of "Yes we can" has been obscured by the governing realities of "It's hard".

The party of government this time is Tony Blair's New Labour Party, 18 years out of office but trying to sound as sweetly reasonable as if it had been hemmed in by governing realities for the whole of that period.

That the administration would now back off that statement is another example, along with Mr. Obama's struggles to end the war in Iraq and close the prison at Guantánamo, of the difficulties of reconciling campaign promises and governing realities.

If 40 or more Democrats cast a vote of principle against Mr. Ashcroft's record, he and Mr. Bush will be on notice that sensitivity to and regard for the beliefs and rights of all Americans have to be governing realities at the Department of Justice.