Yes, Obama hasn't governed as the idealistic outsider of 2008; he has governed to get things done.
No reasonable person would approve a seriously flawed charter that would significantly change how the city is governed in order to get these relatively small and speculative cost savings.
He believes there will "more than one" Para-athlete at the 2016 Olympics and warned the IAAF, athletics' governing body, to "get their rules ready".
Angela Merkel has returned to the German parliament's governing benches to get to work on an in-tray overflowing with domestic and geopolitical problems after six months of fraught coalition building following September's federal elections.
In much the same way that UK Sport expects medals for its money at the elite end, Sport England is very clearly saying it wants governing bodies to get serious about raising the heart rates of more of us, more often.
"Lets face it we know we've made some mistakes our biggest mistake was coming in this year and trying to govern, trying to get things passed... Republicans said 'wait a minute they are actually doing things, we should figure out a way to stop them.' And they did".
"There needs to be a bipartisan governing session to get the people's business done," said Senator Malcolm A. Smith, the Democratic leader, at a news conference after the meeting.
Some of the 50 people who lost their jobs have initiated legal action against Meléndez-Ortiz and the Governing Board to get severance pay.
Nor is it just a question of a governing party failing to get its way.
And even when swimming's governing body decided to get serious and create some actual limits on suit technology, it still allowed a world championship to go on in Rome with the soon-to-be-banned technology.
