Sentence examples for governing us from inspiring English sources

Most insidiously, corporations increasingly control our economies and the entities we call governments, thus governing us indirectly when they are not governing us directly.

The point of the act is to enable the public to understand better how those in authority are governing us.

Barack Obama will not tighten the rules governing US drone strikes ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration, the Guardian has learned.

We get to know the rules, so we can find ways to work through our lives and figure out who should be governing us and how.

"I have a feeling there is an undercurrent of sympathy that is being underestimated," said Christian Meurer, a political satirist and author of a recent book, "The Wackos Who Are Governing Us" ("Die Irren, die uns Regieren").

"The fact that we human beings – who are ourselves mere collections of fundamental particles of nature – have been able to come this close to an understanding of the laws governing us and our universe is a great triumph".

At a time when it's often hard to feel anything but cynicism about those who govern us and about government itself, we were just treated to something that looks, to these eyes, like leadership — and maybe even bravery.

When Google's Android powers so much of our everyday life, the government's temptation to govern us through remotely controlled cars and alarm-operated soap dispensers will be all too great.

Rose declares that we even 'have the right, as governed subjects' to contest the practices that govern us in the name of freedom (ibid.: 59 60).

And do those supporting his extradition to Sweden care if he is then extradited to the US and tortured for telling the public what we need to know about those who govern us?

Fear of entrails governed us.