Sentence examples for governmental functioning from inspiring English sources

Among his ministers, he subtly established competing power factions a stratagem that had the ultimate effect of retarding governmental functioning and bureaucratic modernization.

"This is a governmental function," Mr. Stockton said.

Provincial authorities are responsible for local governmental functions.

We should be doing as our founders did to ensure governmental function in event of calamity.

But Rippington's lawyers say Locog is carrying out a governmental function in organising the Olympics.

These assumed governmental functions and kept strict accounts of income and disbursement.

It no longer has a governmental function and is retained purely as a geographic name.

An inevitable consequence of the expansion of governmental functions has been the rise of bureaucracy.

And existing legal bans on the use of contractors to perform "inherently governmental functions" are also evaded.

"Emergency response is always something that I've thought was an appropriate governmental function," he said.

For instance, medieval empires had limited and decentralized governments performing only a few basic governmental functions.