Sentence examples for had never governed from inspiring English sources

We had never governed behavior exclusively with policies and procedures.

"Unlike all the others, he had never governed," Mr. Dorneanu said, "so the voters saw him as clean.

It has no sins and no failures to its account in the work of government because it has never governed, and it has no tradition of long political rivalry to divide it from either of its chief competitors.

"I've never governed by consensus and I don't believe we can," Kernes said.

These problems afflict every corner of Colombia by virtue of the simple fact that the central government has never really governed much of this country, a land of towering mountains, jungles and wide-open plains twice the size of France.

The Brothers had never actually helped govern the country, but they knew how to run election campaigns, and years of effective charity work had taught them how to organize at the grassroots level.

The FN has never before governed any French region.

"I have never been governed by polls," Mr. Giuliani said.

It's important to remember, though, that pure populism has never really governed in this country.

More importantly, proprietary culture has never yet governed any creative economy, anywhere.

This was true in 2008, when President Obama easily brushed aside questions about his having never actually governed anything, and we saw it again in the midterm elections that swept a raft of novices into Congress.