Sentence examples for had not governed from inspiring English sources

Too busy adjusting to what voters wanted, it had not governed with a sense of higher purpose.Interviewed near the end, in his sunny villa by Regent's Park, he felt he could apply some of those conclusions to himself.

In separate testimony, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell dismissed the notion that Mr. Aristide had been forced out, instead characterizing him as a flawed leader who had not governed democratically.

Similarly, when I called Ben Wattenberg and told him that I should have governed more like a President and less like a prime minister, I didn't mean that I hadn't governed like a President.

In 2000, Mr Bush also ran as a different, more inclusive Republican; but he has not governed that way.

"But more importantly," he said, "a majority that will help us govern in the way that we have not governed in a long time, a majority that will actually deliver on the promises of health care".

Now the business-oriented rightwing Liberal party, which has not governed alone since the 1880s, will have to try to reach agreement with the anti-capitalist Flemish and Francophone Green parties to form an administration.

Now the business-oriented rightwing Liberal party, which has not governed alone since the 1880s, will have to try to form a coaltion with the anti-capitalist Flemish and Francophone Green parties.

Violence also marred the 1994 Quidditch World Cup in the UK, when supporters of Lord Voldemort caused mayhem on Dartmoor Just like Sepp Blatter – the colourful president of football's world governing body Fifa – the head of the International Confederation of Wizards Quidditch Committee has not governed without controversy.

Yet they have not governed in the last two years.

Yes, Obama hasn't governed as the idealistic outsider of 2008; he has governed to get things done.

It is ironic in the extreme that a guy who hasn't governed that well, and who is not particularly popular in his own country, should be able to catapult himself, and France, into the key leadership position in Europe.