Sentence examples for if governing from inspiring English sources

Conservatives exercise that control for the simple reason that they don't believe that government should serve public needs, that instead government should be privatized and shrunk to fit in a bathtub, as if governing would disappear with government.

Yet if governing in hard times was bad, he went on, securing the right to govern was worse.

The Texas Legislature's biennial 20-week session will start on Tuesday, and it feels upside down, as if governing the state is an interruption of the normal business of politics.

The maximum ban Suarez could face if governing body Fifa takes retrospective action is 24 matches or two years.

To qualify for the 'superlicence' required to race in F1, De Silvestro will have to complete 300km of testing in an F1 car, although there are provisions to waive that if governing body the FIA considers a driver has proven their capabilities in a suitable category.

Oh how fair and efficient the world would be if governing were based on reason and measurement.

Meanwhile, Schnitzler's own works pop in and out of print every thirty years or so, as if governed by some sort of literary Kondratieff wave.

As if governed by a law of physics, that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, the Police Department has stood unyieldingly at 180 degrees from its opponents, refusing to give an inch.

The moral sense, if governed by the "natural perceptions of the understanding," ought to influence our actions — it is a necessary component in creating moral obligation.

But it is a powerful tool and -- if governed by rules that channel its power in useful ways -- it can help solve our toughest challenges.

Conway subsequently opined in June 2009 that video lottery terminals would be legal if governed by the Kentucky Lottery Corporation and in January 2010 that instant racing would be allowable under the state's parimutuel betting statutes with a few regulatory changes.