Sentence examples for image of governing from inspiring English sources

President Nixon's reaffirmation of the doctrine of credibility disclosed in his foreign policy a practice that had come to govern most of his domestic policies: the practice of subordinating the substance of governing to the image of governing.

Some officials say privately that such tactics are damaging the image of the governing party and of the country, which once was one of the continent's most promising and prosperous nations.

Justice O'Connor, since her retirement, has made similar warnings about an elected judiciary: in a speech last year, she said that electing judges fosters a public image of courtrooms governed by "politicians in robes".

James Parrott, an economist at the Fiscal Policy Institute, the New York-based think tank that first spotlighted the yacht tax break, derided this "three men in a room" style of governing, invoking an image of Cuomo, Skelos, and (formerly) Silver drafting the state budget behind closed doors, presumably handing out pet projects to whoever donated the most.

I too have seen the images and heard the words of a new kind of governing body; I question their commitment to the inhabitants of this planet.

What about the actual business of governing?

Now the messy task of governing begins.

They're a flawed way of governing.

Bit of governing yet to do.

But not through any act of governing.

Call it the "audacity of governing".