Sentence examples for managed affairs from inspiring English sources
A notable exception was Demetrius Cydones who, like Michael Psellus, managed affairs of state for a number of emperors for close to 50 years.
During Octavian's absence from Rome after Actium, Agrippa managed affairs in the city together with Maecenas, the great patron of poets.
More recently, at a time of falling P.C. sales, it had still managed affairs so that its overall business grew, partly by creating new products, such as the Xbox gaming console, but also by building upon its existing relationships with corporations, which were always Microsoft's biggest customer, and supplying them with new technology and services.
The prefect kept a staff of hundreds and managed affairs in all segments of government: in taxation, administration, jurisprudence, and minor military commands, the praetorian prefect was often second only to the emperor himself.
With others like Nathaniel Fiennes, he represented a younger generation of Puritans in the leadership of the Long Parliament that effectively managed affairs: as identified by Clarendon in his history, these included Hampden, Pym, and Oliver St John in the Commons, and Earl of Bedford and Viscount Saye and Sele in the Lords.
Banking remains, with few (mainly foreign-owned) exceptions, a woefully undercapitalised and badly managed affair.
The campaign stump, by its very nature, is a scripted and tightly managed affair.
But it was a cynically managed affair that gave way to bitterness when it ended, and led the Chinese to think, in the 1970s, that the Soviet Union, rather than America, constituted the greatest threat to their country.
Yet it is reasonable to ask if Cheney's faith in companies like Halliburton contributed to his conviction that the occupation of Iraq would be a tidy, easily managed affair.
Though the battle that began on September 5 off the Virginia Capes was not a skillfully managed affair, Graves had the worst of it and retired to New York, thus sealing the fate of Cornwallis's army at Yorktown.
It manages affairs with the same heavy-handed approach that the party brings to all things.
