Sentence examples for poor governing from inspiring English sources

Her campaign focused on the poor governing performance of the KMT, that party's increasingly cordial relations with China, and the continued poor performance of Taiwan's economy.

Mr. Spitzer, who took office in January, has cited that deal as a prime example of poor governing, of spending based on political deals rather than on the public good.

This election was never going to be easy for the Awami Party, which has already attracted sharp criticism for poor governing skills and corruption while in office — deficiencies that analysts, and some party insiders, say will hurt it during the balloting.

Republicans painted the bill as a response to poor governing on Obama's part.

Opposition leaders accuse Mr. Chávez, who promises to improve the lives of the poor, of governing like a dictator and mismanaging Venezuela, Latin America's fourth-largest economy.

Optimists in the West are fond of pointing out that if Islamists do a poor job governing, they will be voted out of office.

The Philippines is overwhelmingly a land of poor people governed by an entrenched elite.

As for that supposed "class war," the last time anyone looked, the poor were governed by the same constitutional imperatives as the rich.

The Ganges River runs through five separate states, each of them poor, each governed by a different political party, each rife with corruption.

Then a popular film actor broke away and started a party, ostensibly for the poor, that governed the state for many years.

The rule, which was mandated by a law co-sponsored by former Republican Senator Richard Lugar, of Indiana, and Democratic Senator Ben Cardin, of Maryland, was designed to combat bribery and corruption, especially in poor countries governed by kleptocrats.