Sentence examples for rather than governing from inspiring English sources

But Morsi proved more interested in consolidating the Brotherhood's grip on government rather than governing himself, and he drove Egypt into a dead end — so dead that Egyptians took to the streets on June 30 and virtually begged the military to oust Morsi.

A Scottish government minister has accused opposition politicians of treating the devolution of welfare powers to Holyrood as a "political football" following a row over whether the Scottish government is seeking to delay the process because it prefers "moaning rather than governing".

For some time, Mr Bondevik's crew have been administering rather than governing.

Rather than governing, he reigns above party while "Brazil is on automatic pilot," says Gaudêncio Torquato, a political consultant in São Paulo.

"As more money is dropped into the political process it has become a self-perpetuating cycle, requiring politicians to spend ever more time seeking donations rather than governing.

Elsewhere, Machiavelli tells how, having taken control of Romagna, Cesare found existing rulers "had been stripping the people of their wealth rather than governing them".

Following the example of Mr Moi's cronies, too many of the new ruling elite are out to get rich, rather than govern.

If your primary purpose in life is to get re-elected, rather than govern effectively, then people's views on issues don't matter if they vote for you anyway.

And then the idea of the mayor as an incarnational figure reached its high point under Dinkins, who often seemed to preside over the city, elegantly and with infinite forbearance, rather than govern it.

The White House's goal is to show voters that Mr. Obama is willing to engage Republicans rather than govern in a partisan manner while forcing Republicans to make substantive compromises or be portrayed as obstructionist given their renewed power to block almost all legislation in the Senate.

We don't need this transcript to see that Turnbull's rationality doesn't trump (forgive the pun) the strange vacancy at the heart of the prime minister's operation: the urgent always crowding out the important, the sense of near permanent siege, the persistent instinct to look for fixes rather than govern from a settled set of principles.