Sentence examples for rational government from inspiring English sources

We like to believe we are part of an educated society who expect to be governed by rational government policies.

It is felt by liberal Tories and swing voters who just pine for competent, rational government.

Colbert's reorganization generally gave New France firm and rational government, which was strongly centralized and efficient for the times.

At the very moment Democrats would like a quality person to reaffirm their faith in rational government, Buttigieg comes along.

She added: "Frankly, it's very corrupt... no rational government, looking at the interests of the citizenry as a whole, would do this".

More widely, any sensible, rational government will do everything in its power to get more people cycling, not to put pointless bureaucratic obstacles in their way.

Rational governments such as those in Canada, Australia and Great Britain have long since moved to dollar (or pound) coins without bringing on the end of days, but our government flees in terror from anything that smacks of change, no matter how innocuous it might be.

"The market is rational; the government's dumb".

"Every policy of any rational, constructive government is always under review, of course," he told parliament.

In fact, in an era of direct democracy run amok, with voters being presented with extreme propositions that no rational state government would wish to embrace, a Supreme Court decision on who can carry the ball into federal court is probably overdue.

The New Yorker, November 20, 2000 P. 102 Briefly Noted review of "Persian Mirrors" (Free Press; $26) by Elaine Sciolino... Sciolino is hopeful, if not certain, that Iranians can work their way to the rational, respectable government they deserve, and her intelligence and style convey exactly what's at stake.