'run affairs' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is managing a situation, event, or organization. For example, you could say, "The mayor is running the city's affairs with a steady hand."
In 1744, Abdul Wahhab had made a pact with the then ruler Mohammed bin Saud, allowing his family to run affairs of state while hardline clerics defined the national character.
Stories whose heroines -- girls and women, wives and spinsters, usually belonging to the families who run affairs in Southern small towns -- seem to have been born worldly, shrewd and resourcefully witty.
Worcester intend to appoint a chief executive to run affairs at Sixways.
"If they have to be played under instructions from the owner, who currently seems to see Udinese as the focus of his operations, then this would be bad and we would simply become a nursery club for Udinese". However, Fawell is hopeful that the takeover, which is expected to see Gino run affairs at Vicarage Road, will benefit the club in the long term.
Neither of us, I think, are surprised that the referendum seems likely to be a mighty close run affair.
One London-based brand that epitomises these ideals is & Daughter, which, as the name suggests, is a family run affair.
A decision against the original owner of the ihateryanair.co.uk website in 2010 was a closer run affair.
The store is a family run affair.
About half the collisions are these hit-and-run affairs.
Until the 1980s, the fruit plantations were small, family-run affairs, Ms Hernandez says.
Though there were coups, they were efficient, French-run affairs with few casualties.
