Sentence examples for task of governing from inspiring English sources

Military officials have often complained that the weak and corrupt Afghan government is not adequate to the task of governing.

Governments "do business by breaking the task of governing up into several subject-specific portfolios (defense, finance, transportation, health, education, and so on) and assigning responsibility for each portfolio to specific individuals" and departments.

Local government, understood as a set of public institutions with the task of governing in the local sphere, is one of the components of a complex mechanism of regulation composed on many local actors (institutions and others) interrelated with each other, for which the notion of governance is used nowadays with increasing frequency.

Having effectively shelved their manifestos, having disorientated the electorate and the punditry, this government will have no period of grace to adjust to the task of governing.

Now the messy task of governing begins.

The task of governing required New Labour to make concessions.

And that will make the task of governing hugely difficult".

The Ryan call comes as GOP leaders find themselves trapped between proving that they can complete basic tasks of governing such as funding the government, while also meeting the demands of Trump, who is looking for a legislative win ahead of his 100th day in office next Saturday.

A government shutdown would further expose Republicans as incapable of coalescing for the most basic tasks of governing.

Yet in two areas where he is unambiguously in charge the federal health-care exchange and the NSA he seems bored by the daily tasks of governing and reluctant to question those who work for him.

But Mr. Foster's detractors — the six other members of the Town Council, the town manager and the police chief — say that it is Mr. Foster, more interested in destroying the town than in focusing on the often mundane tasks of governing it, who has stepped over the line.