Sentence examples for 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".

It's a lot more like gardening than governing.

Mr. McCain clearly has more political than governing aims.

Mr Maduro may find that winning the election is easier than governing.

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

Voters might just as easily conclude that Democrats would rather carp than govern.

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.

This compound is extractable to the membrane plasticizer; the electrode potential is than governed by the extraction principles.