Sentence examples for to govern to from inspiring English sources

DENNY FREIDENRICH Laguna Beach, Calif., Nov. 22, 2011 To the Editor: Our representatives are elected not only to represent their constituents' will but also to govern — to do the hard work of understanding the complexity of national governance and to exercise judgment on their constituents' behalf to get the nation's work done.

He believed in "the master race, in the mission, in Germany's vocation, in those called upon to govern, to dictate".

"We're too outnumbered to govern, to set policy," said Representative John Fleming, a Louisiana Republican who has taken confrontational postures in the past.

"This decree is for matters of extreme emergency," Mr. Cebrián said during an interview from the Grupo Prisa headquarters in Madrid, adding, "I don't believe that this law should be used to govern to favor friends".

They are pragmatists, not ideologues; they tend to govern to the center rather than to their base; and they are very much focused on asking what's the problem and how do we fix it".

Then he went on to say, "But Bradley has said, 'I want to run a campaign as an extension of the way I want to govern, to restore trust and bring back civility.' And if you say that, you have to operate that way.

Government aides describe a president determined not only to govern but also to modernise the government.

The business of governments has always been to govern, not to act morally.

The basic function of government (i.e. to govern) has been brought to a grinding halt.

And I wonder whether it might be best to leave governing to others and stick to prescribing chemotherapy.

Hughes wants Woodward to admit that Obama has governed to the left of where he campaigned.