For more than a decade after the end of Lebanon's 15-year civil war in 1990, the country was effectively governed by a Syrian-Saudi consensus, and an entire political class, including Mr. Mikati and Mr. Hariri's father, served its interests.
As a result of these reforms, starting in the 1960s, Japan was effectively governed by a bureaucracy, while the Liberal Democratic Party ruled.
Egypt has been effectively governed by military emergency law since 1952, with Islamic militants waiting in the wings for any kind of opportunity, even as the country is rent by tensions between its majority Muslims and Coptic Christian minority.
In Mitt Romney's world, people say things like, " I'm not concerned about the very poor," and "corporations are people, my friend!" His wife may have just given the common people another glimpse of it, but Mitt Romney's world is nothing like the one in which we live and our nation cannot be effectively governed from it.
In order to improve on the current state of MNCH in rural Africa, the available health workforce needs to be effectively governed through strong policies.
In some current cases, such as Somaliland, the only bit of Somalia that is now effectively governed, a long period of successful autonomy may conceivably lead to its gradual acceptance as a sovereign state.
The FCC was effectively left without rules to govern the internet in January after a court defeat in a case against Verizon, which challenged the agency's powers to regulate the web.
Between 1939 and 1945, Britain was governed by what was effectively a dictatorship wielding unimaginable powers, including comprehensive censorship, the power to requisition private property on demand, and so on.
I think that there will be a vacuum that will last months, a year at the most, where the Chinese are not effectively governing Tibet.
It now transmits all the week's Champions League games, bar one, and only because that was effectively reserved for ITV by European football's governing body Uefa.
For Egypt's new president, the dilemma quickly became an early test of the Brotherhood's ability to balance domestic political pressures, international commitments and its conservative religious mandate now that it is also effectively governing in a new democracy.
