Sentence examples for was governing for from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday, David Cameron and Clegg admitted the effort to eradicate the deficit might take as long as seven years, and conceded parts of the country did not yet feel the coalition was governing for them.

Giles, in his first outing said he was governing for all Territorians.

Sousa landed in Brazil in 1549 and founded Salvador (Bahia), a capital from which Brazil was governed for 214 years.

The country was governed for three decades by repressive military regimes until it returned to democratic rule in 1985.

Only 26% of respondents thought that their country was governed for the benefit of all, rather than that of a few powerful groups.

After the country was governed for a brief period by a parliamentary system, a military coup led by Gen. Park Chung-Hee displaced the government in May 1961.

Asked about the scores of errors in the English edition of his book -- Johnson wrote, among other things, that Thomas Edison invented the telephone and that California was governed for years by "Pete Brownn -- Johnson professes no concern.

From here, a subcontinent was governed for almost a century".

The land to the south of Severin was governed for Bulgaria by the despot of Vidin, Michael Shishman, a supporter of Csanád.

Answering another question about low levels of housebuilding, May said she would head "a government who will be governing for everybody in this country".

He railed coolly against the "cozy and sometimes corrupt relationship" between oil companies and the government, despite the fact that his administration had been governing for more than a year.