Sentence examples for were being governed from inspiring English sources

Mahmoud Othman, a member of the constitutional committee in Baghdad, said US and UK officials were being governed by their domestic agendas.

He accused the council of a "serious failure" in supporting schools in protecting children from extremism - and attacked them for a "lack of urgency" in tackling concerns about how schools were being governed.

In Iraq and Afghanistan, "the United States neglected efforts to ensure that the government was seen as legitimate by the bulk of the population, that people felt they had effective input in the way they were being governed," said Chayes, a former special assistant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff who has spent most of the last decade in Afghanistan.

SP: Yes, I mean...the problem is that Syria is being governed by a minority government, and they don't like decisions.

Smith said:  I believe people in our industry have long been under the impression that government access to user data was being governed by the law and legal process.

I am extremely concerned about how it is being governed.

"Our country is being governed by clowns and crooks.

"Right now Turkey is being governed by nationalists.

You are being governed by a filthy-minded sex obsessive!

He also lamented: "We're being governed by immigrants and children of immigrants at all levels".

"We all depend on newspapers and television for information about how we are being governed.