Sentence examples for when it governs from inspiring English sources
"By signing this bill, President Obama is abandoning our founding principle that government governs best when it governs closest to the people".
1. Labour wins when it governs from the centre.
As California's pre-eminent historian, Kevin Starr, observes, "it is not surprising that an organisation set up to look after fewer than a million people should have a collective political nervous breakdown when it governs something almost 40 times that size".The same argument could be applied to the United States as a whole.
You know that conservative worldview is dominant in our society not just when it governs Washington (including the fiscal policy of a Democratic president) but when it seeps into your own, otherwise-devoutly progressive home and you don't even realize it.
In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt became the leader of a nation that for half a century believed government was best when it governed least.
IN THE old days, during the 70 years when it governed Mexico, the rules of power and policymaking were simple for the Institutional Revolutionary Party PRIInstitutional Revolutionary Party PRI
Palmerston was prime minister of the same medium-sized country when it governed the largest empire in history.In the post-war years various statesmen have sought to define Britain's post-imperial identity.
It is particularly good in showing the strategic support, alternating with brutal repression, that Britain lent the nationalist aspirations of both Jews and Arabs during and especially after World War I, when it governed the formerly Ottoman Palestine.
As the economy boomed, the share of Venezuelans living in poverty fell from 49.4% in 1999 to 27.6% in 2008, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America.By contrast, the opposition's shortcomings had been cruelly exposed when it governed in an era of low oil prices in the 1980s and 1990s.
The military's reputation was tarnished during the last transitional period, when it governed Egypt after the fall of then-President Hosni Mubarak.
The PPP won by far the most seats in the election, since when it has governed in a six-party coalition with a strong majority.
