Sentence examples for will to govern from inspiring English sources

Gradually the old elite lost its nerve and its will to govern, hence the farming out of all sorts of functions to the private sector or to Europe, which was briefly the panacea that would rescue us.

If Tony Blair were to lose a couple of big votes on policies that were central to Labour's election manifesto, the argument goes, not only would he be finished, but Gordon Brown would take over the leadership of a party that had lost the will to govern.

And so back to Rory Stewart, apparently the embodiment of all the sterling virtues cited above, of the will to govern unstintingly in benighted zones, face down the Zulu and the tribesman's jezail, extend democracy and light to the darkest geospheres through generations of sacrifice, always marching to the sound of lusty voices singing "And did those feet in ancient time …".

A few days later, he horrified Welensky by telling him that "we British have lost the will to govern".

Maybe, with a little time to reflect, they will find in themselves the political will to govern instead of merely standing in the way.

In 1962, with the Federation in its constitutional death throes amid Nyasaland's clamours for secession and immediate black rule, Federal Prime Minister Roy Welensky was horrified and outraged to be told by Britain's Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Duncan Sandys, that "we British have lost the will to govern".

The State will cease to govern and will survive merely as an agency for the distribution of necessary commodities.

We are heading into an era where systems will have to govern actions; where games will be too vast to script.

But if he insists on trying to fool the public, he will lose its confidence and dissipate the good will necessary to govern.

President Obama will learn to govern toward the center or America's center will reject him and Congress.

Grover Norquist, a prominent conservative strategist, said "the Democrats will have to govern as moderates" in states like Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, where Republicans will control both houses of the state legislatures.