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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.
I'm chasing belts. I'm highly ranked, and after I beat Chisora, I should be No. 1 with at least four of the governing bodies.
Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted.
Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it.
We will never be a part of any plot against those who are governing our country.
An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.
A governing ethos of the Internet has been that whatever flows through it - information, ideas - is up for grabs.
Mexico established a unique three-part governing system shared by the government, the information commission and civil society organisations.
The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.
My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.
In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general.
There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing.
Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.
No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.
Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes.
Compromise is what it's got to be all about when you're governing, because no one is ever going to have a big enough majority to just do what they want to do all the time.
The public, unlike our governing elite, are not obsessed by race and sex. They are rightly interested only in the contents of the person's character.
When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.
Ministers must not be able to set rules governing solicitors on a whim, to suit their own requirements.
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.
It seems to me that, as it is usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing assumptions that are unsupported, and that it flies in the face of common sense.
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.
He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.
The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.
Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
In track and field, Nike is all-powerful. They control the top coaches, athletes, races, even the governing body.
As I prepare to take over the reins of your government, I ask each of you to join me in the process of governing.
And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for each, for all, and forever!'
We expect to foster a conservative governing philosophy consisting of limited government and respect for traditional American virtues.
I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.
My pledge is to be part of the solution to focus on governing, to put my experience to work to help solve the very serious issues we're facing in this country.
Congress has been productive when focusing on bites of policy that don't inflame the divisions within the party and quietly do the work of governing.
I believe that in order to sustain a governing majority, the Democratic Party has got to learn that it can govern without raising taxes.
Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.
Politics lasts only so long - though today it's getting harder to tell where the campaigning stops and the governing begins.
What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.
You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.
Men, once enemies, are now jointly governing in Northern Ireland. And although there have been several hitches, by and large it's working well.
If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered.
Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.
Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.
The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.
The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.
Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything... so who knows what the future will hold?
We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.
I think it's just natural when you're governing, that it's not always easy to remain as pure in principle as you'd like to be.
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
The Democratic Party's governing elite has long believed there is no problem that European-style policies cannot cure.
Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community.
