They misgovern as they govern and they govern as they misgovern. From Wordnik.com. [Contents] Reference
They hurt themselves and the people they care about, and constantly misgovern their lives. From Wordnik.com. [The Excitement Wears Off: Scattered Thoughts at the End of Battlestar Galactica's Second Season] Reference
Better we lose the election than mislead the people, and better we lose than misgovern the people. From Wordnik.com. [Speech Accepting the Democratic Presidential Nomination] Reference
Labour needs a large poor and dependent underclass otherwise they will never be in a position to misgovern again. From Wordnik.com. [“ Letting Down Future Generations “] Reference
Let us not be as foolish or arrogant as those who misgovern us; let us never forget or dismiss their betrayals of the public trust. From Wordnik.com. [A Legacy of Damage to America: The President's Vile Precedents Etcetera] Reference
Let us not be as foolish or arrogant as those who misgovern us; let us never forget or dismiss their betrayals of the public trust. '. From Wordnik.com. [A Legacy of Damage to America: The President's Vile Precedents Etcetera] Reference
His role would be responsible for all the bad stuff, leaving the rest of the administration free to misgovern in peace, while the Accountability Czar explains and apologizes for all the mistakes, and answers all the supoenas. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » A Galaxy of Czars] Reference
Then the king, seeing the impossibility of carrying out his scheme for pacifying the whole of Ireland, was reduced to the expedient of dividing the country into two; leaving the larger part of it for the natives and degenerate English to misgovern as they pleased according to their own customs, and preserving only. From Wordnik.com. [Is Ulster Right?] Reference
Cicero promised his influence to obtain some lucrative province for Antonius to misgovern. From Wordnik.com. [Caesar: a Sketch] Reference
For the sake of dishonorable peace they leave these native states to misgovern themselves and stink to high heaven!. From Wordnik.com. [Rung Ho]
Paterson is going to keep showing up to veto, threaten, and misgovern. andrewmn Friday, February 26th at 1: 08PM EST. From Wordnik.com. [RedState] Reference
Sultan or Pasha, and still less for the repose of the countries they misgovern or the happiness of the people they oppress. From Wordnik.com. [The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3)] Reference
It is easy to talk about our withdrawing altogether from Egypt and leaving the Egyptians to govern or misgovern themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Egyptian Problem] Reference
An element that forms a base by combining with oxygen, is usually hard, heavy, and lustrous. misrule v. To misgovern. metallurgy n. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
National monarchy meant national wars and the right of national churches to misgovern themselves according to their several inclinations. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Europe] Reference
The secrecy-obsessed White House is, of course, threatening a veto - one more effort to deny Americans their rightful access to the truth about how their leaders govern or misgovern. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Reasons] Reference
In vain he multiplied formalities and inspectors, and punished severely the few delinquents who happened by some accident to be brought to justice; the officials continued to pilfer, extort, and misgovern in every possible way. From Wordnik.com. [Russia] Reference
I should misgovern the country and worry and oppress the people, and at the same time keep the Assembly going, and after a time I should thus create a desire on the part of the representatives to have some means of keeping me in check. From Wordnik.com. [Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore] Reference
Extreme doctrines of obedience and extreme doctrines of liberty, the right of rulers to misgovern the people, the right of every one of the people to plunge his knife in the heart of a bad ruler, were inculcated by the same man, according as he addressed himself to the subject of Philip or to the subject of Elizabeth. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference
"It is for the happiness," says he, "of a member of the House of Commons to govern well; for he never can tell that he is not close on the moment when misgovernment will be terribly punished: if he was sure that he should be as lucky as his predecessors, it might be for his happiness to misgovern; but he is not sure.". From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2] Reference
Hume, the historian, wrote, October 27th, 1775: "I am an American in my principles, and wish we could let them alone, to govern or misgovern themselves as they think proper. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference
For inasmuch as he had spurned the counsel of the wise, in order to misgovern and grind down the people, therefore they hated him as those had hated him "who were before them. From Wordnik.com. [The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur] Reference
Let’s hear something about McCain other than his POW story - like some actual policy measures he plans on taking - and see if he wants someone other than “Joe of All Trades” Lieberman to help him misgovern the country. —. From Wordnik.com. [Are We There Yet? - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Am I justified in saying, "My neighbor shall not govern himself because in so doing he may incidentally misgovern me: Until my right is recognized, my neighbor's shall not be: Until the nation shall assent to woman's righteous claim which it does not yet admit, that nation shall not do its admitted duty and place in the hands of its" peeled and scattered 'freedmen a shield against the horrors of the Ku-Klux-Klan? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Womans Advocate] Reference
To vote with rulers who misgovern thus?. From Wordnik.com. [My Life as an Author]
How retchlessly he doth himself misgovern. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2] Reference
"misgovern" themselves, than be "wellgoverned" by the US "High Representative". From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
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