governance

noun gov·er·nance \ ˈgə-vər-nən(t)s \

|Updated on: 8 Aug 2018

Examples: governance in a Sentence

Definition of governance

: government

the challenges of national governance

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Examples of governance in a Sentence

They have very different approaches to the governance of the city.
after World War II, the four Allied nations shared the governance of the territory of postwar Germany under the Allied Control Council

Recent Examples of governance from the Web

The Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority hopes a 49-page governance agreement convinces a federal agency to help fund the South Shore Line’s West Lake extension at the higher costs.

— tim zorn, Post-Tribune, "West Lake rail expansion project cost rises to $764.3M, RDA says," 12 July 2018
Meanwhile, the Maastricht Treaty, signed in February 1992, created the pan-national economic and governance institution that, in November of 1993, would take shape as the European Union.

— jonathan bradley, Billboard, "Dream Up the World You're Gonna Live In: How U2's 'Zooropa' Got the Future Wrong, 25 Years Later," 5 July 2018
Kalanick's appointments came ahead of the board's meetings to consider new rules of governance for the company that would change shareholder voting rights and potentially the structure of the board.

— katherine feser, Houston Chronicle, "People in business," 4 July 2018
Far distanced from those in authority, a natural gift for self-governance and increasing economic vitality made the Revolution possible.

— chris stirewalt, Fox News, "The new trustbusters," 3 July 2018
Strategy U-Turn Eutelsat would have faced financing and governance hurdles with an Inmarsat takeover, which would have represented a strategy U-turn, Olivier Moral, an analyst at HSBC, wrote in a research note.

— thomas seal, Bloomberg.com, "Eutelsat Won't Bid for Inmarsat, Clearing Way for EchoStar," 26 June 2018
Even after Kalanick was discarded, the venture capital firm launched a surprise lawsuit that was ultimately used as negotiating leverage and dropped for a series of governance changes that offered Kalanick’s successor a clean slate.

— theodore schleifer, Recode, "Is there a next act for one of Silicon Valley’s top investors after Uber? Benchmark and Bill Gurley are about to find out.," 25 June 2018
For Trump, leadership is effective governance by any means necessary.

— chris cillizza, CNN, "The 49 wildest quotes from Donald Trump's Singapore press conference," 12 June 2018
As with his predecessor Eliot Spitzer, the interesting question about Mr. Schneiderman quickly became: How will the great American experiment in self-governance, in order to remain great, bring his cynical, demagogic career to an end?

— holman w. jenkins, WSJ, "Why N.Y. Pols Aren’t World Class," 8 May 2018

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