governable

Example Sentences

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"They had to be strategic about whom to include and whom to exclude, and how to make the nation-state governable," he explains.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2025

It may not always be pretty, but is the church governable?

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2021

Rowling wrote on her website in December 2017 that “conscience isn’t governable by committee. Within the fictional world and outside it, we all have to do what we believe to be the right thing.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2020

The five considerations are that the AI be: responsible, equitable, traceable, reliable, and governable.

From The Verge • Feb. 27, 2020

They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that hemmed in the terror and made it governable.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding