misgovern

Example Sentences

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I have argued that a better life for people in a misgoverned country is an essential part of that effort.

From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2019

Presented with unmistakable signs of crisis, English authorities began to wonder if the colonies were misgoverned.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

It would have been better for Clegg and for our poor, misgoverned country if society had obliged him to find his own way in the world.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2011

“If a country is massively misgoverned, like Sierra Leone, no amount of education is going to put bread on the table for children.”

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2010

Ireland had been the object of perpetual concessions, and, if misgoverned at all, it has been such by the excess of those concessions.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various