What's the difference between governable and ungovernable?
Governable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being governed, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient.
Example Sentences:
(1) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
(2) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
(3) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
(4) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(5) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(6) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(7) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
(8) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
(9) People should ask their MP to press the government for a speedier response.
(10) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
(11) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(12) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
(13) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(14) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
(15) The mortality data were derived from the reports by Miyagi Prefectural Government.
(16) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
(17) Until recently, the control was thought to be governed by single, dominant genes, located within the I region of the H-2 complex.
(18) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
(19) Nevertheless, this LTR does not govern efficient transcription of adjacent genes in a transient expression assay.
(20) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
Ungovernable
Definition:
(a.) Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Papoulias also underlined the urgency for a government to be formed as he handed Samaras the formal mandate, saying: "The country cannot remain ungoverned for even an hour."
(2) The rural areas have always been neglected when it comes to security and that has always been the problem – the ungoverned places.” Nigerian army offensives have won back territory from Boko Haram in the past year, and the number and frequency of terrorist attacks has fallen significantly.
(3) Richard Pennycook, the stand-in chief executive of the Co-op, will oversee the publication of the results after Sutherland walked out claiming the business was "ungovernable".
(4) There are certain expectations, going back centuries, of male sexuality being rampant and ungovernable, and equal and opposite expectations of female sexuality.
(5) Richard Pennycook, its finance director, has taken temporary control - hours after it emerged that Sutherland had tended his resignation, saying the Group was ungovernable.
(6) "Germany is not becoming ungovernable, but it's definitely becoming harder to form governments," said Hans Kundnani, a Germany analyst at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
(7) What we face in Libya is a very difficult situation without a proper government and with the growth of ungoverned space David Cameron The brutal mass murder of Egyptian nationals in Libya was the first large-scale atrocity claimed by Isis outside its familiar heartlands in Syria and Iraq.
(8) And we know what happens with ungovernable parties: they're going to lose the election," Miliband told reporters, before boarding Labour's red-and-white battle bus, the Indy Ref Express, for a low-key tour of a local shopping centre to meet voters.
(9) Religious leaders have mediated with Boko Haram in the past, which has threatened to make the country "ungovernable" in retaliation for the imprisonment of its members.
(10) Caught up in this febrile discourse was also the alleged ungovernability of the electorate , a panic that peaked around the time of Campbell Newman’s ouster as Queensland premier in January.
(11) "If Afghanistan is left by itself, it can become an ungoverned area or a failed state … It can become once again a place terrorists can hide they can take shelter, they can train and they can plan and they can operate from."
(12) Robert O'Daly, Italy analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit, said Grillo had shaken "Italy's political establishment to its core", and that Italy is now "looking ungovernable".
(13) Our findings enlarge on previous descriptions of neoplastic transformation by MYC and sustain the view that ungoverned expression of the gene can contribute to the genesis of human tumors.
(14) The European Union, he said, was "undemocratic to the point where the electorate is disaffected, and ungovernable to the point where it cannot deal with the crisis that it has created".
(15) So the right answer is to be long term, hard-headed, patient and intelligent with the interventions that we make, and the most important intervention of all is to make sure that these governments are fully representative of the people who live in their countries, that they close down the ungoverned space, and they remove the support for the extremists.
(16) It is well understood that not only does illicit trade migrate towards "ungoverned spaces", particularly those inhabited by people in dire poverty, it then makes matters far worse.
(17) Tony Blair, as Labour prime minister, joined the war launched by George Bush on the basis that the ungoverned space of Afghanistan harboured al-Qaida training camps responsible for the attack on the twin towers in New York.
(18) "But certainly Mr Snowden has created quite a stir among those folks who are very committed to transparency and global transparency and the global web, kind of ungoverned and free.
(19) "Oh yes, ungovernable forces, things you couldn't control, things that were totally out of your control.
(20) Malema has been calling for a revolution that will make the mines ungovernable until they are nationalised .