How to Use governance in a Sentence

governance

noun
  • They have very different approaches to the governance of the city.
  • But governance is not a light switch.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • But no one cheers for good governance.
    — Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • And this is not good governance.
    — Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Yet governance has not kept pace.
    — Shiv Kaushik, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • That is not a governance failure to be stamped out.
    — Dan Adika, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Hamas has refused to lay down its arms and cede governance of the area yet.
    — Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2025
  • What’s wrong with governance in Africa?
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Franklin’s answer to that trap is blunt governance.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 June 2026
  • Healthy debate is part of good governance.
    — Troy McLellan, Sun Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026
  • And when governance works, the results show.
    — Stuart Loren, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2026
  • What is required is a shift in how governance is designed.
    — Georg Ell, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • This isn't a governance gap that fell through the cracks of a single function.
    — Jeppe Rindom, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Without trust and governance, the gap widens.
    — Adam Mills, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But now, both have stepped down amid claims about the charity’s governance.
    — Simon Perry, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • This shift will not weaken governance.
    — Shane Goodwin, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Good governance is not about picking the right story.
    — Mark Desjardine, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • That governance structure has never changed over many, many years.
    — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Trump’s method of governance is command.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026
  • Even so, that doesn’t mean the use of blockchain in AI governance is ready to take off.
    — Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
  • And so that got me into the rabbit hole of thinking about governance on blockchains.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Using sales tax to buy down property tax is not good governance.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
  • That is why the key governance mistake is not deploying too late.
    — Oleg Malii, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • This change is now being felt at the highest levels of governance.
    — Pam Kaur, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The ends do not justify the means in our system of governance.
    — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • What is the governance model in other states?
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • In this sense, genome writing is as much about governance as genetics.
    — Big Think, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Chavez, as a member of county governance, said that this was not the way to use their platform.
    — Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • The trick is going to be getting the governance systems right.
    — Bruce Schneier, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
  • There needs to be real governance around what’s allowed and how it’s enforced.
    — Jennifer Flowers, AFAR Media, 4 Aug. 2025

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