How To Use Ungovernable In A Sentence

  • Africa's coastal waters remain some of the most ungoverned - and ungovernable - spaces in the world.
  • It makes us question the balance between human control and the heretofore ungovernable forces we deemed natural.
  • Too much liberty of this kind savours of a luxuriant ungovernable fancy and borders on enthusiasm.
  • But he came out an admirer, one who believes that he took on a city that seemed all but ungovernable and came closer to governing it than any mayor in modern times.
  • He was filled with an ungovernable rage.
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  • It was a policy which created a classroom revolution - one which has caused chaos and misery for countless thousands of children and their teachers and made many schools all but ungovernable.
  • This simply advances our state of anarchy, takes it to another level where the country becomes ungovernable and unlivable.
  • For a partisan such as Yglesias to say that America has become ungovernable is a rare opening of a window to his soul. Matthew Yglesias » Ungovernable America
  • I try to control it but if it slips out it is ungovernable.
  • The public sphere in many ways had become ungovernable, in that it was difficult if not impossible to retain control over how products were consumed.
  • Someone unruly was ungovernable or disorderly; the modern sense is a weakening of this.
  • The idea that this one rule permits the minority that only represents a third of the country to render the country ungovernable is simply true. Matthew Yglesias » Ungovernable America
  • The country has become virtually ungovernable.
  • The captain of the privateer was a man of violent and ungovernable temper and drunken habits. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
  • But the message was undoubtedly to the world, to the coalition, to the U.N. community as a whole, that Iraq was ungovernable under present conditions.
  • It makes us question the balance between human control and the heretofore ungovernable forces we deemed natural.
  • Unbiddable ungovernable - like a riot in the heart , and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.
  • Someone's going to do something about it and since so much spam comes from other, ungovernable countries, a legislative solution won't help much.
  • Carmen was ungovernable by nature, but at that stage in her life she was still enmeshed in the cobwebs of `what will people say. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • It was a calculated, callous attempt to undermine Castro and the Cuban Government, essentially bludgeoning the Cubans to the point where the country would become ungovernable.
  • Maybe it's just me, off here in Maine, one of the remote corners the various anti-Federalists wrote about as being ungovernable from the center. Balkinization
  • What is clear is that the photograph, in the editor's own words, fitted into an editorial view that portrayed Iraq as ungovernable and chaotic.
  • There are also many people who believe that some schools are ungovernable, and some children ineducable, and that giving the mayor a free ride on the chancellorship would make it easier to fix the blame on him if a less than satisfactory outcome results. Henry J. Stern: Will Steiner Waver on Cathie Black's Waiver?
  • Economic liberalization was then undertaken to restore the fiscal base, and thence government control over what had become ungovernable economies.
  • In my everyday work as a doctor, for example, I see the results of ungoverned, and consequently ungovernable, passion: that is to say, murder, mayhem, and misery.
  • And, sure enough, there was Kennedy, with rueful face and a maudlin romaunt about a moonlit meeting with a swarm of painted Sioux, over which the stable guard were making merry and stirring the trooper's soul to wrath ungovernable. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier
  • Management of his fissiparous, some would say ungovernable, party will be not the least of his challenges. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the question remains, as a seemingly ungovernable party continues to languish in electoral obscurity and tear itself apart, whether the smack of firm leadership will be enough to save the Scottish Tories.
  • Henry was nineteen years old, bull-necked, stocky and freckled, a man of electric energy and ferocious impatience, compelling charm and an ungovernable temper.
  • But the unmistakable impression is that they are now putting short-term partisanship ahead of good policy by trying to make the House ungovernable.
  • The old, round, ungovernable army-surplus chutes - the ones that sent people drifting into trees and breaking both legs - are gone.
  • Too many thoughts, too many emotions, all of them ungovernable. THE THORN BIRDS
  • The idea that this one rule permits the minority that only represents a third of the country to render the country ungovernable is simply true Matthew Yglesias » Ungovernable America
  • Tex stared down at the scarlet furrow that had appeared on his forearm and was filled with an ungovernable rage. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
  • Part of Allawi's mission was to counter the TV coverage depicting Iraq as a bloody battlefield hurtling toward ungovernable chaos and unwinnable civil war.
  • That leaves the Taliban and its allies to pursue the same strategy used by their forebears against the Soviets - take control of the countryside, and make it ungovernable from Kabul.
  • The country has become virtually ungovernable.
  • Corruption and civil unrest had made the country ungovernable.
  • The Kabul government no longer faces a movement capable of taking over the country; rather, it faces regional insurgencies, capable of making the country ungovernable.
  • Too much liberty of this kind savours of a luxuriant ungovernable fancy and borders on enthusiasm.
  • The country has become virtually ungovernable.
  • If the laws are unfavourable, we must make the country ungovernable.
  • I cannot disown them becausewe were on the same side and foughtfor the same cause, namely law and order as we saw it, and also to ensure that this country would not be made ungovernable. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The Wanderer," pitying the fortunes and miseries of the author, yet his ungovernable temper and depraved propensities, which led to his embruing his hands in blood, his ingratitude to his patrons and benefactors, (but chiefly to Pope,) and his degraded misemployment of talents which might have raised him to the capital of the proud column of intellect of that day, -- all conduce to petrify the tear of mingled mercy and compassion, which the misfortunes of such a being might otherwise demand. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829
  • The chief of the senate exclaimed against it as a base action, and excited one another to repress the boldness and insolence of the soldiers, which would erelong become altogether ungovernable and violent, were they now permitted to deprive Aemilius of his triumph. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
  • It also praised the reaction of New Yorkers to the tragedy: ‘The supposedly ungovernable city showed it could govern itself under the most terrifying pressure.’
  • The country was soon essentially ungovernable, with various warlords in murderous control of their own fiefdoms.

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