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Synonyms for governable

capable of being governed

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Synonyms for governable

capable of being controlled

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As Harvard political scientist Julian Gewirtz explains, "When the Chinese government saw that information technology was becoming a part of daily life, it realized it would have a powerful new tool for both gathering information and controlling culture, for making Chinese people more 'modern' and more 'governable'--which have been perennial obsessions of the leadership." Subsequent advances, including progress in AI and faster processors, have brought that vision closer.
This was not his first such "gaffe" (which generally means an official has said publicly what he really thinks); Oettinger opined in 2013 that Italy is "essentially barely governable."
...America Is Not the Heart unleashes a force that is sometimes barely rational, oft times just, and only just, governable and regularly breath-taking." HUGH MACDONALD
It distills a complex field into something governable, squeezing an unwieldy set of human goings-on into the mold of whatever the authorities define as religions deserving of protection.
Ishrat's main purpose is to ask if Pakistan can become governable again - his answer is yes, it can and then he goes on to present a long-term agenda for institutional reform that is complex and difficult to implement but possible.
Ishrat's main purpose is to ask if Pakistan can become governable again his answer is yes, it can and then he goes on to present a long term agenda for institutional reform that is complex and difficult to implement but possible,' he said.
Those reports claimed that [beaucoup moins que]Egypt is no longer a governable state under Morsi[beaucoup plus grand que].
The latter concept here adopts the postulate that the role of management accounting and control systems is a functional technology for constructing a governable reality (Miller & O'Leary, 1987) given its instrumental capabilities towards monetization.
These steps he added changed the perception of the people and they started realizing that PTI was on the right track to make the province governable as it had become ungovernable federating units because of the bad governance in the past.
Where the colony in modernity was subjected to conquest, the postcolony is subjected to the post-panoptic governmentalizing manifestation of power, where populations, and not simply individuals, are shaped and regulated into governable, manageable entities" (p.
The message this year at the Davos 2017 'Responsible and Responsive Leadership' was clear and incisive; it is not anti-globalization rather a wake-up call for the systems to become resilient and not the governable. The pressure is on the leadership and they will be held accountable.
Twinned with a new, two-round voting system for the lower house, the changes should finally make Italy a governable country, Renzi says.