misgovernment

The barons had long been embittered by King John 's misgovernment, his levying of heavy taxes to support his foreign wars, and his personal injustice and cruelty toward potential rivals among the nobility.

The PDP candidate lamented that due to misgovernment by APC, Lagos waterways and lagoons had become a major spot for people committing suicide, a factor, he said that had corrupted its reputation as the state of aquatic splendour.

A former Special Assistant to President Reagan, he is author of The Politics of Plunder: Misgovernment in Washington.

With the same firmness and conviction he displayed in parliament, Gladstone rejected the notion that the constitutional system of Greece had led to the kingdom's misgovernment: "For my own part I have not yet arrived at the belief that Brigandage in Greece has been owing to the free institutions of the country." (73) Gladstone even recalled his personal impressions from a visit to Athens to contest Clarendon's verdict that brigandage in Greece resulted from the vices of the Greeks, who kept under control the government of the country through the "democratic" provisions of the constitution of 1864.

I must say I am far more enthused about the future of the UK Labour Party than I have been my entire adult voting life, but on a local level I fear that his success at the UK party level will condemn Wales to another miserable five years of Labour misgovernment.

Win or lose, Ireland will go on in her old round of misgovernment, intensified by a grinding poverty which will make life intolerable.

But dwelling on its eight years of misgovernment under Premier Nuri Al-Maliki and the tragic list of missed opportunities, is not of itself going to affect the plight of millions of ordinary Iraqis, betrayed by the political leadership that was supposed to be their country's salvation.

Neither will there be found, in these pages, any grave examination into the government or misgovernment of any portion of the country.

"He should tell us everything that's happening in government because what we have in Venezuela is misgovernment."

(113) In a footnote to this passage, the Court suggests that disclosure protects the information value through the work of the free press: "Informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment." (114)

Although this is a bedrock tradition in the American polity, it has had almost zero representation in Washington, D.C., during the last decade of bipartisan misgovernment.

Top-down centralised state control, undermining social responsibility - this has been characterised in the West Midlands by a plethora of quangos and government agencies which have failed to deliver over the last 10 years of Labour misgovernment.

(It was John Major's misgovernment which privatised railways and closed the mental hospitals thus denying mentally ill people the appropriate professional care they need every day).

In the first place, misgovernment doesn't always give rise to terrorist opposition.