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  • "Ungovernable" is what certain liberal elites call our nation when their agenda does not slide through undisturbed by constitutional strictures, Senate rules and the popular will.

    Is America still 'ungovernable'? Jennifer Rubin 2010

  • If by "Ungovernable" they mean that we can not be dragged, deceived, or beaten into accepting socialist, Marxist, dictatorship, they are DAMN WELL RIGHT.

    Latest Articles American Thinker 2010

  • Ungovernable America is perhaps the most bearish of all things going forward.

    Matthew Yglesias » What Tea Parties Hath Wrought 2010

  • According to Vincent J. Cannato, author of The Ungovernable City, the Gray Lady "was seen as dictating to the mayor-elect a get-tough policy with the municipal unions."

    John R. Bohrer: America's Mayor in the New York City Sleeper Hold: John Lindsay, In Retrospect 2010

  • "Mayors throughout the country realize that responses to snowstorms are a very symbolic thing," said Vincent Cannato , the author of a recent biography of Mr. Lindsay called "The Ungovernable City."

    Snow Complaints Piling Up Michael Howard Saul 2010

  • Note 237: Tambo, "Make South Africa Ungovernable", 159. back

    'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

  • Ungovernable rage and madness took entire possession of Gania, and his fury burst out without the least attempt at restraint.

    The Idiot 2002

  • Ungovernable elements, which wish to transform education into a battlefield, are acting against the interests of the great majority of all South Africans.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • Ungovernable curiosity uttered itself in his aunt's next words.

    The New Magdalen Wilkie Collins 1856

  • Ungovernable rage and madness took entire possession of Gania, and his fury burst out without the least attempt at restraint.

    The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1851

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