Example Sentences

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He called on federal authorities to take charge of the investigation given Guerrero's "ungovernability".

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2024

The feeling of ungovernability made a deep impression on each of them, Botero said.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2022

As Jonathan Rauch of the Brookings Institution writes in his important new book, “The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth”: “When compromise fails, ungovernability sets in.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2021

Italy is a study in ungovernability, with 60 administrations since World War II.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2017

In New York City in the 1980s, a symbol of the city’s ungovernability was Wollman Rink, the Central Park skating rink whose 2½-year renovation dragged on for six years with no end in sight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 21, 2015