In 2004, as in 1968, perhaps the best antidote to timidity is theungovernablewildness of the imagination.
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Notions that the state had become 'ungovernable' became fashionable in the late 1970s following the international economic crisis of 1974.
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However, most contemporary accounts of navvies tended to stigmatize them as an insubordinate, unruly, andungovernableclass of men.
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What is clear is thatungovernableinterior forces threaten to overwhelm the traditional fashionable façade.
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If the information given to humans by their biology is not sufficient to order their behavior, something must; otherwise total chaos - meaningless action,ungovernableemotion - and eventual extinction would ensue.
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English is - and always has been - in a state ofungovernablechange.
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It is against these inequalities and theseungovernableforces that a world-wide revolt is stirring from end to end on this earth.
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She has anungovernabletemper, and is destitute of any feelings of modesty.
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I fear that the crisis in this utterly impoverished country will escalate and thus make itungovernable.
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There is nothing new in a country beingungovernable.
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This could have been done without creating anungovernablemonster.
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There is a serious danger that the country is becoming economicallyungovernable.
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In many circumstances these countries are becomingungovernableby democratic means and military governments are perfectly satisfactory.
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Whole nations, with their new knowledge, have become restlesslyungovernable, and leaders have lost their will to govern.
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Does he not conclude that the country is virtuallyungovernable?
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