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How to use govern in a sentence

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In lieu thereof, he created him ethnarch, and as such permitted him to govern nine years.
Like many, he believed the indigenous peoples were too backward to capably govern themselves.
Two prepositions should not govern one objective unless there is an immediate connection between them.
Which brings us again to the bishops, who more than anyone should try to govern in accord with divine justice and mercy.
Cyrus's Achaemenian dynasty also allowed local kings and nobles to govern their original realms, albeit under Persian suzerainty.
What we may see as the handiwork of Pan or Isis, others may see as the blind workings of the physical laws that govern the universe.
The Central Committee's plenum reiterated its determination to shore up the party's ability to govern the country.
The cited Code provisions govern the jurisdictional and procedural aspects of military tribunals.
The toytown politicians who dreamed it up have demonstrated their unfitness to govern us, and should be sent packing at the next election.
Conservatives in Congress are talking about subjecting cable TV to the same indecency regs that govern broadcast networks.
It was a mistake to let ideological obsessions about the free market and lack of regulation govern economic policy.
The government of Nunavut will be a non-party system and members run as independents and will govern by consensus.
In other words, although Parliament was repealing the Stamp Act, it retained its right to govern America.
But the leader can still govern well through his or her leadership style or ability.
I know all this sounds stupid and arrogant but I don't pretend at any level to be able to govern anyone.
In any market-place, buyers and sellers need rules which govern their conduct and prevent abuses of their respective positions.
One can demonstrate to skeptics the explicit rules which govern a skill, or a game, but not those which govern an art.
These managers rode roughshod over the rules that govern corporate activity and betrayed the trust of the investors.
They have no comprehension of the social codes that govern the rest of us, and may touch inappropriately or throw tantrums.
Law, in the sense of rules and principles that govern human conduct, is a blunt instrument.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It is to these people, and by retroaction, to yourselves, that you do harm when you govern unjustly.
Participial adjectives and adverbs in the active voice govern the accusative.
I knew that the pentacle would govern her, and the ring must bind, until I gave the word.
The bursting of a blood vessel in the brain may let a blood clot form and press on the nerves which govern the arm or the leg.
But he was forty, and the methods of that many years must still govern his actions.
Two general motives enter here to govern the estimate and each may show the routine or the innovative phase.
If children or imbeciles or insane persons collide, the same law shall govern as in the case of sui juris persons.
The laws of Draco were too severe, but they had no others to govern the city.
If this mastership wants to govern the planet under the Emperor, they may do so.
So long as you denied them the suffrage, you pretended to govern them and for them.
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