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govern English

Meaning govern meaning

What does govern mean?
Definitions in simple English

govern Verb

— If mathx/math governs mathy/math, mathx/math controls mathy/math through laws or other rules. The country is currently governed by the army. The market is governed by the same economic laws of supply and demand.

govern

— verb (= regulate) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations We cannot regulate the way people dress This town likes to regulate — verb direct or strongly influence the behavior of His belief in God governs his conduct — verb exercise authority over; as of nations Who is governing the country now? — verb require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German

Synonyms govern synonyms

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govern English » English

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Topics govern topics

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Language and thought Want Influence

Control
Social behavior

Government

Conjugation govern conjugation

How do you conjugate govern?

govern · verb

Examples govern examples

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Simple sentences

How could we govern others when we cannot govern ourselves?
Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
It's a difficult country to govern.
To govern a country is no easy job.
To govern a country is not an easy job.
Is it true that in England, the queen reigns, but does not govern?

Movie subtitles

I'll govern with you if I have to.
And these people govern France!
During the period in which your reasoning processes give way to self-hypnosis, the glands which govern your metabolism get out of control, like a steam engine without a balance wheel.
In this vast tribe, members of the female sex. rule and govern. and systematically deny equal rights to the men. made weak and puny by years of subservience. too weak to revolt.
Your ancestors knew this when they made laws to govern themselves, and hired policemen to enforce them.
They want to govern us, tell us what to do.
We want to govern ourselves.
I will govern according with my own ideas. and those of my people.
I always say that I do all, except govern.
Whatever it is. whatever intelligence or instinct it is. that can govern the forming of human flesh and blood. out of thin air is. well, it's fantastically powerful. beyond any comprehension, malignant.
I don't know how to govern.
Judah it will be very difficult to govern here.
If we don't, then the British are right, we cannot govern ourselves without them.
My dear Pontius it is said whoever can govern Jerusalem can govern anywhere, even Rome.
You'll govern without the lords.
A king's duty is to govern his people well.
Govern yourselves accordingly. My compliments, gentlemen.
Obey those who govern you and the laws by which they govern.
Laws don't govern.
Can he govern in peace?
So the law will govern.
Judah.. itwillbe verydifficult to govern here.
What does he govern?
You can't govern yourself or impose any discipline.
With that sort of ambition, you could open a bazaar!. But not govern a nation!
May their aging leader govern his son's youthful years.
When we have fully understood the scientific laws which govern life we will find that the only person with more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
To govern the island, to govern the island.
China will govern itself.
I'll govern the Universe!
Machines cannot govern man!

News and current affairs

I do not believe it is right to make a change of such magnitude without specifically consulting the people on whose behalf we govern.
Now, it is possible that Republican legislators may rebel against their leaders, arguing that they ran for office to govern, not to paralyze the government in the hope that doing so will give the party power to reign as it wishes after the next election.
Mexico's President Vincente Fox will govern through 2006.
What matters here are not oilfields, but pipelines, refineries, and oil ports - they influence spot price because they govern the immediate availability of oil.
It is not as though Africa lacked resources or the ability to govern itself well.
Berlusconi and Prodi have ruled out a German-style grand coalition - an outcome that seems especially unlikely following an election campaign in which both contestants have strongly hinted that their opponent has no legitimate right to govern.
Different world regions have different histories, which have given their peoples different ideas about how to live, govern themselves, and earn a living.
The draft Protocol does not yet require China to adopt rules to govern administrative procedure or the standards of evidence to be used by administrative agencies.
Family and kinship contracts, which govern marriage, adoption, cohabitation, inheritance, etc., form the basic unit of human society.
And they, too, are in angry revolt against party leaders, who are believed to have compromised themselves simply by trying to govern.
These officials must now carry out their most fundamental duty: to govern.
The colonial powers that filled the vacuum left by the declining empire had their own militaries, and therefore did not need local forces to govern.
The rule of law is the acceptance that laws given not by some supreme authority, but by the citizenry, govern all - those in power, those in opposition, and those outside the power game.
The clear message is that after almost eight years of Chinese rule, China's leaders do not trust anyone in Hong Kong to govern for five years.
Israel was not born, and it is not Israel's destiny, to govern another people.
The Japanese public, even now, remains uncertain about the DPJ's ability to govern and is skeptical of its rosy programs of wealth redistribution, which lack solid funding.
This means changing the incentives and rules that govern the financial sector.
Most importantly, China's call for the introduction of a new reserve currency stems from its frustration with the failure of major governments - whether in the US or Europe - to govern their economic affairs with realism and good sense.
While the Muslim Brotherhood has such an organizing principle, its internal rigidity - at least with Morsi at its helm - made it unfit to govern.
No one can predict whether the SNP might end up in the paradoxical position of joining a coalition with Labour to govern a country that it was campaigning to leave in last September's independence referendum.
If we are to prevent the UK from rattling to pieces, we have to change the way we govern ourselves.
By translating relative electoral majorities into absolute parliamentary majorities, it enables winning parties to govern rather than enter into permanent negotiations with coalition partners and scramble constantly for parliamentary majorities.
So I wasn't around when the Conservative Party, losing the will to govern, tore itself apart in the mid-1990's over Britain's role in Europe.
Social democrats govern in coalition governments with laissez-faire conservatives.

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