How to Use govern in a Sentence

govern

verb

• The council governs fishing in the region.
• They want to form their own country and govern themselves.
• We will be studying the forces that govern the Earth's climate.
• He allows himself to be governed by his emotions.
• How would he govern if he were elected president?
• She suggested changing the state's laws governing the sale of alcohol.
• Tradition governs all aspects of their lives.
• The tribe is governed by a 10-member council.
• The scandal limited her ability to govern effectively.
• There were states that changed the rules governing the elections, all in the name of Covid.
  — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 7 June 2023
• So what are the rules that govern who gets an honorary street name and who doesn’t?
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 30 Nov. 2022
• Rules that govern the mortgage process fall under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 8 June 2024
• Laws governing the purchase and ownership of firearms in Japan are among the strictest in the world.
  — Hisako Ueno, New York Times, 25 May 2023
• Truss came in with a clear plan but squandered her own mandate to govern in just 44 days.
  — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2022
• The sector now largely avoids the U.S. rules that govern the rest of the financial system.
  — Paul Kiernan, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2022
• At the same time, though, those tribes are seeing new threats to their efforts to govern themselves.
  — Simon Romero, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• LLCs are governed by state law, so the rules can vary from state to state, but most states do not restrict ownership.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
• In a bid to ease the hand-wringing of governing bodies around the world, the IOC released new guidelines in November 2021.
  — Ben Wyatt, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2023
• The rules are as carefully observed as those governing all that cutlery around the plate.
  — Ligaya Mishan Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• With the batteries fully charged, the new electric Fantom has a top speed governed to 53 mph, with 25 mph being the sweet spot.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2023
• As for the dynamic of the new council, Alvord is waiting to see how the incoming members want to govern.
  — Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
• Our City podcast, host Laura Wenus looks into the rules that govern this process, which are enshrined in the city charter.
  — Fixing Our City Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Oct. 2022
• McDaniel, a pilot, would be a newcomer to the governing body.
  — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
• Neither looks assured of having enough votes to govern alone.
  — Colleen Barry, ajc, 13 Aug. 2022
• They are formed by one or more of the affected taxing entities and governed by their own boards.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024
• Even the motives governing the new battlefield would be alien, to some extent.
  — Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
• The flow of billions of dollars into Gaza hinges on who, precisely, will govern the strip.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
• The math that governs modern basketball says Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s game is all wrong.
  — Robert O’Connell, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2024
• The governing party maintained that just as in the impeachment of a president, at least two-thirds of the 300-member National Assembly had to vote in favor for the motion to pass.
  — Jin Yu Young, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
• The opposition and the pro-Western president, Salome Zourabichvili, have accused the governing party of rigging the vote with Russia’s help.
  — Jill Lawless, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Jan 2025