GOVERN in a Sentence
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420 example sentences for GOVERN, such as:
1. Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
2. It is an attachment to govern his whole life.
3. Mexico had the support of the big western governments.
4. She was not a Vincent de Paul, to govern and mold a people.
5. Foreign governments have been consulted about this decision.
2. It is an attachment to govern his whole life.
3. Mexico had the support of the big western governments.
4. She was not a Vincent de Paul, to govern and mold a people.
5. Foreign governments have been consulted about this decision.
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Meanings and Examples of GOVERN
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govern
v. bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
v. direct or strongly influence the behavior of
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 And the vices of our age are the more odious in that they are practised by those who sit on the judgment seat, govern the State, and demand public reverence.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LX.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LX.
2 Again, since leagues govern through general councils, they must needs be slower in resolving than a nation dwelling within one frontier.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV.
3 From this it might seem that to govern a large body of men, it is better to be humane than haughty, and kindly rather than severe.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX.
4 The law, that was to govern Adam, was the same that was to govern all his posterity, the law of reason.
5 A child is free by his father's title, by his father's understanding, which is to govern him till he hath it of his own.
6 This is that which puts the authority into the parents hands to govern the minority of their children.
7 And as far as the governing class made any pretensions to govern, they were ridiculous too.
8 Fanny looked on and listened, not unamused to observe the selfishness which, more or less disguised, seemed to govern them all, and wondering how it would end.
9 It is an attachment to govern his whole life.
10 He feared that principle, active principle, had been wanting; that they had never been properly taught to govern their inclinations and tempers by that sense of duty which can alone suffice.
11 Georgia's leaders had kept on battling for the state's right to govern itself according to its own ideas.
12 She was not a Vincent de Paul, to govern and mold a people.
13 Greasy or not greasy, they will govern you, when their time comes," said Augustine; "and they will be just such rulers as you make them.
14 Higher powers govern those passions, and in them is something which will call to him, and refuse to be silenced, to the end of his life.
15 You say: join our brotherhood and we will show you the aim of life, the destiny of man, and the laws which govern the world.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 The best of all governments is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
2 Experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
3 Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive ; easy to govern but imposible to slave.
4 They go to the polls on Friday to choose the people they want to govern their country.
5 Experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficult than their tongues.
6 Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
7 The Queen of Britain reigns, but she does not rule or govern.
8 Mr. Blair is promising to listen more to the public and govern sensibly and wisely.
9 We ask you to govern fairly and justly, fight corruption and fulfill human rights.
10 Foreign governments have been consulted about this decision.
11 They have mounted a propaganda campaign against Western governments.
12 Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.
13 Mexico had the support of the big western governments.
14 Western governments should be giving more aid to the emerging democracies of the Third World.
15 Citizen committees endorsed the idea repeatedly, but city and county governments have been unable and unwilling to do it.