Synonym: boss, command, conduct, control, determine, direct, guide, handle, head, influence, lead, manage, minister, preside over, regulate, rule, run, supervise. Antonym: misgovern, misrule. Similar words: governor, government, federal government, poring over, overnight, over and over, cavernous, over. Meaning: ['gʌvərn /'gʌvn] v. 1. bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations 2. direct or strongly influence the behavior of 3. exercise authority over; as of nations 4. require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood.
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(61) He stresses the importance of establishing rules and procedures that will govern unit-school relations.
(62) This principle is reflected in the rules which govern procedural matters.
(63) I wanted to convey a similar feeling for our progress toward a complete understanding of the laws that govern the universe.
(64) How do you plan to work with Congress to govern the country?
(65) We cannot let our democracy become a matter of simply giving a bunch of politicians a blank cheque to govern us every five years.
(66) Cervera claims the fight is about the rights of states to govern without federal courts intruding.
(67) But it was Mr Samaranch, 81, a former member of Franco's govern ment, who dominated proceedings.
(68) We pause in front of chalkboards hung on the wall delineating the controlled transactions that govern this universe.
(69) The former chancellor questioned the prime minister's ability to govern.
(70) So far as the security of the state was concerned, two principles were stated to govern the granting of warrants.
(71) The ephemeral nature of fluid flow belies the rigid rules which govern its behaviour. Sentencedict.com
(72) One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. George Herbert
(73) The principles of fair procedure which govern the conduct of disciplinary hearings also apply, by and large, to appeal hearings.
(74) That outcome of the long process of evolution which will enable them to govern the uses of their own physical mechanisms.
(75) Because it's being betrayed by the people who are meant to govern it.
(76) Handing over the power to tax and spend means handing over the power to govern.
(77) Alba was empty enough of men to govern and serve, without throwing them away to no purpose.
(78) This act sets rules of conduct to govern producers in their relationships with consumers.
(79) The above trends govern the technology transfer process by making certain types of technologies available to well behaved states.
(80) He was the second caliph to govern after the death of the Prophet. 2.
(81) Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. William Penn
(82) They all produce rugs to order, with strict criteria laid down to govern the sizes, colours,[sentencedict.com] designs and qualities.
(83) Byrne designs the cars and has made the most of the rigid rules that now govern Grand Prix racing.
(84) Some observers feared a chaotic situation that could deprive the eventual winner of the legitimacy needed to govern.
(85) It involves a change in both the stated and unstated rules which govern the behavior and beliefs of an organization.
(86) For example, we already know the physical laws that govern everything that we experience in everyday life.
(87) Those who govern the existing system, no matter how left-wing and revolutionary their political ideologies, are social conservatives.
(88) Nyerere was arguing right up to, and beyond the date of the dissolution of the RDA that ujamaa villages must govern themselves.
(89) The Government govern not by consent or even by diktat but by spite - spite against the mining communities.
(90) This is an example of a necessity in the fabric of space, typical of the necessities which govern motion.
More similar words: governor, government, federal government, poring over, overnight, over and over, cavernous, over, lover, cover, oversee, get over, all over, go over, be over, overall, covert, overcome, poverty, recover, run over, proverb, hand over, uncover, covered, cover up, lay over, over there, overlap, overcast.