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 how did Disney get to govern Reedy Creek in the first place?
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2022
• 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
• The city has lost the ability to govern itself in many ways.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 May 2022
• 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
• An appeals court had ruled that Spanish law should govern the case.
  — David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2022
• The sector now largely avoids the U.S. rules that govern the rest of the financial system.
  — Paul Kiernan, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2022
• That’s because lots of Utahns don’t pay attention to the laws that govern such things.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 July 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
• The rules of the easement continue to govern the property.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 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
• The Trump White House is governing by blitz, and as any football fan can tell you, the point of the blitz is to keep you jumpy and looking over your shoulder.
  — Gene Demby, NPR, 8 Feb. 2025
• While teams in Gaza search the rubble for more bodies, there is no clear sense of who or what could govern Gaza if Hamas were to be removed.
  — Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 24 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Gun violence is rare in Iran, where tight controls govern who can own a firearm.
  — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 28 May 2022
• 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
• And Obama has been cognizant of allowing Biden room to govern as his own man.
  — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
• Starvation as weapon of war The use of starvation as a weapon is strictly forbidden under the Geneva Conventions, a set of statutes that govern the laws of warfare.
  — Yara M. Asi, The Conversation, 21 May 2025
• State laws governing solar projects have frustrated many county lawmakers, who feel the state is taking the control over local projects out of their hands.
  — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025