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    Use "governed" in a sentence

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    governed


    1. The second noun ‘door’ (the action receiver) is the object governed by the verb ‘opens’


    2. Both historic buildings and food can be governed by either preserve or conserve


    3. There was another faction that actually wanted to carve out a governed land with a national boundary and laws


    4. Those who governed sought to maintain a status quo


    5. Conduct towards others should always be governed by the


    6. It is necessary that we respect and be governed by divine authority


    7. seriously and prayerfully about these matters; and to determine to be governed by a "thus saith the Lord


    8. We are governed by another wisdom


    9. It is the place where we are not longer governed by the things of this world


    10. Our character and conduct need to be governed from that reality, even though we have not yet attained unto it

    11. In the disorderly state of England under the Plantagenets, who governed it from about the middle of the twelfth till towards the end of the fifteenth century, one district might be in plenty, while another, at no great distance, by having its crop destroyed, either by some accident of the seasons, or by the incursion of some neighbouring baron, might be suffering all the horrors of a famine; and yet if the lands of some hostile lord were interposed between them, the one might not be able to give the least assistance to the other


    12. Under the vigorous administration of the Tudors, who governed England during the latter part of the fifteenth, and through the whole of the sixteenth century, no baron was powerful enough to dare to disturb the public security


    13. doubtful (a state could not be governed by the


    14. was the one who governed them


    15. adopt as principle that a country could not be governed


    16. To judge whether such retaliations are likely to produce such an effect, does not, perhaps, belong so much to the science of a legislator, whose deliberations ought to be governed by general principles, which are always the same, as to the skill of that insidious and crafty animal vulgarly called a statesman or politician, whose councils are directed by the momentary fluctuations of affairs


    17. All the different civil establishments in North America, in short, exclusive of those of Maryland and North Carolina, of which no exact account has been got, did not, before the commencement of the present disturbances, cost the inhabitants about £64,700 a-year; an ever memorable example, at how small an expense three millions of people may not only be governed but well governed


    18. According to the scheme of taxing by requisition, the parliament of Great Britain would stand nearly in the same situation towards the colony assemblies, as the king of France does towards the states of those provinces which still enjoy the privilege of having states of their own, the provinces of France which are supposed to be the best governed


    19. The greater part of the citizens, or those who governed the greater part of them, fought in defence of their own importance, which, they foresaw, was to be at an end whenever the ancient government should be re-established


    20. Your existence is governed by the

    21. hormones and not my mind that governed my actions


    22. It was as if nature had become the protector of this human endeavor, now being governed by the woods and the stream, not guardians, who’d pampered its every need over the years


    23. Except the process for an individual isn’t perfect – there are feed-throughs, echoes of your memories that aren’t governed by the effects of mass


    24. Reunion Island is the seat of government of the three islands and, at the time, was governed by Governor Rondoney, who was a


    25. this position and governed this very small but widespread island group with class


    26. House Caravine governed lands in Corsair to the southwest that were mostly farms and villages though the nobles lived behind high stone walls in a fortified town known as Auglem Watch


    27. remarked that he would rather be governed by the first two thousand people listed in the Boston telephone directory than by the members of the Harvard faculty


    28. The limit of their assistance governed by a mysterious ruling council who, by all accounts, had been against any intervention whatsoever


    29. I would be the first to argue that any orderly, well governed society requires the cooperation of all its (productive) citizens and that each should properly contribute his or her own proportionate ―fair‖ share of the burden otherwise required for public services available to every citizen regardless of income


    30. A society intoxicated by the dynamics of words rather than influenced by their factual substance (and meaning) is easily governed!

    31. Human ―motives‖ are therefore held as determinant or conclusive responses to antecedent events independent of Free Will; that is to say, infer a mindset pre-conditioned by prior events governing present decisions rather than governed by independent designs capable of responding rationally to unexpected events


    32. This in addition to liberal judges who have routinely used the bench to advance their own private prejudices without the formal consent of the governed; by judicial fiat and questionable constitutional interpretations conforming to their world views


    33. If so, it is hard to say if he would have governed somewhat like Reagan, or would have returned to his earlier reform efforts


    34. That happy August, Singapore came to be governed once again by the English until the decade of the 1960’s when Singapore became a totally independent state


    35. Rome was governed by ‘bread and circuses


    36. Concerning “the natural man”, the contrast between the soul, life, and spirit is a man governed by the Holy Spirit and one in whom the Holy Spirit is absent


    37. “The speed of the ship will be governed accordingly


    38. The “Dance of Dominance” among these gods was governed mostly by the success or failure of these cities in their wars with each other


    39. 6 For in the old time also, when the proud giants perished, the hope of the world governed by your hand escaped in a weak vessel, and


    40. Rosh and Abel of Arabel governed in the Land of Sand and Stone, which is located on the connection between the Realm of the Underworld and the Realm of Water

    41. Elijah was not living in that Land anymore as he had taken residence in the castle in the Heavens and governed from there


    42. verge of destruction, with tears he angrily threatened his friends, saying, 24 you have governed badly; and have exceeded tyrants in


    43. This circumstance, then, is by no means an objection, that some who have weak reasoning, are governed by their passions: 21 Since


    44. The word “republic” is generally understood to refer at a minimum to a governmental arrangement based on law, acting as a guardian of property and personal rights, and in which the people governed have a voice


    45. They do not know that the United States of America is now governed by children—or that they are the children


    46. All things are governed by it


    47. If the world were governed by women, would there be peace? Would we be at peace if all the world were Christians? Would the world be at peace with children running things?


    48. Notice that all of the bodily functions governed by HGH are


    49. They use profanity extensively to display their desire to not be a part of a hypocritical society governed by organized crime


    50. As a result of that transfer, the United States has governed the island of Puerto Rico, and the San Juan castles, which have never completely relinquished their constant vigilant status, are today principally custodians of five centuries of an inheritance rich in history and in culture













































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    "governed" definitions

    the body of people who are citizens of a particular government