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Example sentences for: govern

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The NYT fronts an exclusive from the New York Senate campaign trenches: At a private fund-raiser organized by gay and lesbian supporters, Hillary Clinton said that the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy crafted by her husband to govern gays in the military was a failure, and that if elected she would work to overturn it.
Until Clinton does that, says the column, his ability to govern is paralyzed no matter what Kenneth Starr does.
The danger is that instead of returning to power as spirited reform liberals, the Democrats would govern as a devious, dispirited version of their old selves.
3) Challenge: Dare you rise to the occasion, like Raskolnikov, and reject the petty rules that govern lesser men?
The RPH who must legislate or govern (Gingrich, Kasich, Bush) is quieter about his principles--probably because he actually has to live by them.