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Example sentences for: governed

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From the 12th to 14th centuries Athens found itself governed by a number of European nobles from Florence, Catalonia, and Burgundy.
The notion of “appropriate roles in life” still governed relations among equals and it would take decades for Americans to grasp that the politics of equality can not brook the coercion of women into domestic, apolitical roles, nor could some misguided theory of social organization tolerate the relegation of blacks to a limited number of lower-status professions.
Self-educated visionary Cola di Rienzo governed briefly in 1347 until the nobles drove him out.
It also did not want to be viewed as targeting persons in the United States and possibly violating laws that governed NSA's collection of foreign intelligence.
LSC grantees consist of hundreds of local organizations governed, in the typical case, by local boards of directors.