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Example sentences for: governed

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He then accused Brent and Yale of having "caved" in to the ethos of "historical correctness" governed by "revisionists who dismiss as cold war humbug the notion that the Soviet Union was a totalitarian country."
On the other hand, there is evidence that the transition to flowering is not governed by a universal set of signals.
Congress governed the Caribbean island directly as a territory until 1952, when it expanded Puerto Rican autonomy by making it a "commonwealth," allowing it to adopt a constitution and create a locally elected government with statelike powers.
I believe the current level of taxation is illegitimate because it is done without the consent of the governed.
From the 12th to 14th centuries Athens found itself governed by a number of European nobles from Florence, Catalonia, and Burgundy.