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Example sentences for: governs

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The hierarchy of generally accepted accounting principles4 (GAAP) governs what constitutes GAAP for all U.S. government reporting entities.
Six weeks ago a Times op-ed piece by political scientist Lucian Pye explored the formidable mindset that governs China today.
It governs the beauty of the shoe.
I couldn't watch it in real-time because I was co-hosting a party of 100 or so welcoming the new New York Times bureau chief in Houston to Texas, and not a single person here in Austin, where George W. Bush lives and governs, seemed even to know or care that he and the five other Republicans were having at it while we made polite conversation and munched mushroom rugalach.
The Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL), which governs this editorial and all other content in PLoS Biology , permits a number of uses of articles that are typically restricted and for which there is an immediate demand.