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Example sentences for: governs

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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.
(1994), which governs recruitment, wages, housing, health and safety, vehicle safety standards, drivers' licensure and minimum vehicle insurance levels.
Six weeks ago a Times op-ed piece by political scientist Lucian Pye explored the formidable mindset that governs China today.
By contrast buckra , also a derogatory term for a `white person,' is first recorded in 1787 and is probably from an Efik word meaning `he who governs' and `white man.
Has ever a man been a better metaphor for the society he governs than Boris Yeltsin?