(v. t.) To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority.
(v. t.) To regulate; to influence; to direct; to restrain; to manage; as, to govern the life; to govern a horse.
(v. t.) To require to be in a particular case; as, a transitive verb governs a noun in the objective case; or to require (a particular case); as, a transitive verb governs the objective case.
(v. i.) To exercise authority; to administer the laws; to have the control.
Example Sentences:
(1) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
(2) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
(3) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
(4) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(5) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(6) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(7) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
(8) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
(9) People should ask their MP to press the government for a speedier response.
(10) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
(11) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(12) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
(13) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(14) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
(15) The mortality data were derived from the reports by Miyagi Prefectural Government.
(16) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
(17) Until recently, the control was thought to be governed by single, dominant genes, located within the I region of the H-2 complex.
(18) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
(19) Nevertheless, this LTR does not govern efficient transcription of adjacent genes in a transient expression assay.
(20) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
Gubernatorial
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to a governor, or to government.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conway has a long list of success stories when it comes to this kind of retooling, from helping GOP lawmakers change the way they talk about rape to helping Trump’s running mate Mike Pence polish his personality in ways that “kept him comfortable in his own skin” ahead of a gubernatorial reelection campaign, as Pence’s communications director recently told TPM .
(2) Ken Cuccinelli, the former Virginia attorney general who was beaten in a gubernatorial race by the Democratic fundraiser Terry McAuliffe and now runs the Senate Conservatives Fund, disagreed with Chaffetz about the desirability of another Romney run.
(3) It could also help sway pivotal senate and gubernatorial elections in the region, many of which have come down to a few hundred votes over the past decade and may do again as Republicans fight to regain control of the Senate next year.
(4) The plan, according to the indictments, was meant to punish the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee, Mark Sokolich, for refusing to endorse Christie during his most recent gubernatorial run.
(5) Meanwhile, Missouri's Democratic governor Jay Nixon looks safe in his gubernatorial re-election bid: Democratic incumbent Jay Nixon leads Republican challenger Dave Spence 53%-45%.
(6) In Wisconsin, the Milwaukee mayor, Tom Barrett, won the Democratic primary in the state's gubernatorial recall election, confirming him to go up against the Republican governor, Scott Walker, in June.
(7) Luzhkov had said he backs the return of direct gubernatorial elections, abolished by Putin in 2004.
(8) Still, only two years ago, Democrats reeled from a major setback when their high-profile gubernatorial candidate, Wendy Davis, was thrashed by Greg Abbott, losing by more than 20 points and setting the state legislature down an even more conservative path.
(9) November will also see elections for all 435 seats of the House of Representatives, where Republicans already have a strong majority, as well as 46 elections in state legislatures and 36 state gubernatorial elections.
(10) Aides to both leaders say an election was more democratic than a gubernatorial appointment.
(11) With nearly all votes counted Walker had nearly 53% versus 46% for his Democratic challenger, Tom Barrett, widening the lead from when the two faced off in 2010's gubernatorial election.
(12) This is an alternative to gubernatorial proficiency testing.
(13) Democrats had hoped Crist would give the party its first gubernatorial win in Florida in 20 years and put the state in friendly territory for the White House race.
(14) It says nothing of the Senate races that are not closely contested (in West Virginia , Republican Shelley Moore Capito, daughter of former governor Arch Moore, is likely to fill the seat vacated by retiring Democrat Jay Rockefeller, whose uncle Nelson was vice-president and New York governor) and the gubernatorial races (Georgia Democrat Jason Carter, grandson of former president Jimmy; New York Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo, son of governor Mario; California Democratic governor Jerry Brown, son of former governor Pat).
(15) Mizeur, a former state legislator and gubernatorial candidate, wrote on her Facebook page : “If the DNC doesn’t reverse its decision to give the Sanders campaign access to its voter file data again, I am ready to resign my post as a Democratic National Committeewoman from Maryland in protest.
(16) Rand Paul appeared to side with Bevin, the Republican nominee for the Kentucky gubernatorial race, and said in a radio interview that Davis’s protest is “part of the American way”.
(17) The insurgency’s impact on the election Nigeria’s presidential, parliamentary and state gubernatorial and assembly elections, scheduled for next month, are likely to be more contentious than usual.
(18) They learned from their mistakes in 2012.” In 30 years of observing North Carolina politics I’ve never seen the Republicans with such a sophisticated ground game But the advances it made in the mechanics of data-driven electioneering is just one part of a GOP success story that saw the party sweep to victory in eight out of nine key Senate races, regain control of the upper chamber, triumph in crucial gubernatorial contests and expand its control over the House of Representatives.
(19) Large-scale teacher protests are in prospect for Philadelphia after the city’s school board canceled a teachers’ union contract , an unprecedented move that could have ramifications for the upcoming gubernatorial election.
(20) The new governor has made it clear that he is watching lenders closely and they will be expected to respond to the raising of the gubernatorial eyebrows.