Definition of "governs" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of govern. (verb)

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• "The meaning of ˜child™ is not shifting because the first occurrence of the term governs all the subsequent clauses (thanks to ˜too™)."
• "Ken Kersch's essay notes how, rather than understand some regimes as more committed to civil liberties than others, we will better understand the New Deal regime as committed to a different set of civil liberties than the previous regime, that part of the way a regime governs is by creating a history in which its notion of right is identified with right per se, and rival notions of rights and reconceptualized as oppression."
• "My word governs the disposal of the Long Shot and the second quantum hyperdrive, and I am still Hindmost aboard this ship."