govern

IPA: gˈʌvɝn

(transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
(intransitive) To exercise political authority; to run a government.
(transitive) To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
(transitive) To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
(intransitive) To have or exercise a determining influence.
(transitive, obsolete) To handle, to manage, to oversee (a matter, an affair, a household, etc.).
(transitive) To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
(transitive, obsolete) To direct the course of, to guide in some direction, to steer.
(transitive, obsolete) To look after, to take care of, to tend to (someone or some plant).
(transitive, obsolete) To manage, to control, to work (a tool or mechanical device).
(transitive, grammar) To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.

Examples of "govern" in Sentences

A wise person once said that "to govern is to choose."
But the local officials 'connection to the people they govern is thin.
"This may infuriate his base, but to win back independents he has to govern from the center."
And if we are going to govern well, we will govern from a conservative perspective, Scott said.
Four times Democrats have won control of both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, and four times they have attempted to govern from the left.
The remedy: govern from the center, try even harder to be bi-partisan, and stop criticizing Wall Street and bring some CEOs onto the White House team.
American politics is turning right because Democratic leaders tried to govern from the hard ideological left, even over the objections of their own rank and file and the larger public.
He knows Republicans can't govern from the House, so his challenge will be picking the issues on which he might be able to succeed, or at least frame the agenda for the election of 2012.
"Not an ideal candidate, Brady's personal views veer to the right of our tastes and the well-being of the state, but we take him at his word that he won't push a social agenda as governor and we call on him to govern from the middle."
Here is the authority, from God himself, to hold men and women, and their increase, in slavery, and to transmit them as property forever; here is plenary power to govern them, whatever measure of severity it may require; provided only, that _to govern_, be the object in exercising it.