govern
guh vern
- v bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
- v direct or strongly influence the behavior of
His belief in God governs his conduct - v exercise authority over; as of nations
Who is governing the country now? - v require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood
most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German
- Ever since Britain has had a Cabinet to govern it, a Cabinet Minister who could not bring himself to agree with his fellows was expected to resign.
- And we see him as a modern archetypea talented, disappointed man surrendering to an anger he cannot govern, an existential blackness he cannot understand.
- Certainly, many other parts of the brain govern concentration and attention, but the locus coeruleus does one other thing too: it regulates fever.