6 sentences with 'governed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word governed and other words derived from it.
• « Once the war was over, the so-called "Great Captain" governed Naples for four years; but, when the queen died, Ferdinand, paying attention to the envious who accused the military man of spending money hand over fist, took the command from him, called him to Spain and demanded an account from him. »
• « Private law governed disputes between individuals (e.g., property suits, disputes between business partners), while public law governed disputes between individuals and the government (e.g., violent crimes that were considered a threat to the social order as a whole). »
• « Trajan's achievements deserve special mention, not only for his success in expanding the Empire, but for the way he governed it. »
• « Access to the commons was not based on written laws, but on the traditional, centuries-old agreements that governed interactions between different social classes. »
• « Instead, most physicians continued to rely on the work of the Greek physician Galen, who in the 2nd century CE had elaborated the Aristotelian idea of the four "humours" that supposedly governed health: blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. »
• « Most Enlightenment thinkers argued that the "real" natural universe was governed by natural laws, all watched over by a benevolent but utterly remote "supreme being" - this was essentially the same as the deism that had emerged from the Scientific Revolution. »