7 sentences with 'govern'
Example sentences and phrases with the word govern and other words derived from it.
• « In addition, the Romans established the Law of Nations to govern the territories it began to conquer in Italy; it was an early form of international law based on what were believed to be universal rules of justice. »
• « To try to govern this vast new empire effectively, the Umayyads took over and adapted the bureaucracies of the peoples they conquered, including those of the Byzantines and especially the Persians. »
• « The Germanic peoples themselves had begun as minorities, ruling over former Roman subjects. They tended to inherit the Roman bureaucracy and to rely on its officials and laws to govern their subjects, but they also had their own traditions of Germanic law based on clan membership. »
• « Charlemagne organised his empire into counties, ruled by counts (appropriately enough), usually his military followers but sometimes commoners, all of whom were sent to govern lands to which they had no personal ties. »
• « Voltaire recognised the power of ignorance and outmoded traditions to govern human behaviour, and expressed considerable scepticism that society could be significantly improved. »
• « In short, Marx did not leave a clear picture of what socialists were supposed to do, politically, nor did he describe how a socialist state would function if a revolution succeeded. This only mattered historically because socialist revolutions succeeded, and those nations had to try to figure out how to govern in a socialist way. »