govern
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“It’s a test, really, of whether the state can govern well enough to convert that population into productivity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
“U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will ensure that immigration filings are decided based on the laws, regulations, and binding legal precedent that govern each case.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Glimmer is an open weight model, meaning users can download and modify the underlying rules that govern the AI system.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
In the new material, however, the bands govern the movement and statistical behavior of quantum states of light.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
In previous chapters I have described general relativity, the partial theory of gravity, and the partial theories that govern the weak, the strong, and the electromagnetic forces.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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Uefa - which governs European football - had earlier voted to boycott World Cups if the plans went ahead, and other governing bodies also voiced their opposition.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon -- whose National Party governs in a coalition with NZ First -- has condemned Peter's "inappropriate attention-seeking" comments.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
“What they have done is lower the standard for everything,” said Ali Khawar, a former senior official at the Department of Labor, which is charged with enforcing the federal law that governs retirement savings.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
On the republic’s 250th birthday, that is worth celebrating: not the government that governs us, but the restless, inventive, association-forming energy of the American people themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Recognition of this general principle found expression in the constitution of the council, variously called “Imbizo” or “Pitso” or “Kgotla,” which governs the affairs of the tribe.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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Reddit users congregate on various interest-led subreddits that are governed by their own rules and customs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
"A country cannot be governed by remote control while critical socioeconomic challenges go unaddressed," he said last week.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
By connecting non-inertial quantum effects with measurable particle behavior, the work opens a new direction for studying matter governed by the strong interaction.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Jareb Gleckel, legal director at Animal Outlook, said ritual slaughter is governed by different regulations, but that there is in some ways “less margin for error” than at conventional commercial slaughter facilities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Monod and Jacob, working with Arthur Pardee, a microbial geneticist from America, discovered three cardinal principles that governed the regulation of genes.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Each race, governing body the FIA issues a sheet showing the declared upgrades each team has brought to that race.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Boston has unusually strict laws governing the sale and purchase of alcohol.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Merz was able to forge an awkward governing coalition with the center-left Social Democratic Party, the CDU’s longtime ideological opponents.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Beer, who was appointed chief executive in 2025, says the governing body did make efforts to build on the success, pointing to the 2018 Women's World Cup in London and growth in junior club participation.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
He now knew for sure that this theory was going to be the governing force of the rest of his life.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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