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governed

adjective as in controlled

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Moving the action to Seattle brings a lot less of it – it’s a wild, dangerous place strangled in conflict, governed by a military sect that makes Jackson’s militia look like a hippie horse club.

From Salon

“All of this is what it means, and what it feels like, to be governed by billionaires,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

Derek Millard-Smith, a specialist lawyer in the UK parking sector, said parking on private land was generally governed by contract law.

From BBC

“The defendants have abandoned their duty, placing ideology over obligation and governance over the governed.”

In his first term, Trump negotiated a detailed trade deal, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, that replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement and governed trade practices among the United States and its closest trading partners.

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