govern
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She would go on to govern for 15 years, turning the TMC into India's most successful regional party and herself into one of the country's most formidable opposition politicians.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
North Dakota is one of the few states with a multimember system, where two representatives and one senator govern together in the same district.
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026
"Whoever wants to govern has to be sensible," he told reporters earlier Friday, while underlining continuity in economic policy, citing respect for central bank independence and long-standing macroeconomic rules.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
"By understanding the physical laws that govern fire whirls, we can harness their power beyond oil spill remediation."
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 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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