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governing

/guhv-ern/US // ˈgʌv ərn //UK // (ˈɡʌvən) //

治理,管理,理事,执政

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
    • : to exercise a directing or restraining influence over; guide: the motives governing a decision.
    • : to hold in check; control: to govern one's temper.
    • : to serve as or constitute a law for: the principles governing a case.
    • : Grammar. to be regularly accompanied by or require the use of. In They helped us, the verb helped governs the objective case of the pronoun we.
    • : to regulate the speed of with a governor.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to exercise the function of government.
    • : to have predominating influence.

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Examples

  • One could probably do no better, though, than the title of Heaven 17’s album, “Penthouse and Pavement” — the twin battlegrounds governing British life and sophisti-pop’s concerns.

  • Last fall, Bjerg signed a new contract with TSM, one in which he secured part-ownership of the organization, a groundbreaking contract term that required special approval from the league’s governing body.

  • The council last month approved new rules governing e-scooter services.

  • Conditions in the Otay Mesa Detention Center violate Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s own standards as well as federal law governing the treatment of people with disabilities, a new report from Disability Rights California finds.

  • Finally, even if women politicians behaved the same as men politicians, their presence in governing institutions matters for democratic legitimacy.

  • This is not because of bad leaders, or polarized politics, but because of a governing structure that is fatally flawed.

  • The Millennial Action Project (MAP) seeks to engage young people in politics and give them more of a voice in governing.

  • The case against Wilson was never easy to make, given the special laws governing “justifiable homicides” in police shootings.

  • Anyway, President Obama is going to have to change his style of governing.

  • Rules governing how those professions were defined should have prevented most workers from being paid less than the minimum wage.

  • There are some men of great courage, and thus when the Audiencia was governing, it has had excellent successes.

  • Public corporations are formed for governing the people and are often called municipal corporations.

  • Better fitted for heading an army than governing the church, he was victorious over the Turks in battle.

  • Such actions are no longer crimes or thefts,—they are called governing, developing industry, becoming a financial power.

  • In regard to the governing body, there was to be one only—a mayor and common-council.