Sentence examples for chief governing from inspiring English sources

Both sides in the dispute draw heavily on the college's chief governing principle, known here as the Gentleman's Rule.

The Executive Council is the chief governing body of ASIL and oversees adoption of regulations, appropriation of money, the Society's publications, and other activities.

It became the chief governing body in Rome and tendered advice on home and foreign policy, on legislation, and on financial and religious questions.

Among those commitments is a plan to elevate enforcement of intellectual property rights to the State Council, China's chief governing body.

In fact, Elizabeth's restoration of the Senate as the chief governing body was only nominal (the country really being ruled by her private chancery), and the empress actually abolished some of her father's major reforms.

The Grand Field Council, made up of all officers of the rank of lieutenant major or higher, is the chief governing body.

In the several Daoist chapters of the Guanzi (book of "Master Guan"), another text of uncertain date, emphasis is placed on "the art of the heart (mind)"; the heart governs the body as the chief governs the state.

Unlike ordinary Portland cement system, water/solids ratio is not the chief factor governing strength of metakaolin-based geopolymers.

BOWING to pressure from team owners; race circuit managers; and Bernie Ecclestone, the series chief, the governing body of Formula One announced Wednesday that it would shelve a plan to require more fuel-efficient 4-cylinder engines on all of its racecars in 2013.

Random genetic drift was not only important; it was the chief force governing molecular evolutionary change.

Education historian and reform critic Diane Ravitch recently sent an open letter to Senator Lamar Alexander with recommendations for rewriting No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the nation's chief law governing elementary and secondary education.