The phrase ‘govern conduct’ is correct and usable in written English.
It is most often used to refer to the rules, regulations, or code of behaviour that somebody should abide by. For example, “The company’s employee handbook is designed to govern conduct in the workplace.”.
Blatter's principal proposal is to have a strengthened ethics committee which will govern conduct internally, its members elected by the national football associations whose conduct it will police.
Three principles established by the conventions generally govern conduct during war: (1) targets should include only combatants and legitimate military and industrial complexes; (2) combatants should not use unjust methods or weapons (e.g., torture and genocide); and (3) the force used should be proportionate to the end sought.
"The American people have a reasonable expectation that these links will be transparent and allow for no appearance of a conflict of interest," she told a House Rules subcommittee that has started the process of preparing new guidelines to govern conduct during the next Congress, starting in January.
At any given point in time, a practice has a set of established understandings, procedures and objectives that govern conduct within that practice, often without much reflection or conscious awareness.
Professional ethical codes govern conduct in (and thereby protect) the architectural profession and avert problems related to business, fiduciary, insurance, or liability functions; the design function is an ethical focus relative to disability.
Today's interconnected, uncertain global environment has changed how we govern, conduct business, and act in the public good.
The federal government generally does not pass laws governing conduct behind the wheel; it sets a standard for the states and makes adherence a condition of receiving highway aid.
Most Plains tribes had definite rules governing conduct between marriage partners and their opposite-sex parents-in-law.
Commissioner Paul Tagliabue has the authority to discipline Chmura under the rule governing conduct detrimental to the league; he has great leeway in punishing players.
Space law, the body of regulations in international law that governs conduct in and related to areas of space above Earth's lower atmosphere.
The obligation to pay compensation can be, indeed is designed to be, a potent method of governing conduct and controlling policy.' San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon, 359 U.S. 236, 247 (1959)." Id., at 521.
