Sentence examples for govern my from inspiring English sources

In short, I don't want it to govern my life.

"What I want is to govern my country well".

"I felt like I could govern my own hours, eat, sleep and study when I wanted to," he said.

I have a friendly relationship with the mysterious forces that govern my creative inspiration — my muses, if you will.

"I deeply feel that I failed to govern my family and it had a negative effect on the state," Bo said.

To be honest, I dislike writing by hand — the difficulty of finding the right surface, the wrist cramps that follow efforts to govern my unruly penmanship, the bird-track runes that result.

I had rules that governed my working life before Sept. 11.

"Fear has governed my life, if I think about it," he said.

The key factors governing my cooking at this time were poverty, lack of skill, and gastronomic conservatism.

That is indeed a harsh standard, and not one I want governing my life, or those of other people.

(From "The Oath": "I will understand and uphold, both in letter and spirit, the laws and contracts governing my own conduct and that of my enterprise").