Sentence examples for govern only from inspiring English sources

A sovereign government acquires the right to govern only when it keeps the governed safe.

Bush has so little credibility he can govern only through surrogates (Paulson is the new Petraeus).

The overlay district laws govern only new development, not whether a building can be razed, he said.

There is a liberal and a conservative America, and Mr. Bush is happy to govern only one of them.

Because the FA only has a remit to look at breaches of its rules, which govern only players, managers and officials.

Meanwhile, a caucus of unelected generals has been telling the Islamist prime minister that he can continue to govern only on their terms.

The memorandum governs only complaints made against government departments (so, for example, complaints against local authorities are not covered) and has clearly been heavily negotiated by the Department for Constitutional Affairs.

The community school boards governed only elementary and middle schools.

Online she has been governed only by her whims, however dark.

Should the arctic region be governed only by those countries that have territorial claims?

At first many of these rules governed only apartment complexes and larger properties with many units.