Sentence examples for govern things from inspiring English sources

Opiates activate the receptors that govern things like analgesia and pleasure, hence the intense "high" from heroin.

He knows about the laws of nature that govern things like musculature and respiration and heart rate.

Regulators have unleashed a flood of new regulations and initiatives in recent months, including a promise to create national standards to govern things like cooking oils and the fillings of baked goods.

In doing so Plato is disagreeing with Archytas' attempt to determine the numbers that govern things in the sensible world.

Another issue is the fact that one can generate different logics, not by varying the rules governing any particular expression, but rather by varying the more general structural rules of the logic, which govern things like whether or not one is allowed multiple conclusions, and whether or not a premise can be used more than once in a proof.

One could be built within 12 nautical miles of Britain's coastline, but only with permission from the government and as long as it did not infringe on international laws governing things like the protection and preservation of the marine environment, according to Dr Alexandros Ntovas, an expert in maritime law at the University of Southampton.

The F.A.A. says that it seeks to prevent fatigue through rules governing things like aircraft design and maintenance and that pilots are also trained to handle emergencies that could be caused by fatigue.

The aim is to impose standards governing things like decency and advertising on these new forms of video, but critics regard the rules as too heavy-handed.Convergence will make the need for a common set of European rules more pressing as operators begin, for the first time, to venture onto each other's home turfs.

The reason, he explains, is that universal interactivity (systema universalis substantiarum commercium, 1 415.40) reveals the origin of the connection governing things, an origin that completely escapes ordinary physical influence because this theory looks at substances in isolation (1 416)—ignoring what happens among them, the dynamic "between".

Nine in ten Egyptians are Sunni Muslims and expect Islam to govern such things as marriage, divorce and inheritance.

The relationship was so striking that, according to the rules of maths that govern such things, you could say with great confidence that the results were very unlikely to be merely random.