Sentence examples for governs him from inspiring English sources

It is an executive job, for whoever holds it controls access to Tenzing and thereby governs him to a large extent.

It is by means of this superiority in talent that she keeps herself his equal and that she governs him while obeying him.

Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him?

They do govern him, finally, releasing him from chains more terrible than those that now shackle his beloved would-be father.

His company there was an elderly woman who kept house and "governed him", and a pet fox which lived in a "tub" in the yard.

Implicit in the novel is the awareness that, if Pip doesn't let his better feelings govern him, he will die in the spirit.

He is not one of those critics motivated by anger, nor does he harp on purity: rather, a sweet reasonableness and refreshing non-insistence govern him.

He planned sunny drives in hired victorias, but often the mystical "Powers" which governed him intervened.

Some political questions can be reasonably answered without reference to libertarian orthodoxies, such as the one I asked about the principles that would govern him in making legislative compromises, and together we summarized his answer as "common sense".

"Repeated doses of infinitesimal amounts of fluoride will in time reduce an individual's power to resist domination, by slowly poisoning and narcotising a certain area of the brain, thus making him submissive to the will of those who wish to govern him," Perkins wrote.

Mrs. Mason takes the girls to Charles Townley's ruined mansion to tell them the cautionary tale of a "boy of uncommon abilities, and strong feelings"; unfortunately, "he ever permitted those feelings to direct his conduct, without submitting to the direction of reason; I mean, the present emotion governed him.