Sentence examples similar to house govern from inspiring English sources

We were banking on that night being like every other night in the house, governed by the mind-numbing clockwork routine — prayer followed by dinner, followed by prayer, followed by bedtime for everyone but the two boys on guard duty, who would sit outside, talking idly in the darkness.

Polls suggest that if there were a new election soon, no party would win large enough a majority in the lower house to govern effectively.

A majority is needed in both houses to govern.

Such an elaborate building, for example, would have been necessary to house a governing bureaucracy and specialized craft production.

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.

Made up of banks, hedge funds, and investment houses, it governs the murky world of complex financial instruments that are traded directly between parties rather than on exchanges.

Along the periphery of many desert cities are housing developments governed by homeowners associations.

Susan Turley complained that different council housing rules governing unmarried and married people were unfair and took legal action against the London Borough of Wandsworth.

Public housing is governed by the Omaha Housing Authority, and public transportation is provided by Metro Area Transit.

Provincial agencies govern housing and pollution control.

Bricken said legislators are taking a page from the "tied-house rules" that govern the alcohol industry, where producers sell to distributors who sell to wholesalers and retailers.