These parallels could not make a novel, only a polemic, if they were not governed by the greatest restraint.
If humans are not governed by precisely the same laws of nature that govern other creatures, human nature and behavior cannot be explained on precisely the same grounds as we might explain the nature and behavior of other creatures.
"If Scotland gets rid of all these hangers-on and parasites in the system – if we say, 'We're not governed any more by the House of Lords and the City of London' – then people in England are going to be thinking: 'Why do we have put up with this?' I think that's the big fear".
If your employee assets are not governed by federal law perhaps you are a teacher or policeman and your plan is a state-administered retirement system, you must check with your plan administrator to learn what is required to effect a legal spousal waiver in your retirement assets.
"If elected, I will not govern.
It's within his own party that the Bush record is repudiated and rejected, in favor of a more radical brand of conservatism that cannot win national elections and could not govern if it did.
Lawyers for Mr. Berlusconi argued that he could not govern if he was constantly fighting his own legal battles — a question many in the opposition will surely use as ammunition now that he has in fact lost the case.
If these principles did not govern our moral attitudes, we would end up attempting the impossible, and, if the point of morality is to guide action, then that is unreasonable: any action attempting the impossible is bound to be pointless.
But the rules were rarely, if ever, enforced and did not govern lobbyists.
The result was that black interests were sparsely represented if at all, something that most of the colony's whites showed little interest in changing; they claimed that most blacks were uninterested in Western-style political process and that they would not govern properly if they took over.
