Sentence examples similar to merely governed from inspiring English sources

But society is not only governed by laws.

This was not true: it had merely been atrociously governed for decades.

Variation was presented simply as governed by "unknown laws".

It seems the spreading of responsibility for dirty hands to the governed community merely adds to worries about the coherence of the concept.

As Pogge points out, when a multinational corporation buys the rights to something in one of these autocratically governed countries, "the purchaser acquires not merely possession, but all the rights and liberties of ownership which are … protected and enforced by all other states' courts and police forces" (Pogge 2002, 113).

The year is 1805, the Royal Navy is in its pomp and prime, and what Jack commands is not so much a vessel as a floating town — a kingdom in miniature, governed with sage severity and equipped not merely with cannons and muskets but with everything from violins to goats.

The civil, political law, founded ultimately upon the consent of the governed, does not cancel the natural law, according to Locke, but merely serves to draw that law closer.

Democratic government requires the consent of the governed.

But I assure you the Church is governed".

This "shadow government" operates without the consent of the governed.

He is also often described as the deviser of "the Queensberry Rules" that governed English boxing matches, although, in truth, the rules were merely named in his honour after he donated three prize cups to a boxing tournament in 1867.