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were governed
verb
To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
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The African people were not part of the government and did not make the laws by which they were governed.
The African people were not part of the Government and did not make the laws by which they were governed.
It's about time we were governed by the educated.
The provinces were governed by wālīs who enjoyed wide autonomy.
Those unions were governed both by common law and sharia.
Their villages were governed by headmen and councils of elders.
"They could never have done it that fast if they were governed by German labor laws".
These films were governed by a mission to document harsh experience.
While at the beach, we sensed more than ever that our lives were governed by luck.
Native Christians were governed according to the Assizes of the Court of the Bourgeois.
As in the müang system, the outer circles were governed by hereditary lords, or chao.
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