Слово "govern". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Did you realize that most people’s lives are governed by telephone numbers?”

There are regulations to govern the conduct of First Contact spaceships, rules drawn up in desperation and followed in despair, for what rule can predict the effect of any action upon the mentality of an alien people?

Then they ruled that the laws of our Synod should not govern them.

that governs the construction industry.

We're governed by the representations in memory

"There is a good possibility that I may soon be free of the death wish that has governed many of my actions since I was a child," she answered.

We're governed by the representations in memory

So we know that our nonverbals govern how other people

When she thought of her mother, her confidence gave way a little; but she would not allow that any objections there had material weight with Mr. Darcy, whose pride, she was convinced, would receive a deeper wound from the want of importance in his friend's connections, than from their want of sense; and she was quite decided, at last, that he had been partly governed by this worst kind of pride, and partly by the wish of retaining Mr. Bingley for his sister.