be governed by

Synonyms

depend resubmit

Antonyms

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Examples

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves. Plato

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. William Penn

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. Golda Meir

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity. Bob Dylan

These people in the North-East of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more than from anything else, from the whole of their past history, would prefer, I believe, to accept the government of a foreign country rather than submit to be governed by hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway. Bonar Law

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology. J. G. Ballard

Words in the phrase

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