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The meaning of ˜child™ is not shifting because the first occurrence of the term governs all the subsequent clauses (thanks to ˜too™).

Vagueness Sorensen, Roy 2006

Ken Kersch's essay notes how, rather than understand some regimes as more committed to civil liberties than others, we will better understand the New Deal regime as committed to a different set of civil liberties than the previous regime, that part of the way a regime governs is by creating a history in which its notion of right is identified with right per se, and rival notions of rights and reconceptualized as oppression.

Balkinization 2006

My word governs the disposal of the Long Shot and the second quantum hyperdrive, and I am still Hindmost aboard this ship.

Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

My word governs the disposal of the Long Shot and the second quantum hyperdrive, and I am still Hindmost aboard this ship.

Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

A reader’s own taste governs is the only thing that governs their reading habits.

Are you enjoying the journey? at SF Novelists 2010

The crisis enables a President who governs from the centre-left — boldly, competently, openly, hopefully, appealing to people’s better instincts — to lead the country in far-reaching change.

Obama Books Dominate Political Best-Seller List - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

There is an Angolan Government that makes the decisions in that country, that governs, that is responsible for the country.

Castro Interview With Brazilian TV During Visit 1990

Where there is no statute regulation, the common law governs, which is, that nothing but death, or a decree of a competent court, can dissolve the marriage tie.

The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. Andrew W. Young

May it not be the far off cry of those your sword governs, creeping towards you across wide oceans till it pierces even into your inmost sanctuary?

Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland Olive Schreiner 1887

"Ah! _dam_!" said the captain, "now the king is come, there is no more walking for anybody -- no more free-will; the password governs all now, you as well as me, me as well as you."

The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836