Crossword-Solution: GOVERNS
We have 34 clues for the answer “GOVERNS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Wields a scepter | 1 answer |
| Runs, as a state | 1 answer |
| Rules by right of authority | 1 answer |
| Leads, as from a state capital | 1 answer |
| Holds office | 1 answer |
| Rules over | 2 answers |
| Rules | 15 answers |
| familiarises | 27 answers |
| utilises | 27 answers |
| administers | 29 answers |
| ACCUSTOMS | 29 answers |
| supervises | 30 answers |
| conducts | 30 answers |
| Habituates | 30 answers |
| regulates | 30 answers |
| operates | 31 answers |
| manipulates | 31 answers |
| applies | 31 answers |
| uses | 33 answers |
| Does | 34 answers |
| Employs | 36 answers |
| practices | 36 answers |
| directs | 38 answers |
| exercises | 39 answers |
| Treats. | 41 answers |
| manages | 42 answers |
| drives | 42 answers |
| Profits | 42 answers |
| Guides. | 42 answers |
| controls | 44 answers |
| works | 47 answers |
| Heads | 47 answers |
| Runs | 48 answers |
| Handles | 48 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GOVERNS (5)
Apostat, still thou errst, nor end wilt find Of erring, from the path of truth remote: Unjustly thou deprav’st it with the name Of _Servitude_ to serve whom God ordains, Or Nature; God and Nature bid the same, When he who rules is worthiest, and excells Them whom he governs.
This attracts the soul, Governs the inner man, the nobler part; That other o’er the body only reigns, And oft by force—which to a generous mind So reigning can be no sincere delight.
Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe—“That government is best which governs not at all;” and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
But with the judge it is otherwise; since he governs mind by mind; he ought not therefore to have been trained among vicious minds, and to have associated with them from youth upwards, and to have gone through the whole calendar of crime, only in order that he may quickly infer the crimes of others as he might their bodily diseases from his own self-consciousness; the honourable mind which is to form a healthy judgment should have had no experience or contamination of evil habits when young.
The Wheat is one force, the Railroad, another, and there is the law that governs them--supply and demand.
Quotes with GOVERNS (3)
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
For it is our most secret desire that governs and dominates all. If your eyes look for nothing but evil, you will always see evil triumphant; but if you have learned to let your glance rest on sincerity, simpleness, truth, you will ever discover, deep down in all things, the silent overpowering victory of that which you love.
— But here is a question that is troubling me: if there is no God, then, one may ask, who governs human life and, in general, the whole order of things on earth? — Man governs it himself, — Homeless angrily hastened to reply to this admittedly none-too-clear question. — Pardon me, — the stranger responded gently, — but in order to govern, one needs, after all, to have a precise plan for a certain, at least somewhat decent, length of time. Allow me to ask you, then, how can ma…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1989–2023).