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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
governing
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the rules concerning/governing/relating to sthformal (= the rules about something)
▪ the rules governing food labeling
the ruling/governing coalition
▪ The March elections may weaken the ruling coalition.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
body
▪ This will permit appropriate fees and expenses to be paid directly to the coaches by the governing body concerned.
▪ Most important is discussion of curriculum planning and curriculum carrying-out by you and your governing body.
▪ Some governing bodies have been sensitive to this danger and have established committees and structures involving teachers other than the teacher-governors.
▪ It is hoped that governing bodies will be fully represented with, where possible, their Drug/Doping Liaison Officer.
▪ All the movement organisations are seen as falling within this area, which also covers all governing bodies of sport and recreation.
▪ Most successful governing bodies send their entry away for at least ten days' intensive training prior to a world event.
▪ Such a decision, taken through the prescribed secret ballot procedures, could ultimately be imposed by parents on a governing body.
class
▪ Both were ambassadors to Rome for their own cities - that is, they were very acceptable to the governing class of Rome.
▪ While Cato was still alive the Roman governing class made a determined effort to get to know the Celts better.
▪ Sometimes, particularly in his later writings, Pareto refers to the governing class or governing classes.
▪ The traditional governing class with deep roots in the landed aristocracy was gradually displaced as the Third Reich consolidated its position.
elite
▪ The absence of alternation also has consequences for the governing elite.
▪ For him, regulationism meant adherence to the values and ordered hierarchy of the governing elite as much as to sanitary reform.
party
▪ The competitive situation keeps the governing party on its toes and sensitive to the public's view of policy.
▪ These professional persuaders will spend an estimated two million pounds to bend the ears of the governing party.
▪ I understand why he chose this country, where the governing party is never rude, even when provoked, and unfailingly considerate.
▪ There has been a rising chorus of opposition to the governing parties from across the political spectrum.
▪ Fifty-four more companies - just over a third - giving to the governing party were thanked with knighthoods.
▪ Successive state elections have seen the governing parties pummelled by a dismayed electorate.
▪ The governing party doesn't really have a position in the country.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the governing New Democracy Party dismissed calls for an early general election.
▪ Most schools reorganised their governing bodies in Autumn 1988.
▪ Successive state elections have seen the governing parties pummelled by a dismayed electorate.
▪ The governing body's decision was guided by three very important considerations: principle, existing practice, and time.
▪ The governing body is charged with managing the school within its delegated budget.
▪ The £100 will be paid directly to each governing body selected.
▪ The final selection will be based on local requirements and the information returned from governing bodies wishing to be considered for inclusion.
▪ Their recommendation to the governing body was not to establish a structure of sub-committees.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Governing

Governing \Gov"ern*ing\, a.

  1. Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state.
    --Jay.

  2. (Gram.) Requiring a particular case.

Governing

Govern \Gov"ern\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Governed; p. pr. & vb. n. Governing.] [OF. governer, F. gouverner, fr. L. gubernare to steer, pilot, govern, Gr. kyberna^n. Cf. Gubernatorial.]

  1. To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority. ``Fit to govern and rule multitudes.''
    --Shak.

  2. To regulate; to influence; to direct; to restrain; to manage; as, to govern the life; to govern a horse.

    Govern well thy appetite.
    --Milton.

  3. (Gram.) To require to be in a particular case; as, a transitive verb governs a noun in the objective case; or to require (a particular case); as, a transitive verb governs the objective case.

Wiktionary
governing

vb. (present participle of govern English)

WordNet
governing

adj. responsible for making and enforcing rules and laws; "governing bodies"

governing

n. the act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of government" [syn: government, governance, government activity]

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Wikipedia
Governing (magazine)

Governing is a national monthly magazine, edited and published since 1987 in Washington, D.C., whose subject area is state and local government in the United States. The magazine covers policy, politics and the management of government enterprises. Its subject areas include such issues as government finance, land use, economic development, the environment, technology and transportation.

Governing was published by Washington, D.C.–based Congressional Quarterly, Inc., a subsidiary of the Times Publishing Co. of St. Petersburg, Florida. In 1994, Governing acquired its primary competitor, City & State magazine, and that publication was merged into Governing. In 2009, it was sold to e.Republic.

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Usage examples of "governing".

Only noblemen possess the finesse and acuity required to learn the skills of governing eotaurs and the fickle currents of the atmosphere.

Especially if they were of the anima, and enemies not only of the governing class but of the entire animus.

He also loosened the rules governing authorization for investigations and their duration.

A society controlled by the privileged few in the Central Consortium, the governing body, who fostered the undercurrent of conduct, superiority, and promotion of Avion to the rest of the universe.

In the years following the First Opium War disasters multiplied, taxes were increased upon the peasantry, corruption in the governing mandarinate became systematic, respect for authority declined, power decentralized, banditry flourished, sovereignty rotted at the center.

While by no means taking the highest rank as a debater, he was familiar with the complicated rules governing the House, and his opinion challenged the highest respect.

For this reason the educator should at least not violate the general principles governing all mental activity.

Even the northern branch, although left in possession of the throne, retained no governing authority whatever, and from this time on the emperorship was little more than a legitimating talisman for the rule of successive military houses.

If the question of rightful Emperorship is solved, I suspect the issue of who should be governing the outlying provinces will fade into the background.

In 1848 Congress enacted a statute governing this subject which confers upon the courts, both State and Federal, the duty of handling extradition cases.

Moreover, the Templars were in general uneducated, and capable only of wielding the sword, with no qualifications for governing, and at need enchaining, that queen of the world called Opinion.

It had its monarch the captain, its useless nobility the passengers, its technical and governing class, and its hewers of wood and drawers of water.

Chapter VIII Hybridism Distinction between the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids -- Sterility various in degree, not universal, affected by close interbreeding, removed by domestication -- Laws governing the sterility of hybrids -- Sterility not a special endowment, but incidental on other differences -- Causes of the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids -- Parallelism between the effects of changed conditions of life and crossing -- Fertility of varieties when crossed and of their mongrel offspring not universal -- Hybrids and mongrels compared independently of their fertility -- Summary.

All these forms of recrystallization within the community, large and small, arose because of the inadaptability and want of vigour and cooperation in the formal governing, economically directive and educational systems.

Now, obviously the knapper could not possibly have known the mathematical properties of a cone, nor the physical principles governing it, but he had learned from experience that if his rock did not assume a conical shape, it would not yield the flakes he sought, but if it did approximate a cone segment, the flakes would fly off in dazzling sequence.