But the city the younger Mr. Stratton inherits is a shadow of the one his father, who went on to become a powerful congressman, once governed.

The Huu-ay-aht First Nations were once governed by hereditary chieftains.

The theatre that was once governed by its lead actors gradually became a director's theatre.

Secularization, on the other hand, is a process, the process by which matters once governed by religion shift into the control of nonreligious forces.

Once extensively governed by religious texts and authorities, these endeavors came to be seen as having their own laws, methods and authorities.

Henry had a passionate desire to rebuild his control of the territories that his grandfather, Henry I, had once governed.

All of Bengal was once governed from this town.

Successive lairds were forced to divide and sell, piece by piece, the lands once governed by the clan.

It was once governed by Ely, a fact lightly made much of by a politician of Stoke.

It is sufficient to say that Aaron and I were satisfied that the soul which had once governed my new body was gone beyond reprieve.