21.   Their status codes now govern social life.

22.   These are guidelines governing even life on the playground.

23.   They want to argue their case from within the Sharia, the Islamic legal code that governs their lives, not just from a secular perspective.

24.   We are introduced to a series of characters whose conversations brush up against the petty superstitions that govern daily life.

25.   While segregation governed life in town, she says, on Magnolia blacks and whites raced horses together and played on the plantation baseball team, the Black Magnolias.

26.   Police are hard-pressed in their investigation into the rivalry among nationalist movements because of the laws of silence that traditionally govern Corsican life.

27.   Culture, he says, is a deep structure that governs our lives.

28.   He won a landslide victory in May, chosen by many who hope that he will ease the strict code that governs daily life in Iran.

29.   His life has been governed by duty, by the knowledge that one day he will be king.This sense of obligation has been both a curse and a blessing.

30.   Khatami wants to loosen the strict Islamic rules that govern everyday life in Iran, from what women wear to whether people can watch foreign television.