Collocations for govern - verb

effectively, well
directly
The colony was governed directly from Paris.

be fit to, be unfit to
He accused the opposition party of being unfit to govern.

Govern is used with these nouns as the subject:
convention, law, policy, regime, regulation, rule, treaty

Govern is used with these nouns as the object:
conduct, country, mechanism, movement, nation, practice, relation, territory, trade