Two forms of the game, association croquet and golf croquet, have rules that are agreed internationally and are played in many countries around the world.

The current world rankings show England in top place for association croquet, followed by Australia and New Zealand sharing second place, with the United States in fourth position ; the same four countries appear in the top six of the golf croquet league table, below Egypt in top position, and with South Africa at number five.

* European Fair Trade Association, an association of eleven Fair Trade importers in nine European countries.

Finland's foreign politics before this deal had been varied: independence from Imperial Russia with support of Imperial Germany in 1917 ; participation in the Russian Civil War ( without official declaration of war ) alongside the Triple Entente 1918 – 1920 ; a non-ratified alliance with Poland in 1922 ; association with the neutralist and democratic Scandinavian countries in the 1930s ended by the Winter War ( 1939 ); and finally in 1940, a rapprochement with Nazi Germany, the only power able to protect Finland against the expansionist Soviet Union, leading to the Continuation War in 1941.

The German Confederation () was the loose association of 39 states created in 1815 to coordinate the economies of separate German-speaking countries.

During the 1970s and 1980s some countries forbade import of the Krugerrand because of the association with the apartheid government of South Africa, which has since been abolished.

Sometimes the term Scandinavia is also taken to include Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Finland, on account of their historical association with the Scandinavian countries.

Uruguay also is a member of the Latin American Integration Association ( ALADI ), a trade association based in Montevideo that includes 10 South American countries plus Mexico and Cuba.

Several countries that geographically located in Asia were also admitted to the European football association, particularly Israel and Kazakhstan that in the past were members of the Asian football association.

The association shares the World Bank's mission of reducing poverty and aims to provide affordable development financing to countries whose credit risk is so prohibitive that they cannot afford to borrow commercially or from the Bank's other programs.

Throughout its lifetime, 36 borrowing countries have graduate from the association, although a number of these countries have relapsed as borrowers after not sustaining their graduate status.

Because African countries face some of the most severe poverty and underdevelopment, and because 39 of those countries are the IDA's poorest member states, the association allocates approximately half of the IDA's resources toward financing projects in those countries.

Though the scope of the term differs amongst various countries, some examples of civil liberties include the freedom from slavery and forced labor, freedom from torture and death, the right to liberty and security, freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association, freedom of speech, the right to privacy, the right to due process, the right to a fair trial, the right to own property, the right to defend one's self, the right to bodily integrity, and the right to keep and bear arms.

* The FLO International ( Fairtrade International ), created in 1997, is an association of three producer networks and twenty national labeling initiatives that develop Fairtrade standards, license buyers / label usage and market the Fair trade Certification Mark in consuming countries.

to make the revolution permanent until all the more or less propertied classes have been driven from their ruling positions, until the proletariat has conquered state power and until the association of the proletarians has progressed sufficiently far – not only in one country but in all the leading countries of the world – that competition between the proletarians of these countries ceases and at least the decisive forces of production are concentrated in the hands of the workers.

The Archimedes won significant market share in the education markets of the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand ; the success of the Archimedes in British schools was due partly to its predecessor the BBC Micro and later to the Computers for Schools scheme organised by the Tesco supermarket chain in association with Acorn, and most students and pupils in these countries in the early 90s were exposed to an Archimedes or A-series computer.

ISM is a not-for-profit educational association that serves professionals and organizations with an interest in supply management in more than 80 countries.

Belgium actively seeks improved relations with the new democracies of central and eastern Europe through such fora as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, EU association agreements, and NATO's Partnership for Peace with the former Warsaw Pact countries and several others.

A 2011 note for the International Monetary Fund by Andrew G. Berg and Jonathan D. Ostry found a strong association between lower levels of inequality in developing countries and sustained periods of economic growth.

The editorial was based on a news association dispatch which said that the telegraphers had secured an agreement whereby they were guaranteed 40 hours' pay per week whether they worked or not and that a reduction in their number was limited to 2 per cent per year.

The Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración ( the Latin American Integration Association ; known as ALADI or, occasionally, by the English acronym LAIA ) is a Latin American trade integration association, based in Montevideo.

An economy based on economic planning ( either through the state, an association of worker cooperatives or another economic entity that has jurisdiction over the means of production ) appropriates its resources as needed, so that allocation comes in the form of internal transfers rather than market transactions involving the purchasing of assets by one government agency or firm by another.

An association of law schools had argued that allowing military recruiting at their institutions compromised their ability to exercise their free speech rights in opposition to discrimination based on sexual orientation as represented by DADT.

Profession in Dartford Priory seems, then, to have been made based on personal commitment, and one's personal association with God.

While the article specifically prohibits discrimination based on " sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status ", the last of these allows the court to extend to Article 14 protection to other grounds not specifically mentioned such as has been done regarding discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation.

Cash out is not available in association with credit card sales because on credit card transactions the merchant is charged a percentage commission based on the transaction value, and also because cash withdrawals are treated differently to purchase transactions by the credit card company.

Hellas Verona Football Club ( commonly known simply as Verona, or Hellas within the city of Verona itself ) is a professional Italian association football team, based in Verona, Veneto.

He had a fruitful association with engineer Roger Mayer who later went on to make the Axis fuzz unit, the Octavia octave doubler and several other devices based on units Mayer had created or tweaked for Hendrix.

Juventus Football Club S. p. A. () ( from Latin iuventus: youth, pronounced ), commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve ( pronounced ), are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont.

* Mediterranean Universities Union, association of universities based in the Mediterranean basin

Henry Maine in his analysis of the historical changes and development of human societies noted the key distinction between traditional societies defined as " status " societies based on the legal position of the Individual in regards to the rest of society, family association and functionally diffuse roles for individuals ; and modern " progressive " societies defined as " contract " societies where social relations are determined by contracts pursued by individuals to advance their interests.

In reality most phobias are irrational, in that the subconscious association causes far more fear than is warranted based on the actual danger of the stimulus ; a person with a phobia of water may admit that their physiological arousal is irrational and over-reactive, but this alone does not cure the phobia.

It also rejects any " colonial or territorial status " as a status option, and vows to keep working for the enhanced Commonwealth status that was approved by the PPD in 1998 which included sovereignty, an association based on " respect and dignity between both nations ", and common citizenship.

Many of London's pubs are known to have been used by famous people, but in some cases, such as the association between Samuel Johnson and Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, this is speculative, based on little more than the fact that the person is known to have lived nearby.

Rousseau appears to have believed " that natural association is based on reciprocally free and equal respect between people.

According to the Constitution, no political association may be formed if it is " based on differences in religion, language, race, gender, or region.

In psychology and psychiatry, clanging refers to a mode of speech characterized by association of words based upon sound rather than concepts.

Despite appearances, however, there are no rules to the game, and both the naming of stations and the specification of " rules " are based on stream-of-consciousness association and improvisation.

In the Transport Layer ( Layer 4 ) the cable modem supports UDP in association with its own IP address, and it supports filtering based on TCP and UDP port numbers to, for example, block forwarding of NetBIOS traffic out of the customer's LAN.

A mnemonic link system, sometimes also known as a chain method, is a method of remembering lists, based on creating an association between the elements of that list.

In 1908, a group of young Esperanto speakers around Hector Hodler founded an international association based on individual, direct membership: Universala Esperanto-Asocio, seated in Geneva.