Gateball, a sport originated in Japan under the influence of croquet, is played mainly in East and Southeast Asia and the Americas, it can also be regarded as a croquet variant.

The unique form of sport portrayed is fundamentally based on classical and " catch " wrestling, with modern additions of striking attacks, strength-based holds and throws, and acrobatic maneuvers ; much of these derive from the influence of various international martial arts.

At the time, boxing was the most popular sport in the country, with a cultural influence far in excess of what it is today.

Since 1950, Princeton has awarded the Hobey Baker Trophy to the " freshman hockey player who, among his classmates, in play, sportsmanship and influence has contributed most to the sport.

* The influence of Futurism on sport design

It is a very popular sport within the Latin American countries, and the Philippines owing to its Hispanic influence.

More modern fleets sport a North American influence.

The sport faded in importance after the fall of Rome in the West, surviving only for a time in the Byzantine Empire, where the traditional Roman factions continued to play a prominent role for some time, gaining influence in political matters.

The motivation for money ( either in rewards, salaries or advertising revenue ) is sometimes seen as a corrupting influence, tainting a sport.

The analogy is that the influence of chance in a skill game should not exceed the influence of chance in any other pro sport competition, such as golf or football.

The phrase " eight-hundred-pound gorilla ( in the room )" is a similar idiomatic expression ; however, it refers to a large, unstoppable individual or organization that can exert its will as it desires, even if people do their best to ignore it ( e. g. " Characterized by the leading fly-fishing trade journal as an ' 800-pound gorilla ' in the fly-fishing industry, Orvis is recognized for its ' unparalleled influence on the sport '.

While fans act as the consumers of the teams product's and events, non-fans can also " have significant influence as voters on sport facility subsidization referenda.

The West Coast lacks the influence of the warm Gulf Stream current, and most big game species are mainly confined to California, a birthplace of the sport.

While the sports department within some newspapers has been mockingly called the toy department, because sports journalists do not concern themselves with the ' serious ' topics covered by the news desk, sports coverage has grown in importance as sport has grown in wealth, power and influence.

FIFA quickly granted a provisional membership and USFA began exerting its influence on the sport.

Association football is a national sport in England, where the first modern set of rules for the code were established in 1863, which were a major influence on the development of the modern Laws of the Game.

On 22 January 1985, Lloyd was made an honorary Officer of the Order of Australia for his services to the sport of cricket, particularly in relation to his outstanding and positive influence on the game in Australia.

This influence may be multifaceted, involving economics, media control, politics, banking and finance, education, culture, sport, and all aspects of human resource development ( including recruitment and training of workers ).

These nations, particularly Australia, would go on to excel in the sport and gain significant influence over it over the following century.

As a high-profile sportsman, Starostin came into close contact with Alexander Kosarev, secretary of the Komsomol ( Communist Union of Youth ) who already had a strong influence on sport and wanted to extend it.

* Silver Medal: Awarded to an individual who has occupied high office in FAI or in an aeronautical organization in one of its member countries, and in the discharge of their duties have shown exceptional powers of leadership and influence, to the benefit of the whole international air sport community.

Characterized by the leading fly-fishing trade journal as an " 800-pound gorilla " in the fly-fishing industry, Orvis is recognized for its " unparalleled influence on the sport " and outstanding customer service.

Europe's influence on sport is enormous.

Author of the Albany Plan Of Union, which, had it been adopted, might have avoided the Revolution, he fought the colonists' front-line battles in London, negotiated the treaty of alliance with France and the peace that ended the war, headed the state government of Pennsylvania, and exercised an important moderating influence at the Federal Convention.

In a small way this is illustrated by the nineteenth-century novelist who argued for the powerful influence of literature as a teacher of society and who illustrated this with the way a girl learned to meet her lover, how to behave, how to think about this new experience, how to exercise restraint.

When these fields are surveyed together, important patterns of relationship emerge indicating a vast community of reciprocal influence, a continuity of thought and expression including many traditions, primarily literary, religious, and philosophical, but frequently including contact with the fine arts and even, to some extent, with science.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

One's daily work becomes sacred, since it is performed in the field of influence of the moral law, dealing as it does with people as well as with matter and energy.

Certainly, he must recognize its power and attempt to ascertain its influence on the flow of history, but he must not confuse the natural and the mundane with the divine.

Gov. John M. Dalton, himself a lawyer and a man of long service in government, spoke with rich background and experience when he said in an address here that lawyers ought to quit sitting in the Missouri General Assembly, or quit accepting fees from individuals and corporations who have controversies with or axes to grind with the government and who are retained, not because of their legal talents, but because of their government influence.

In many societies, what we regard as corruption, favoritism, and personal influence are so accepted as consistent with the mores of officialdom and so integral a part of routine administrative practice that any attempt to force their elimination will be regarded by the local leadership as not only unwarranted but unfriendly.

To increase faculty influence and decrease tension, many presidents have established a standing advisory committee with which they can discuss problems frankly.

There is some indication from a limited number of interviews with members of the population that the element of power, primarily the voluntary influence of non-authoritative power, has been exerted on actors in the system, particularly in regard to mate selection.

The efforts of various interest groups to control or influence governmental decisions, particularly when taken in conjunction with the impact of industralization, led to a concentration of attention on the legislative power and the means whereby policy could be formulated and enforced as law through bureaucratic institutions.

Then in 1875, apparently in response to the nationalizing influence of the Civil War, Congress first gave the lower federal courts general authority -- concurrently with state tribunals -- to decide cases involving federal-right questions.

While this influence is a complex matter, depending upon personality factors in the individual as well as upon his social-class experience, there probably are some general statements about social-class background and educational policy that can be made with a fair degree of truth.

To his Harvard colleague, Josiah Royce, whose philosophic position differed radically from his own, James could write, `` Different as our minds are, yours has nourished mine, as no other social influence ever has, and in converse with you I have always felt that my life was being lived importantly ''.

Aristotle's influence over Alexander the Great is seen in the latter's bringing with him on his expedition a host of zoologists, botanists, and researchers.

Under the influence of several younger scholars, a new approach came to predominate among British anthropologists, concerned with analyzing how societies held together in the present ( synchronic analysis, rather than diachronic or historical analysis ), and emphasizing long-term ( one to several years ) immersion fieldwork.

Along with the enormous influence that his theory of structuralism exerted across multiple disciplines, Lévi-Strauss established ties with American and British anthropologists.

However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars.

The statue throws some light on an artistic centre which, with an independently developed harder, simpler, and heavier style, restricts Ionian influence in Athens.