He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social, cultural, or literary traditions than he was within the traditions -- or possibly the regulations -- governing his tenure in the post office at Oxford, Mississippi, thirty-five years ago.

But the internationalists have taken over the governing body of the bar, and when the lads met in St. Louis, it was not to grumble about the humidity but to vote unanimously that the United Nations was scarcely less than wonderful, despite an imperfection here and there.

The governing body of the abbey consists of the abbot, prior and the " convent " of Stiftsherren ( canons ).

* Amateur Softball Association, national governing body of Softball

* Amateur Swimming Association, UK governing body for swimming

The AFL became the de facto governing body when it pushed for the closure of the International Australian Football Council in 2002.

* Badminton Europe, the governing body of badminton in Europe

* British Eventing, the British governing body for the equestrian sport of eventing

In the 1860s, aided by the War, " New York " style baseball expanded into a national game, as its first governing body, The National Association of Base Ball Players was formed.

The Badminton World Federation ( BWF ) is the internationally recognized governing body of the sport.

The World Bridge Federation is the governing body for international competitive bridge.

The Benedictine Confederation, which was established in 1883 by Pope Leo XIII in his brief Summum semper, is the international governing body of the order, headed by the Abbot Primate.

Seat of the Universal House of Justice, governing body of the Bahá ' ís, in Haifa, Israel

In a non-stock corporation with no general voting membership, e. g., a typical university, the board is the supreme governing body of the institution ; its members are sometimes chosen by the board itself.

However, all factions retained their respective factional structure and the Bolsheviks formed the Bolshevik Center, the de-facto governing body of the Bolshevik faction within the RSDLP.

There he started driving for the Cooper Car Company works team and by 1958 had progressed with them to Formula One, the highest category of open wheel racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ), motor sport's world governing body.

* Confederation of African Rugby, the governing body for rugby unions in Africa

If there is a sense in which a card game can have an " official " set of rules, it is when that card game has an " official " governing body.

* The British Caving Association The national governing body for underground exploration in the UK.

For example, the Union Cycliste Internationale, the governing body of international cycle sport ( which sanctions races such as the Tour de France ), decided in the late 1990s to create additional rules which prohibit racing bicycles weighing less than 6. 8 kilograms ( 14. 96 pounds ).

The convention's governing body is the Conference of the Parties ( COP ), consisting of all governments ( and regional economic integration organizations ) that have ratified the treaty.

One of the problems facing these full-time teachers is the absence of international governing body for the certification or licenture of English language teachers.

The governing body in England is The Croquet Association, which has been the driving force of the development of the game.

Scotland is home to the international governing body for curling, the World Curling Federation, Perth, which originated as a committee of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club, the mother club of curling.

The USASF was formed in 2003 by the competition companies to act as the national governing body for all star cheerleading and to create a standard set of rules and judging standards to be followed by all competitions sanctioned by the Federation, ultimately leading to the Cheerleading Worlds.

On 4 March 2004, at a gala ceremony in London, to mark the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA ), the international governing body of football revealed the FIFA 100.

It was dropped in 1924, leading to the foundation of the Fédération Internationale de Hockey sur Gazon ( FIH ) as an international governing body by seven continental European nations, and hockey was reinstated in 1928.

The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.

The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA ), the sport's global governing body.

The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale and national airspace governing organizations control some aspects of hang gliding.

* Fédération Internationale de Motocyclismo ( FIM )-World governing body

The international governing body for most major show jumping competitions is the Fédération Équestre Internationale ( FEI ). The two most common types of penalties are jumping penalties and time penalties.

There is an active movement to make bowling an Olympic sport, especially by the Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs or FIQ, the world governing organization for nine and ten-pin bowling, and in 1998 ten-pin bowling was included for the first time as a sport at the Commonwealth Games.

* Formation of the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques ( USFSA ), the principal governing body of football in France until 1919 when it is superseded by the Fédération Française de Football ( FFF ).

The FIFA Women's World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA ), the sport's global governing body.

The flight covers a distance of 42, 432 km ( 26, 366 statute miles ), although the international governing body for aeronautic world records, the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale ( FAI ), accredits the distance as 40, 212 km ( 24, 972 statute miles ).

* Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme ( International Motorcycling Federation ), governing body of motorcycle racing

For example, the International Federation of Association Football ( FIFA ) is the IF for football ( soccer ), and the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball ( FIVB ) is the international governing body for volleyball.

* Fédération Djiboutienne de Football, the governing body of football ( soccer ) in Djibouti

The Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d ' Aviron, or FISA for short, is the International Rowing Federation which is the governing body for international Rowing.

It is the designated governing body of motorcycle sport in the US by the world governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme ( FIM ).

The International Roller Sports Federation or Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports ( FIRS ) is the world governing body for roller sports, including rink hockey, inline hockey, Inline speed skating and artistic roller skating.

In this role he drew up the first version of the Concorde Agreement, which settled a long-standing dispute between FOCA and the Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile ( FISA ), the then governing body of Formula One.

* Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Tennis, the governing body for tennis in Luxembourg

The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale ( FAI ) is the world governing body for air sports and aeronautics and astronautics world records.

The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme ( FIM, International Motorcycling Federation ) is the global governing / sanctioning body of motorcycle racing.

IFAB is made up of representatives from each of the United Kingdom's pioneering football associations — England's Football Association ( The FA ), the Scottish Football Association ( SFA ), the Football Association of Wales ( FAW ) and Northern Ireland's Irish Football Association ( IFA )— and Fédération Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA ), the international governing body for football.