Companies like Total must be careful they are not doing business with Iranian companies related to sanctioned organizations like the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the powerful Iranian military unit responsible for protecting the government at home and furthering its interests abroad.
FLW Outdoors, the largest sanctioning organization for sport fishing tournament tours, just finished its second year organizing college-level bass tournaments.
Arum said he has never made a payoff to any sanctioning organization for a ranking.
The sanctioning organization issued a reprimand and barred Mercedes from participating in a young driver test scheduled at Britain's Silverstone Circuit next month.
Arum and Kushner testified during a federal trial in Newark last summer that they had made payoffs to officials of the International Boxing Federation, a sanctioning organization, to influence its rankings.
The addition of Mazda's new diesel to the Daytona grid, and to the 11 Rolex series races that follow in 2013, was cultivated by Grand-Am, the road race sanctioning organization.
But in his own opening statement, Lee's lawyer painted a contrasting picture, in which he described Lee as the "proud creator" of the only major boxing sanctioning organization run by African-Americans.
The US joined 64 other countries in boycotting the 1980 Olympics, and by the time the 1984 Games were done, Larry Holmes was a few months away from helping to legitimise a new sanctioning organization in the IBF.
The documents underpin a civil racketeering lawsuit filed by the federal government against the I.B.F., in which prosecutors successfully sought the appointment of a monitor to oversee the sanctioning organization's operations.
Lawyers for the leaders of the International Boxing Federation, who are on trial for racketeering and seeking bribes in exchange for boxer rankings, said today that their clients are victims of a "selective prosecution" of the sport's only black-controlled sanctioning organization.
Cedric Kushner, the boxing promoter who grew up in South Africa, told a jury in federal court today that he had initially begun paying bribes to the leaders of the International Boxing Federation in 1987 to get the sanctioning organization to lift its ban on ranking boxers from South Africa.
