Johnson matters because the IFS is seen as the ultimate arbiter on a range of issues that will have a bearing on the result on polling day: government spending totals, tax, the size of the budget deficit and living standards.
All we know is that its proponents wish that foreign criminals could "be more easily deported from Britain", and that the supreme court was the "ultimate arbiter of human rights matters in the UK".
More than 1,700 competitions have taken place in 66 countries since the 2004 founding of the World Cube Association, a governing body modeled after FIFA, the arbiter of international soccer.
The Queen, probably the world's leading arbiter of social and sartorial protocol – thanks to decades of state visits and experience of dress codes – takes her cue from her hosts, appropriating a colour or a national emblem within a garment that itself sits within her own clothing comfort zone.
"The Flying Tomato", as he was known, was the arbiter of style on the halfpipe, where he was eagerly imitated; it's fair to say that his uncontrollable 'do spawned its own imitators too.
For Spyros Mercouris, who is seen as the arbiter of improved cultural ties with China – the basis for the economic cooperation now taking root – that relationship is as much about the two nations shared sense of history as the very modern demands of globalisation.
But the 1996 reform that empowered the Trife as the final arbiter of any election is far superior to what came before, where a simple majority of the lower house of Congress sufficed to declare a vote valid.
Oil was used as an independent price arbiter for Dutch gas in the 1960s and then for Algerian and Norwegian gas in the 1970s because neither side could influence the supply and demand for it.
A PAS youth leader, Nasrudin Hasan, explains:"Adam Lambert's shows...are outrageous, with lewd dancing and a gay performance…This is not good for people in our country".The outrage was predictable from a party that has frequently positioned itself as a moral arbiter for all Malaysians.
It should have seemed the most dangerous of precedents to have the army cut short Egypt's first, barely begun experiment with full-scale democracy.It is not easy to see the 450,000 man force, long used to near-absolute autonomy, as an impartial arbiter of the popular will; it had its own reasons for wanting the Brothers out.
Overnight, a convicted criminal and political pariah became a responsible arbiter of the nation's fortunes.The importance of constitutional reform in Mr Renzi's mind cannot be overstated.
