The existing list chiefly covers domestic governing bodies but will be expanded to include the IOC, the International Cricket Council, Uefa, Fifa, the International Tennis Federation, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association and the International Rugby Board.
When NATO defence ministers meet in London on September 18th, a big question will be how to defend existing members, chiefly the Baltic states, which are small, weak and on Russia's border.
This would be little different from the existing system of appointment chiefly by whips.
There is an inherent conservatism to the legal profession, owing to its commitment to working chiefly through existing institutions and to the fact that law itself is predominantly intended to satisfy expectations arising from inherited patterns of behaviour.
The funds - from the annual $1.5bn of chiefly military aid - will mainly be used to pay existing defence contracts.
In what follows, therefore, we constrain ourselves (chiefly) to the comparatively "messy" interventions that seem most likely based on existing neuroscientific knowledge and present or near-future means of chemical administration.
The ability of existing therapies to target various aspects of the insulin resistance syndrome induces other metabolic abnormalities, chiefly those involved in lipid metabolism.
Michael McGuffin, president of the American Herbal Products Association, which represents makers of supplements, said the problems with ephedra might come chiefly from people taking too much or taking it when they should not because of existing health problems.
The system consists chiefly of pre-existing off-the shelf components: a blood glucose sensor and an insulin pump, which is controlled remotely by a mobile phone.
