Sentence examples for governing play from inspiring English sources

That measure fell short of more stringent anti-concussion rules governing play in the International Ice Hockey Federation, which oversees the Olympics, international tournaments and European leagues.

In a standard doubleheader, the teams take turns in the two matches specifying which year of the baseball rules will govern play.

The strict rules that normally govern play are often ignored and the performers are usually between people well acquainted with one another, usually close family members.

Even in regulation play, no referees or line judges are used to govern play.

During formal performances adherents follow a traditional set of rules that would govern playing and it usually involved people from outside the home.

That sports and politics are intertwined is evident at every twist of the road from the direct involvement of rulers, politicians and governments in the boards and executive committees of regional and international sports associations to the use of mega events by nations and governments to the role that global governing bodies play in the legitimization of rulers.

However, Blatter did call on Uefa to play a bigger part in governing the sport, playing a familiar game by blaming the European confederation for the slow pace of reform.

Games depend on their players having some minimum degree of self-awareness about their character and the rules governing the play world.

The more artificial an object is, the more arbitrary the restrictions are on its movements, the simpler the rules governing the play, the more powerful a game seems to become.

The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) are rules governing the play of the game of chess.

The emergence of the Open era in 1968 united amateurs and pros and brought fresh money, lively personalities, cultural diversity and a lawlessness that left the governing bodies playing catch-up to rein in under-the-table payments, drugs, gambling and outrageous court conduct.