Sentence examples for main world governing from inspiring English sources

Mayweather did more than upset three of the four main world governing bodies when he announced his intention to surrender their baubles and say goodbye to boxing unencumbered by their sanction fees.

However, football's world governing body Fifa announced on Tuesday that a pre-draw will take place before the main draw and one country will be moved into Pot 2. How does the draw happen?

There is a world governing body.

Executives from Fifa's ​main ​sponsors Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Visa and Anheuser-Busch Inbev were also questioned by the select committee about their relationship with the world governing body and the working conditions of migrants in Qatar.

FIFA, the world governing body, initially stayed silent.

The Fédération Internationale de Handball is the world governing body.

Track's world governing body relies on unstated, shifting standards.

Classification is governed by a code drawn up by the IPC, the world governing body for the sport.

Track and field's world governing body, the I.A.A.F., later expelled Makhloufi, 24, from the London Games.

It hardly mattered that FIFA, soccer's world governing body, gave pledges to the contrary.

Money, however, is not everything to soccer's world governing body.