Sentence examples for powerful governing from inspiring English sources

With football officials at Fifa also facing criminal probes in the United States and Switzerland, two of the most powerful governing bodies, supposed guardians for two of the most popular sports, are now operating under dark clouds.

But he is short on charisma and even supporters suggest that he lacks the political skills needed to operate in the FIFA snake-pit.The other joint favourite with the bookies is Michel Platini, president of UEFA, the rich and powerful governing body of European football.

In 2009, when golf was accepted into the Olympics after an extensive campaign by the sport's most powerful governing bodies, the game looked too good to pass up for the International Olympic Committee, which saw huge dollar signs.

The new commission replaced the NDC as North Korea's most powerful governing agency.

In 2000, Mr. Freedman became Premier's lead director, its second most powerful governing official after the chairman.

As that last quote suggests, a part of the problem may be the lack of a powerful governing idea.

BEIJING — A senior military commander in China's restive far west has been stripped of his position on a powerful Communist Party governing body after an attack in the nation's capital last week that claimed five lives and deeply unnerved the Chinese leadership.

Provincial-level police chiefs, it appears, are being dissuaded from simultaneously serving on regional Political Legal Committees - powerful organisations governing the courts, the police and prosecutors.

To this end, she helps Lynx manipulate the Acacia Dragoons, the powerful militia governing the islands of El Nido.

Analysis reveals how 'thinking positive' is a powerful discourse, governing socially acceptable ways of thinking and talking about coping with cancer and placing a moral obligation on women with breast cancer to conduct themselves in particular ways.

This is his plan for a planetary alliance of economically powerful, democratically governed nations whose leaders would work together to protect human rights and combat terrorism.