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A governing body is a group of people that has the authority to exercise governance over an organization or political entity. The most formal is a government , a body whose sole responsibility and authority is to make binding decisions in a taken geopolitical system (such as a state ) by establishing laws .
Pages in category "Sports governing bodies in the United States" The following 135 pages are in this category, out of 135 total.
However, a national governing body (NGB) can be different from a national federation due to government recognition requirements. [2] Also, national governing bodies can be a supraorganization representing a range of unrelated organizations operating in a particular sport, as evident in the example of the Northern Ireland Federation of Sub-Aqua ...
A traditional and historical system where the monarch exercises ultimate governing authority as head of state and head of government. Many nations of Europe during the Middle Ages were absolute monarchies. Modern examples include mainly Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Brunei and one African country, Eswatini. Constitutional ...
The governing body at Duke University is known as the board of trustees, while each college and the graduate school maintains its own board of visitors. [4] The University of South Carolina [5] Michigan State University, [6] Indiana University, [7] University of Notre Dame, [8] and the University of Connecticut [9] are also governed by boards ...
Six more national boxing federations have joined a new organization seeking to replace the embattled International Boxing Association as the sport's governing body at the Olympic level. The ...
At those Olympics, the president of boxing’s governing body, then known by its French acronym AIBA, was a long-time IOC member C.K. Wu of Taiwan.
The International Criminal Court's governing body said on Thursday it regretted any attempts to undermine the ICC's independence following U.S. moves to sanction it in protest at its arrest ...