FIFA, the governing body for world football, does not meet that description.
The arrest of Mr. Meiyappan prompted immediate calls for Mr. Srinivasan to step down from the BCCI, the wealthiest and most influential national governing body in world cricket.
Of course the governing body of world football, Fifa, whose leader once told us that players should just shake hands and avoid name calling, pays the same lip service to the promised eradication of race-fuelled disagreements, but nothing changes.
Football's world governing body has awarded Africa the 2010 World Cup finals and will select the African host on 15 May 2004 in Zurich, the Swiss city where Fifa headquarters are based.
Rugby's world governing body, the IRB, has promised to end its World Cup Sevens event in order to allow 12 men's and women's teams to take part in the competition.
So the body adds up and the world reminds you of the body's limits, although it can be surprisingly kind.
But the old Wilsonian notion of a governing world body has been laid to rest.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan in calling for "far-reaching reform" of the world body to meet new threats.
When the world body named him a terrorist financier, the Swiss government froze his assets.
He will soon be ready to test his body against the world's finest once more.
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Hun Sen had asked the world body in 1997 to help find justice for the Khmer Rouge's atrocities.
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Security Council, including one for Japan, provided the world body meets certain criteria, a State Department official said Thursday.
It is time for the world body to rethink its plan for Afghanistan.
The New Zealand government has been pressing cricket's world body, the International Cricket Council (ICC) to cancel the tour.
Lawmakers, mostly Democrats, have questioned the temperament of Bush's embattled nominee, who has criticized the world body in the past.
He saw mountains casting shadows on the moon and realised this body was a world, like the Earth, endowed with complicated terrain.
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The world body withdrew its international staff from the country in the wake of a deadly bombing last summer at its Baghdad headquarters.
The DBCP was formed in 1985, as a joint body of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO.
To dismiss the world body out of hand, as some (read, American) critics do, is not just unfair, he argues, but also absurd.
Woodrow Wilson's idea was that peaceful nations would give up considerable warmaking sovereignty to a world body that would act to keep the peace.
The world body withdrew its staff from Iraq after an August bombing that killed Annan's special representative, Sergio Vieira de Mello, and 21 others.
The United States, along with the world body, are working to try to fortify, rebuild Haiti, and Haiti is right in the path of Isaac.
UN, in principle, retains the right to impose its will by force may have made it easier for the world body to broker a settlement.
The results meant the assembly has 30 out of 60 women members - the first nationally-elected body in the world with at least 50% female representation.
In fact, she said she believes it is her duty not simply to defend Israel to the world body, but to defend the UN to Israelis.
The organization's handling of her case also sparked widespread criticism over accusations that it was unclear what standards the world body was using to determine her gender.
The birth of the first child who began life as an embryo outside the human body made headlines world-wide and ultimately spawned hundreds of commercial IVF clinics.
"The FAZ executive committee led by Mr Kalusha Bwalya ... is the only one recognised by Fifa, " the world body said in a statement to the BBC.
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The world body should back his government decisively, supplying the political recognition that will earn it international credibility and -- by extension -- increased influence over the provinces.
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