governing

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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said this year that the NBA is working with FIBA, the world governing body for basketball, to begin a standalone league in Europe.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

The principle of his proposal is to refocus governing energy on boosting productivity.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Others are fairly typical: laws governing AI, competition, the economy, and talent acquisition and retention.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

There’s a “frequent imbalance between the speed of technological growth and the slower development of awareness, norms, safeguards and institutions capable of governing its effects,” the pope writes.

From Slate • May 28, 2026

Such bureaucracies were essential not only to governing large and populous domains but also to maintaining standing armies, sending out fleets of exploration, and organizing wars of conquest.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond