Governing
Governing adjective - Responsible for making and enforcing rules and laws.
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Name and governing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Name" instead an adjective "Governing".
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Uncle Time from Sluggy Freelance is in charge of governing the timestream in Timeless Space, which, as its name suggests, doesn't have a timestream.
Source: Odd Job Gods -
There are hundreds of moves, some with very complex rules governing exactly how they work in certain situations (Substitute and Baton Pass, to name a few), ditto for Abilities.
Source: Loads and Loads of Rules - In this sense, it may have gotten its name from the so-called "National Crime Syndicate" of ethnic gangs and the similarly-vague "Commission," the Real Life governing body of the American Mafia.
Source: The Syndicate
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