How to Use quasi-governmental in a Sentence

quasi-governmental

adjective
  • The office is a quasi-governmental entity that serves as the city’s arts council.
    Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The carve-out for the Fed suggests the central bank's leaders will enjoy stronger protections against Trump than other quasi-governmental entities.
    Davis Winkie, USA Today, 26 May 2025
  • Bree Jones, founder of Parity, believes there is a need for a land bank, a quasi-governmental organization that would acquire and sell vacant and abandoned homes and land to ease the vacant crisis.
    Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 27 Feb. 2023
  • That memo was sent to the council, a quasi-governmental body that makes recommendations for fixing the region’s air pollution problem, ahead of its Friday meeting.
    Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The new contract changes the way BOPA is administered to bring the once-independent, quasi-governmental agency partly under city control.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2024
  • In the year since Mayor Craig Greenberg took office, a number of directors and other top government or quasi-governmental leaders have arrived.
    Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 12 June 2024
  • But in 2021, McGrath was indicted on federal charges of wire fraud and embezzlement connected to his time at a quasi-governmental agency.
    Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
  • In fact, the mortgage pricing update — which apply to loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two quasi-governmental entities that guarantee or purchase the majority of mortgages across the country — is old news.
    Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 8 May 2023
  • The quasi-governmental agency plans to persuade developers to preserve wetlands on their properties.
    Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Privatizing the quasi-governmental insurance company would mean pulling the state out of the workers’ compensation game, while raising serious one-time money to help plug the budget — an idea that Polis hasn’t yet sold lawmakers on.
    Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Even after planning began for this year’s festival, public confidence was eroded by a series of missteps by BOPA, the quasi-governmental agency that mounts city celebrations.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Expansion into the Middle East should help Fanatics establish deeper ties with sovereign wealth funds and quasi-governmental agencies that have made sports investment one of the pillars of their strategy.
    Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 19 June 2025
  • Dixon, however, has proposed creating a land bank, a quasi-governmental agency that would acquire property, clear title issues, consolidate parcels and then get them into the hands of developers.
    Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2024
  • The indictments also charged McGrath, long loyal to Hogan, with using money from the quasi-governmental environmental service to pay for personal expenses.
    Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2023
  • Toles’ resignation leaves the quasi-governmental anti-poverty organization with 11 vacancies on its 18-seat board.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2024
  • An influential coalition of Baltimore’s religious leaders has an idea for a new, quasi-governmental agency that would focus solely on vacant housing and oversee billions of dollars in public money — and Mayor Brandon Scott supports the concept.
    Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 16 Feb. 2023
  • McGrath was set to be tried on federal charges stemming from his time running the Maryland Environmental Service, a quasi-governmental state agency that provides services like wastewater management, composting and recycling.
    Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • McGrath was set to go on trial on federal charges stemming from his time running the Maryland Environmental Service, a quasi-governmental state agency that provides services like wastewater management, composting and recycling.
    Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Officials at the Maricopa Association of Governments, a quasi-governmental agency that creates the regional transportation spending plan, could not immediately be reached for comment.
    Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 4 Dec. 2024
  • But cuts ordered by the Trump administration's quasi-governmental Department of Government Efficiency eliminated about 800 staff positions and the administration is preparing an even deeper round of layoffs.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Luzzatto is seeking millions of dollars from the quasi-governmental agency to make his project work.
    Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025

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