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
  • Luzzatto is seeking millions of dollars from the quasi-governmental agency to make his project work.
    — Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025
  • His organization, a quasi-governmental arm of the state, helped secure funding for the shelter.
    — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Now that's not the private sector; that's a quasi-governmental organization.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The quasi-governmental agency plans to persuade developers to preserve wetlands on their properties.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 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
  • During the housing bubble the top executives of these quasi-governmental agencies benefited from compensation packages in the tens of millions.
    — Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This makes county fairs almost like quasi-governmental organizations, said Ahlers of the Anoka County Fair, even though some of the privileges aren’t exactly practicable.
    — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 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
  • The bill outlines the powers and limitations of the quasi-governmental entity that will own, manage — and oversee construction of — a $3 billion Chiefs stadium in Wyandotte County.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 13 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • It’s been about a year since Republicans rushed to praise the Department of Government Efficiency, the quasi-governmental cost-cutting initiative led by Elon Musk.
    — Adam Beam, AJC.com, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The Improvement District is a quasi-governmental organization run by a board comprised of residents and business owners focused on things like home repair grants, community events and infrastructure investment.
    — Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • That ending is generally reserved for institutions approved by an accreditor – quasi-governmental bodies certified by the federal government to ensure colleges meet a minimum academic threshold.
    — Chris Quintana, The Courier-Journal, 9 May 2024
  • Established in 1977, Port KC’s ability to issue bonds and other tools has allowed the quasi-governmental agency to expand into one of the city’s most influential redevelopment groups.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Improvement District is a quasi-governmental agency created in 2016 that provides grants to homeowners for repairs and helps connect residents to the City of Milwaukee for resources related to housing.
    — Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Beyond the land, Boise also applied for financial aid from the Idaho Housing and Finance Association, a quasi-governmental agency that administers several federal affordable-housing programs in the state.
    — Darin Oswald, Idaho Statesman, 13 Mar. 2026

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