We've all learned that quasi-governmental is only quasi-safe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shareholders Get Left Behind] Reference

· Governmental port authority, quasi-governmental, or private.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Roads] Reference

ECE is a quasi-governmental mining agency backed by Jiangsu province.    From Wordnik.com.  [China to Buy Brazilian Miner] Reference

Clive ran a quasi-governmental environmental hydrology institute in Christchurch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terra Incognita]

You are right that change. gov is quasi-governmental site and may be a special case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Change.gov Really Changing Our .gov?] Reference

The Bad Faith Peer Review is protected by its quasi-governmental or actual governmental immunity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Money Laundering, Mortgage Fraud and the Medical Whistleblower] Reference

Many people, Mr. McDonald says, believed that the agencies were "quasi-governmental organizations.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Banking On a Rescue] Reference

It's one thing for Change. gov (a quasi-governmental website run by the transition team) to be innovative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Change.gov Really Changing Our .gov?] Reference

Given the capital deficiencies of these quasi-governmental housing financiers, this looks like a risky bet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Survival Bets on Blue Chips] Reference

International Monetary Fund, and other international quasi-governmental structures as free trade organizations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Badnarik; The Libertarian Candidate for President] Reference

Airports used to be sleepy, stable businesses, a quasi-governmental function with little competition or turmoil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Airports Suffer Terminal Illness] Reference

This is supposed to guarantee that the Red Cross is in effect a quasi-governmental institution rather than a philanthropy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Walden: On Gustav: Obama, McCain and Bush Hit One Note] Reference

It's sometimes mistakenly called a quasi-governmental decentralized central bank to disguise its real identity and purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grand Theft America] Reference

The issue here is that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which are quasi-governmental agencies continued to be in financial trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 11, 2008] Reference

Congregation had evolved, as the population grew, to be a community meeting complete with almost a quasi-governmental function.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eve's Rib]

Perhaps a more appropriate title would be “how the ideology of large quasi-governmental agencies will keep a country hungry”.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Capitalism Will Keep a Nation Hungry « Lean Left] Reference

Government allows electric companies quasi-governmental status because it deems their interests as superior to those of the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cost of Energy is Killing Our Elderly] Reference

I think that the ways of government, at all levels, including even the so-called quasi-governmental SROs, need far more accountability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Singer: The Supreme Court's PCAOB Ruling and Wall Street's Self-Regulation] Reference

Such districts assemble the affected landowners into a quasi-governmental organization that votes to accept or decline the developer's offer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Power to Say No] Reference

In 2001, Carlyle recruited Masato Marumo, who had helped start a private-equity department at the quasi-governmental Industrial Bank of Japan.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Private-Equity Kings] Reference

"Almost every single hostage was still alive when we came into the theater," says Shabalov, head of Moscow's quasi-governmental Rescue Services.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Questions Than Answers] Reference

As other sources of credit have vanished, these quasi-governmental institutions have evolved into the keystones of apartment mortgage financing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whither Fannie Mae?] Reference

In effect, Goldman Sachs alone is a quasi-governmental agency – i.e., a private preserve of public power and government bond-dealer influence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Goldman Sachs President?] Reference

To help pay for it, they formed the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (NJSEA), a quasi-governmental agency with the power to issue debt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Muni-Bond Debt Bomb] Reference

Foreign investors and governments have been strong buyers of their debt, known as agency bonds, a term that denotes their quasi-governmental status.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dollar's Dip Signals Deep Concern] Reference

The following week, mortgage rates slid dramatically after the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the quasi-governmental agencies that package mortgages.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm No Ben Bernanke, but I Can Still Play the Rate Game] Reference

But the requirement has led to a rise in maneuvering by officials, who have created quasi-governmental authorities that can issue debt without voter approval.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Muni-Bond Debt Bomb] Reference

From September 1999 until January 2005, Salvatore F. Sodano (Sodano) was the Chairman and CEO of the American Stock Exchange ( "AMEX"), a quasi-governmental SRO.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Singer: The Supreme Court's PCAOB Ruling and Wall Street's Self-Regulation] Reference

Municipal bonds have bigger tax breaks, and bonds issued by quasi-governmental agencies like Fannie Mae have higher yields, says New York money manager Gary Schatsky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Money Notes] Reference

Those are what I believe are the let's call them quasi-governmental services that will come under pressure in the decades ahead, and that won't be good for the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [On A Budget, U.S. Faces World As 'Frugal Superpower'] Reference

The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), a quasi-governmental group affiliated with METI, is the main implementing organization for the GAP.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cooperative Climate~ Chapter 3] Reference

Increasingly large investments by quasi-governmental investors from the Middle East and Asia are stirring nervousness about "national security" in the United States and Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Power Brokers] Reference

Another example of the media dutifully acting as a quasi-governmental arm can be seen by examining how the media en masse reacted to the September air strike on a Syrian facility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Media Privatization The New Trend? - Jaffer Ali - MediaBizBlogger] Reference

JAL, which filed for bankruptcy protection in January, is attempting to turn itself around with the help of the quasi-governmental Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corp. of Japan.    From Wordnik.com.  [JAL, Nippon Yusen Call Off Cargo Deal] Reference

HUNTER-GAULT: The head of the quasi-governmental agency running the parks admits he erred in not getting authorization from the proper authorities before announcing the statue was about to bite the dust.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2003] Reference

But some pesticides could pose a special threat to children, concluded a 1993 report by the quasi-governmental National Research Council, which warned that current pesticide laws do not adequately protect kids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pesticides And Kids' Risks] Reference