quasi-governmental

"Agencies" like S&P trade on the quasi-governmental ring that the word "agency" provides, but executives at S&P and the other raters are charged with increasing revenues and profits to boost profits.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Why Are Discredited "Agencies" Like S&P Dictating Our Economic Future? RJ 2011

NERC has been doing this work since 1967, and since 2005 it has operated under the FERC umbrella as an "electric reliability organization" similar to Finra, the securities regulator with quasi-governmental duties.

If the Lights Go Out 2011

This is how it has worked for a variety of non-profit private and quasi-governmental entities (credit unions, mutual insurance companies, health care organizations).

Discourse.net: ICANN Reverts to Its Roots 2009

"Agencies" like S&P trade on the quasi-governmental ring that the word "agency" provides, but executives at S&P and the other raters are charged with increasing revenues and profits to boost profits.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Why Are Discredited "Agencies" Like S&P Dictating Our Economic Future? RJ 2011

And the Department of Education's quasi-governmental accrediting oversight body comprises many university presidents, including the provost of the University of Phoenix and the board chairman of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, a chief lobbying group for the for-profit college industry.

Buying Legitimacy: How A Group Of California Executives Built An Online College Empire 2011

And the partisan system allows the parties to function as quasi-governmental institutions.

Jacqueline Salit: An Independent View of the Midterm Elections Jacqueline Salit 2010

(I realize they do at the National Governors Association, so does that group now become quasi-governmental as some kind of deliberative body?)

The Volokh Conspiracy » Federalism Restoration Amendment: Take 2 2010

This sounds like a phrase they lifted from Amnesty International and not like any right that should be enforced by an American quasi-governmental organization.

The Volokh Conspiracy » A Religious, Cultural, and Personal Right To Eat Bacon — Even When Your Foster Parents Don’t Allow It in Their Home 2010

Use for soccer does not transform a private for-profit organization and enterprise into a non-profit one, nor into a quasi-governmental entity so as to escape property taxes.

Blazer fans will pay for soccer stadium (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

"Agencies" like S&P trade on the quasi-governmental ring that the word "agency" provides, but executives at S&P and the other raters are charged with increasing revenues and profits to boost profits.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Why Are Discredited "Agencies" Like S&P Dictating Our Economic Future? RJ 2011