Judicial, Quasi judicial, and Investigatory

They're called quasars. Quasars originally meant quasi stellar object.

I have called this presumption a quasi Marxist fallacy.

But can Bolivia move away from becoming a quasi failed state?

Peer review represents a very particular form of quasi judicial function.

More importantly, the lobbying of the quasi governmental mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would not have been so successful without the idea of the ownership society.

She said that the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues was the executive, the Special Rapporteur was a quasi judicial body and the Working Group on Indigenous Populations was a quasi judicial legislative body.

Good or bad, the quasi king can be booted out every four years.

Moreover, the quasi judicial control exercised by these bodies is even less comprehensive.

MAD simply won t work for a mad man who is guided by quasi messianic certitude.

The electricity grid is quasi absent except for a few solar panels and battery generators.

It is only in this last respect that a quasi judicial function may be involved.

After all, the US presidency is a quasi monarchical institution, as well as a political one.

(b) Collection of information from sources with first hand or quasi first hand knowledge of events

Argentina adopted the hardest peg, introducing a quasi currency board and fixing the exchange rate by law.

Suharto came to power in 1966, establishing a quasi military dictatorship and encouraging Indonesians to enrich themselves.

And the highly successful salmon industry is the creation of Fundación Chile, a quasi public venture fund.

In practice, however, the relationship between currency and finance is vague, with both assuming quasi fiscal functions.

A man named Remenabila has achieved a quasi mythical status through his ability to escape government authorities.

No steps have yet been noted aimed at recognizing the quasi judicial jurisdiction of the treaty bodies.

The result is what economists call Nash equilibria, or a series of suboptimal and only quasi cooperative outcomes.

Germans, understandably, have a problem with national symbolism, but I spotted a few fans in quasi Bavarian dress.

From 1798 to 1800, France and the United States engaged in the Quasi War, an undeclared naval war.

The quasi unison statements and the virtual convergence on the subject in the general debate speak for themselves.

Giving the ECB a quasi fiscal role, even if it is somewhat insulated from losses, risks undermining its credibility.

They prepared for inclusion of eight former Communist countries (as well Cyprus and Malta) with almost quasi religious fervor.

All these activities allowed Walid Harfouche to become a quasi known personality in the field of Media and politic.

Quasi judicial control by these treaty bodies is essentially random because it depends on the receipt of individual communications.

Both administrative control and quasi judicial review by these treaty bodies are thus by nature more reactive than preventive.

At the same time, it has left Japan s long sought transcendence of its war guilt and quasi pariah status incomplete.

Over the last few years, the central banks of the largest advanced economies have assumed a quasi dominant policymaking position.

In most of the rest of the world, a political career is regarded as a quasi legitimate road to wealth.

Some people now warn of a Lebanonization of Syria partition of the country into rival fiefdoms and quasi independent regions.

Some green lasers operate in pulse or quasi continuous wave (QCW) mode, to reduce cooling problems and prolong battery life.

The obligations of certain organizations, such as the World Bank, are defined as quasi sovereign by the credit ratings agencies.

And second, quasi judicial monitoring is limited to only those States parties that have also accepted the relevant complaint procedure.

Furthermore, control, whether administrative or quasi judicial, by the treaty bodies is limited to the rights contained in each treaty.

Those obstacles take the form of patents that grant quasi monopolistic powers to the pharmaceutical companies that produce those medicines.

The first institutional reform takes the form of a larger envelope of official resources, which would mean a quasi fiscal union.

Yet even he did not touch the economy s gargantuan quasi governmental sector the source of the most horrendous waste and misspending.

This independent body has been a resounding success, giving the world an effective quasi judicial system to resolve disputes between trading partners.

Its malaise has raised questions about whether its democratic capitalism will survive the economic challenge posed by authoritarian and quasi authoritarian regimes.

Although the population did not always make the connection between their social anxiety and their quasi colonial status, the two were inextricably linked.

Syria has already sought to assure regime continuity through quasi monarchic hereditary succession with the move from Hafez al Assad to his son Bashar.

China s rapid growth has rescued multitudes from abject poverty, and quasi Corporatist arrangements are clearly better than Mao s Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution.