Sentence examples for functioning agencies from inspiring English sources

About 20 African countries have dedicated road safety authorities, says Tawia Addo-Ashong, programme manager of the World Bank's Global Road Safety Facility, but fewer than five of those nations have fully functioning agencies.

A government cobbled together with the help of the United States remains nearly bankrupt, without many functioning agencies.

We are not arguing that the State Department is a perfectly functioning agency that requires no improvements.

"Donaldson seems to have done a good job of restoring the S.E.C. as a functioning agency," she said.

Once the department is approved, it could take up to a year to coalesce into a functioning agency, as the administration begins the task of combining 22 agencies with independent histories into a single entity designed to prevent terrorist attacks.

To meet the booming demand, a functioning agency needs internet designers, technologists, data analysts and mobile specialists of all kinds to staff the work.

The DEA, whatever the value of its ultimate mission, is widely credited as a highly functioning agency, with an impressive array of confidential informants, the ability to trace complex financial transactions and a history of successfully placing undercover operatives deep inside closed groups of militants.

Even more important, the downsizing of our government has put the USA on the road to being Pakistan, where the only functioning agency is the military.

The central idea is to use the government's regional employment offices as employers, functioning as agencies for temporary workers.

Add $75 billion (nearly 2.5 times France's total defense budget) for 16 poorly functioning intelligence agencies with 200,000 employees.

Lack of connectedness (or lack of financial resources) can be translated into a barrier to agency, following Sen's [12] concepts of functioning and agency deprivation.