Sentence examples for public authority system from inspiring English sources

"I'm sure Robert Moses was a nice man, but these are Frankenstein monsters," Mr. Brodsky added, referring to the official credited with developing New York's public authority system.

The most sweeping measure of the day was an overhaul of the state's sprawling public authority system — a maze of quasi-independent entities like the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Long Island Power Authority.

ALBANY — Lawmakers took baby steps toward bringing spending restraint and more-rigorous government oversight to the capital on Wednesday by closing most of a $3.2 billion state budget deficit, scaling back pension benefits for new government employees and overhauling the public authority system.

As an aide to Gov. George E. Pataki, she oversaw New York state's sprawling public authorities system, and in 2003 was named superintendent of banking, with authority over thousands of financial institutions.

Five Town Rural Transit is seeking support for the creation of a public authority to run the rail system, a step that would require approval from the state and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

He faces charges of (pdf) "complicity to execute a criminal agreement", "undermining the constitutional system" and "opposing public authority by violence or criminal force".

And in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker proposed on Tuesday to separate the main Madison campus from the rest of the state university system, and make it a public authority.

New York State is on the agenda because of the size and complexity of its system of public authorities, which operate enterprises like hospital systems and toll roads, and are not bound by the rules that limit the amount of debt the state itself can issue.

Various legal systems, such as the UK and the Netherlands, also consider private law bodies without statutory powers but with public function to have public authority - as functional public authorities.

First, public authorities should make payment system infrastructure more efficient so as to eliminate inefficiencies in the flow of funds, both internationally and domestically.

Much is not known about the sprawling system of public authorities, which number in the hundreds.