instrumentality

Example Sentences

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This issue is more complicated than most, in large measure because the industry directly affected is already accustomed to being an instrumentality of the federal government.

From Washington Times • May 14, 2023

“They are a sovereign instrumentality of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” the filing said, adding the discovery order was “an extraordinary infringement on the sovereignty of a foreign state.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2023

“It doesn’t stand to reason that the legislature would have crafted a record-retention policy and exempted the one instrumentality of the state that the public has the most interest in knowing about.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2022

"Whatever NSO's government customers do with its technology and services does not render NSO an 'agency or instrumentality of a foreign state,'" Forrest wrote.

From Reuters • Nov. 8, 2021

It is a curious fact that both these conditions were realised through the instrumentality of the Crusades.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur