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

“There just never has been a criminal prosecution of a sovereign or its instrumentality anywhere,” she said, adding, “The world has been around for, like, 7,000 years, and no country has ever tried another country.”

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2023

"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 only the freeholders who are tenants in ancient demesne, and their land passes by common law conveyances without the instrumentality of the lord.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul