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

The debts and liabilities backed by Purdue “constitute an instrumentality of the state of Indiana for the purpose of the department’s regulations,” he said.

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2017

Terror will always find a weapon because it is an idea and not an instrumentality.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2015

Your purveyor makes a Sybarite of you, through the inevitable instrumentality of breakfast and dinner.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward