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

Rodriguez works with a dazzling palette of intense colors to convey a mood symphony of the Seattle guitarist’s evolving experimentations with instrumentality, music genres and sounds.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2021

And yet art is not, finally, a teaching tool, and may even need to be protected from this kind of instrumentality — from being co-opted by religious dogma, political imperatives or the academy.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2019

Now, if some one should claim that a certain painter was simply the instrumentality of God, certainly the pictures produced by that painter should be superior to all others.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green