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

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

It now, by means of a protective tariff, establishes home manufactures, through the instrumentality of which a coal bed or water fall is turned to account.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm