instrumentality

Example Sentences

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“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

The court “must determine whether a bank robber can transform an unwilling bank into his agency or instrumentality,” she wrote.

From New York Times

“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

In an email sent by a spokeswoman on Monday, Kennedy described his statement as “a factual observation that technology has given an arsenal of frightening instrumentalities to totalitarian elements.”

From Seattle Times

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