instrumentality

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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

This can be done by showing that a part of the company created to avoid taxes is “nothing more than instrumentality of its parent company, a sham.”

From New York Times • May 21, 2013

What advance has been made in what you are pleased to call the doctrine of the brotherhood of man, through the instrumentality of the church?

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green