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instrumentality

[in-struh-men-tal-i-tee] / ˌɪn strə mɛnˈtæl ɪ ti /


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Its name was changed to Government Accountability Office by a 2004 statute that described the GAO as “an instrumentality of the United States Government independent of the executive departments.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

A listener neither strains to understand what’s being conveyed, nor feels defeated by overamplified instrumentality or inadequately interpreted lyrics.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022

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 Robert Green Ingersoll

In his ruling, Stein wrote that affidavits supporting requests for search warrants only needed to establish probable cause that searches would turn up “evidence, fruits, or instrumentalities of a crime.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

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 ● Jan. 24, 2022

Cars are instrumentalities of death and injury, not because producers and purchasers intend this, but because cars are involved in crashes and crashes cause death and injury.

From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2018

Valid, time-tested methods exist to allow law enforcement to seize contraband, profits and instrumentalities via legitimate criminal prosecution.

From Washington Post

To use the best instrumentalities to attain the highest ends is our highest conception of the moral.

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


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