through the agency of
Example Sentences
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That the home of humanity could be saved through the agency of an artificial intelligence might seem a currently unfashionable theme, but I was hoping to suggest that the technology itself is morally neutral.
From Nature • Nov. 5, 2019
He said that American greatness could only be achieved by Americans acting together - helping each other through the agency of government.
From BBC • Jan. 21, 2013
Libraries began with the highest purpose in mind – to educate through the agency of a book.
From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2012
One way genes affect behaviour is through the agency of neurotransmitters, the chemicals that carry messages between nerve cells.
From Economist • Sep. 23, 2010
With infinite art, and, if the term is not debased by its application, with no little ability, she accomplished her wishes, principally through the agency of the ambitious and the self-interested, among Mary’s ministers.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford
