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

“Factually, there is no instrumentality here other than Mr. Chauvin’s knee, which is not inherently dangerous.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2021

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

This is a dollar—a unit of money—part of the great instrumentality created by society to effect the multitudinous exchanges of property and services among men.

From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by Jones, John P. (John Percival)