instrumentality

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Diplomatic representation in the US: none; unofficial commercial and cultural relations with the people of the US are maintained through an unofficial instrumentality, the

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  1. noun The state or quality of being instrumental.
  2. noun A means; an agency.
  3. noun A subsidiary branch, as of a government, by means of which functions or policies are carried out.

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  • To him more than to any other human instrumentality is the brotherhood of Christ's disciples indebted for the early introduction of Christianity in the now grand State of Kansas; and his name will be honorably and lovingly remembered by all the good and the true, who shall learn of his unselfish life and his untiring devotion to the cause of the Master. —  Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler
  • Two young men were converted through their instrumentality, and were exerting a powerful influence over the white people. —  A Woman's Life-Work
  • All Livingstone's journals were saved through other instrumentality, as I have shown CHAPTER I Arrival at Zanzibar. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I
  • (A) to enjoin any person, including the United States and any other governmental instrumentality or agency (to the extent permitted by the eleventh amendment to the Constitution), who is alleged to be in violation of any provision of this Act or regulation issued under the authority thereof; or —  All Today's News - Sightline Daily
  • But those who participated in that first big protest march in Calcutta after the Nandigram massacre took the risk of identifying themselves outside of the organized Left-affect getting better of instrumentality, leading to fresh strategisation within the city. —  Kafila
 

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