Sentence examples for Direct agency from inspiring English sources
Quinn's view would imply that typical cases of self-defense and self-sacrifice would count as cases of direct agency.
Suppose that an elderly uncle dies in suspicious circumstances, and a number of the relatives believe that the correct explanation is the direct agency of a niece who is primary heir, via deliberately and directly administering poison.
Quinn explains that "direct agency requires neither that harm itself be useful nor that what is useful be causally connected in some especially close way with the harm it helps bring about" (1989, p. 344).
By contrast, Warren Quinn's proposal to substitute the concept of direct agency for the concept of intending to cause harm to someone as a means (see Section 1) would effectively broaden the category of results that count as intended.
"Presidential memoranda," once called presidential letters, are less formal but still direct agency action just as forcefully as executive orders.
It will also give specific requirements for contracts, grants and loans and will direct agencies to track stimulus spending separately.
"Clearly, it will require a Presidential mandate to energise and direct agencies to work together to reform the classification system".
Some scientists attributed Fermilab's woes to Congress's reviving its practice of earmarks that direct agencies to finance projects that would probably not receive money otherwise.
Ryan Alexander, the president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan group, said lawmakers placed unwarranted political pressure on agency officials when they sidestepped the legislative process and tried to direct agencies' spending.
The three executive orders Trump issued would reduce the timeframe for firing poor performers, curtail the amount of paid time federal employees can receive for union work and direct agencies to negotiate more restrictive union contracts in a timely fashion.
In his prepared testimony, Mr. Sullivan says he directed agency inspectors to investigate accusations of similar misconduct in San Salvador.
