What if the market was not an actor (as Sellers makes it) but a resource, an instrumentality, something created by human beings as a means to their ends?" Sellers summarized Howe's argument as "Market delivers eager self-improvers from stifling Jacksonian barbarism" as against his own "Go-getter minority compels everybody else to play its competitive game of speedup and stretch-out or be run over".
The statute applies to payments made to foreign government officials like bureaucrats in a ministry, but it also covers anyone who works for an "instrumentality" of a foreign government, like a state-owned utility looking to go private or a sovereign wealth fund seeking advice on new investments.
"This ignores what should be a blinding flash of the obvious: A 4,000-pound vehicle used as an instrumentality or weapon possesses many times more 'knockdown' power than any handgun or rifle," Bolgiano wrote with another attorney, Douglas R. Mitchell.
The Chamber of Commerce also complained about the lack of concrete guidance on who is a "foreign official" and what is an "instrumentality" of the government.
The excellent cast also includes the redoubtable soprano Gabriele Schnaut as a veritable personification of the mighty Euphrates, an instrumentality of untold misery when it engulfs the known world.
In practice, however, a lawyer's understanding of the law is an instrumentality that clients want to leverage to navigate the legal system in pursuit of their own objectives.
The statute requires that the recipient of the claim be an instrumentality of the federal government, which is very much an open question.
It has an instrumentality all its own, the power to subvert the work of artists and amateurs alike.
The French railroad's law firm in New York, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, has argued that the railroad is an "instrumentality" of France and so may not be sued in American courts under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976.
Roosevelt's New Deal sought to modernize and enlarge all of government, including the F.B.I., which he promised to make "as effective an instrumentality of crime detection and punishment as any of the similar agencies in the world".
The company is an instrumentality of the one-party state and it acts under the direction of the government's leaders.
