The ATF, meanwhile, is an agency in something of a perpetual crisis, largely created by America's powerful gun lobby and its allies in Congress, who together have spent decades trying to cripple the bureau charged with enforcing U.S. gun laws.
Similarly, he departed from the idea of agency as something just "contained" within the individual; agency refers to the flow or pattern of people's actions.
As the country has learned painfully, just because spy agencies are sure of something doesn't mean it's true.
Yesterday, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a major credit rating agency, gave something of vote of confidence to the plan.
Lump every imaginable failed or failing agency into something called a department of homeland security and – bringing airports to a grinding halt – deem the job done.
The fact that Enron was able to hide significant leverage and other obligations from the public puts rating agencies at something of a crossroads.
So long as this is the case, the deceptive subsystem, whether it constitutes a separate center of agency or something less robust, must be hidden from the conscious self being deceived if the self-deceptive intention is to succeed.
an effective agency of American foreign policy, something it has failed to be throughout this administration.
For a person radicalized in this manner, the fantasy of political violence is a chance to gain agency, make history, and be part of something larger.
So the packaging for Popchips, produced by Turner Duckworth, a brand identity and design agency in San Francisco and London, "has the feel of something you'd expect to taste good," says Mr. Belling, who is co-founder of Popchips Inc. along with Mr. Turpin, the president.
Another set of studies (Kuhlmeier et al. 2003; Hamlin et al. 2007) provide evidence that infants are not only sensitive to displays of agency, but also have a sense of (something like) cooperative behavior: they readily distinguish between helpers and hinderers.
