The phrase "agent of state" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to law, governance, or discussions about individuals or entities acting on behalf of a government or state.
Example: "The agent of state was responsible for enforcing the new regulations put forth by the government."
Alternatives: "state representative" or "government agent".
And in 1984 he created the role of Nicolas, the agent of state brutality, in Pinter's One For The Road.
Directed for thirty years by the charismatic and well-known chief judge Camille Kelley, the court was at once a traditional house of justice, a social services provider, an agent of state control, and a community-based mediator.
This article explores international educational exchange as a critical element of American universities' evolving public identity during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods and as an example of the governmental use of the university as an agent of state power and as a tool of political ideology.
Under apartheid, the police were agents of state repression.
Now anonymous teenagers can harass on Twitter and so can agents of state.
In the days of a centralised economy, these institutions were key agents of state control and capital allocation.
Throughout the country's postwar history the broadcast media and press have periodically become agents of state propaganda, only to be returned to some independence by succeeding administrations.
The vital trust that exists between the patient and the health professional will surely diminish if the public starts to perceive the latter as the agents of state employment/welfare policy.
Now scientists on both sides were acting not as agents of states, but as individuals — writing letters, raising funds, boycotting, signing petitions, lobbying, protesting.
Acting as an agent of the state with regard to marriage is a clear violation of the separation of church and state.
For the Committee, this is a warning sign: "An agent of the state who has the same subcultural interests as you is still an agent of the state".
