Sentence examples for as mere agents from inspiring English sources

Our elected officials will soon fill a function much like the one the media fills now, as mere agents of a greater power.

And their inherent contempt for the Pakistani troops is only deepened by their view, which I heard voiced repeatedly in Waziristan, that the Pakistanis were acting as mere agents of the United States.

Santa, can you therefore help us get through to the politicians who look upon us as mere agents of political correctness and ungrounded, unrealistic thinking?

This made senators free agents, presumably acting on behalf of their state at large, rather than as mere agents of the state legislatures.

The heart of the matter, as everyone knows, is that the Government does not see Braswell as a mere agent at all; and the majority's theory is difficult to square with what will often be the Government's actual practice.

When Ms. Abul Naga, the minister of planning and international cooperation, requested the investigation into foreign financing of nonprofit groups here, she was widely perceived as a mere agent of the ruling generals.

Previously, pollination drops have been treated as mere receiving agents of pollen (Singh, 1978), but we now know, thanks to proteomics, that different species have unique pollination drop protein composition, which influences germination of conspecific vs. heterospecific pollen (von Aderkas et al., 2012).

Unfortunately, the encroachment of the federal government in Medicaid threatens to reduce states to mere agents.

Such talk is a perennial harbinger of spring as the annual national collegiate tournament get under way, and while much of the talk is generally dismissed as mere wishful musings by agents hoping to represent young prospects, some of it almost always proves to be true.

And that is the crux of this case, brought by a group of women who believe their innermost lives were regarded as so valueless they could be used by covert police as mere props, devices to shore up agents' cover stories and prove they were good-faith activists rather than frauds.

The act strikes me as mere vandalism.