Mr. Morsi, the military and the demonstrators — and, for that matter, Mr. Mubarak himself — all claimed to be true agents and loyal servants of the popular will.
It was surely a compromise — in which this strong-willed, immensely capable woman had to give up the gratification of being true agent.
This might be true of anti-angiogenic agents and anti-vascular agents as well as other HIF-1-targeting therapeutics.
Why would not the same be true of a pair of similar coexistent omnipotent agents?
We believe that it is Designer rather than Tool who is the true agent of Tool's actions.
But now, with the decision by the Suffolk County executive, Steve Levy, to switch parties and seek the Republican nomination, Democrats find themselves facing an opponent with deep pockets who is making an aggressive appeal for independent voters by claiming he is the true agent of change.
Mr. Schirmer, the state director, shrugged off a question about how Ms. Palin had changed the political landscape, saying she had not and that Mr. Obama was the true agent of change.
Agents that charge reading fees are suspect; the same should be true of contests.
But if this is so, then, while it might be true that an agent herself provides a source of her action, that source, the one provided by her, itself has a further source that originates outside of her.
And in fact, he holds, it cannot be true that we really are agent-causes of what we do, and it need not be the case that any events involving us cause our actions.
