Sentence examples for devoid of agency from inspiring English sources

This schema imagines smoking persons as devoid of agency.

The social science component is, however, still relatively weakly developed and society is often portrayed as a closed system devoid of human agency.

The images of starvation beamed around the world by organisations including Live Aid and World Vision to raise funds, portrayed Ethiopia – and by extension the entire region – as a hopeless, devastated place whose people were devoid of their own agency.

Officials acknowledge that it was cobbled together under enormous pressure in 2002 by an agency nearly devoid of expertise in detention and interrogation.

Although the center remained partially devoid of convective activity, the system was declared Tropical Depression 06P by the agency within hours of the alert.

This is not to say that young people who did not experience abduction are devoid of any assistance with re-establishing livelihoods, but rather, that aid agencies as well as government and NGO programmes may target formerly abducted persons disproportionately.

The agencies are, says Mr Reynolds, "the most powerful force in the capital markets that is devoid of any meaningful regulation".

Devoid of social value.

Devoid of all dismay.

Devoid of any empathy.

Oddly devoid of people.