Sentence examples for instrumental agents from inspiring English sources
In effect, this makes corporations themselves instrumental agents in the fight against foreign bribery.
These data are especially relevant to the often repeated idea that parasitoids or predators may be instrumental agents for moving symbionts from one host lineage to the next.
And it is the children themselves, already knowledgeable about good practice, who are proving to be instrumental agents of change within their families and communities.
Desires produced or sustained by this process of practical reasoning are instrumental desires the agent has them because she thinks that satisfying them will lead to something else that she desires.
Such social movements can therefore be considered authentic urban agents, instrumental in shaping the city.
(Holden) 'Garbo the Spy' (No rating, 1 28, in English, Spanish, Catalan and German) Juan Pujol García was a World War II double agent instrumental in making the Normandy landings a success.
Unlike many SOV languages like Japanese and Korean, where only the patient argument can serve as the direct object of a verb, in Chinese, Vietnamese, Hmong, and many other mainland Southeast Asian SVO languages, in addition to patient objects, transitive verbs (and even some intransitive verbs) may take direct objects in the roles like agent, instrumental, manner, locative, and purpose.
Volatilization of Me2AsH and TMAs III) from contaminated soil is thus possible with this genetically engineered bacterium and could be instrumental as an agent for reducing the inorganic arsenic content of soil and agricultural products.
Given the dual role of ROS as mitogenic signaling molecules and potential genotoxic agents, the instrumental role of ROS in senescence establishment has remained elusive.
After all, agents can display instrumental incoherence in the pursuit of both moral and immoral ends.
Having a normative perspective involves a desire-like attitude towards what one believes to be required by certain standards, practically rational agents form an instrumental desire to perform such actions.
