Sentence examples for mere agent from inspiring English sources

He was the mere agent of the lawmaking department to ascertain and declare the event upon which its expressed will was to take effect.

In similar fashion, the act demanded of Braswell requires a personal disclosure of individual knowledge, a fact which cannot be dismissed by labeling him a mere agent.

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.

I asked you what you answered him when he made that statement to you, when he said to you, for instance, that it was not possible for him to be a mere agent for German measures of coercion.

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.

Rather than being contrary to Delaware law and tradition, a practical interpretation of § 271 that ignores the separate existence of a subsidiary when it is the mere agent or instrumentality of a parent in an asset sale is consistent with the expectation that our courts will give a sensible interpretation to statutes and not empty them of their utility as important protectors of stockholders.

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

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.

I can't have been older than 10 when I realised child beggars were mere agents of larger shadows up the street, and would end up with nothing I gave them.

Since then there have been many attempts to deal with the "agency problem" (ie, the difficulty of ensuring that company managers will act in the interests of the shareholder owners for whom they are, in theory, supposed to be mere agents).