Sentence examples for mere agents from inspiring English sources
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).
The commissarial dictators of the absolutist sovereign were mere agents of the sovereign and did not themselves possess the power to decide on the exception.
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.
But why stop at being a mere agent when you could get a piece of the action?
Nor are they mere moistening agents for the inside of glassware.
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).
In the preceding two paragraphs, it has been proposed that the neural activity, the muscle contractions, and the overt hand movements may all be actions, while the switch's flipping on, the light's coming on, and the burglar's becoming alert are simply happenings outside the agent, the mere effects of the agent's overt action.
