Sentence examples for principal agent of from inspiring English sources

Or, rather, that such a spectacle would not serve the candidate deemed to be the principal agent of it.

The director has his doubts, pointing out that Goldman Sachs – depicted here as the principal agent of wickedness – was the largest private contributor to the Obama campaign.

Among the lower vascular plants (club mosses, horsetails, and ferns), the principal agent of dispersal is the haploid spore and not, as in gymnosperms and angiosperms, the seed, the ripened ovule containing a dormant embryo.

Despite their bravado, the rebels have indicated their readiness to engage in political talks in Qatar, not least with Moussa Koussa, the colonel's former intelligence chief and foreign minister accused by rebels of being a principal agent of repression.

What is "collateral damage?" "The United States is the principal agent of the war on terrorism, but it's using proxies on the ground, and with very imperfect control of its proxies," said Michael Ignatieff, a professor of human rights practices at Harvard.

This form of depowerment has become more intense in an age of globalisation, centralisation of power, inaccessible bureaucracies, the separations of citizen and state; the distance between consumer and producer, the culture of clientism, and above all, of market-dependency: the principal agent of our apparent enfranchisement turns out to be yet another instrument for disabling human potential.

Bacteria, fungi, and algae are the principal agents of decay, reducing plant and animal residues to their component materials.

The show includes scores of vintage postcard photographs of rulers, which initiated the change; cameras replaced carvings as the principal agents of collective memory.

Critics argue the film's focus on the Jews as the principal agents of Christ's death is both racist and historically inaccurate.

The officials of the county court, who were the principal agents of local government, were appointed by the governor in most of the royal colonies.

Megafauna are the principal agents of soil turnover and distribution; this movement loosens soil structure, improves aeration and drainage, and distributes soil microorganisms.