Sentence examples for were agency from inspiring English sources
noun
The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power; action or activity; operation.
- The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. --Woodward.
The bulk of the Teixeiras's expenses were agency fees and air fare.
More than half of those were agency workers not entitled to redundancy pay.
In most "good" authorities social workers had between 10 and 14 cases, 7% were agency staff and the authority had 11% vacancies.
In the "adequate" services, caseloads were as high as 35, 22% were agency staff and vacancies were also at 22%. "Nationally the quality of help and protection for children is unsatisfactory and inconsistent, suggesting systemic rather than local failings," the NAO concluded.
Among the winners were: Agency of the Year, BETC Euro RCSG, Paris, part of the Euro RSCG Worldwide division of Havas; Network of the Year, BBDO Worldwide, part of the Omnicom Group Design Teamm of the Year, The New York Times Magazine, published by The New York Times Company; and School of the Year, the School of Visual Arts, New York.
Items to encourage use of EBDM that were most often ranked in the top three by the 2013 state level staff were agency leaders prioritizing EBDM (67.9%), easy access to EBDM data resources (63.0%), and direct supervisors prioritizing EBDM (46.8%).
"They're agency," he says.
But what is behind 'women's agency'?
Part of the reason is agency politics.
