instrumentality
IPA: ɪnstrʌmɛntˈæɫɪti
noun
- (uncountable) The quality or condition of being instrumental; serving a purpose, being useful.
- (countable, law) A governmental organ with a specific purpose.
- (countable) Something that is instrumental; an instrument.
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Examples of "instrumentality" in Sentences
- Yes, the notion of instrumentality is handled differently in Slavic languages.
- The word "instrumentality" does not appear in this context in the Belgian report.
- So in the quickening of the dead to spiritual life, human instrumentality is employed first to prepare the way, and then to turn it to account.
- He was able to communicate with Jehovah himself, and the simple instrument that he used was one that is always in vogue with the human race, that is, the instrumentality of prayer.
- That was the setting-in of a new current for his ambition, directing his prospects of "instrumentality" towards the uniting of distinguished religious gifts with successful business.
- The so-called norms of the market, such as instrumentality and fungibility, come in varying degrees and characterize not only market, but also nonmarket, relationships, including friendship.
- Mr. Samantar, who now lives in Fairfax, Va., contends that because he was prime minister or defense minister from 1980 until the Somali regime's 1991 collapse, he was an "instrumentality" of government and thus immune from liability.
- This meant a motor vehicle constituted an "instrumentality" of the offences of driving under the influence of liquor and could thus be forfeited to the state in terms of the Act. However, the Bloemfontein court also held a vehicle driven in these conditions was not liable to forfeiture in every case.
- Unconstrained by, indeed necessarily opposed to, any normative set of ends or social frameworks, classical liberalism's model of individual, competitive agency understands its flourishing to be premised on the absence of external constraints and obligations and on its positively merging utilitarianism's notions of "instrumentality" and "efficiency."
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