The Government's consistent policy has been to limit participation in the [Combined Federal Campaign] to 'appropriate' voluntary agencies and to require agencies seeking admission to obtain permission from federal and local Campaign officials.
This coalescence of two sensations is so far erroneous since it makes us overlook the existence of two distinct external agencies acting on different parts of the sensitive surface of the body.
Nevertheless, such a coalescence plainly answers to the fact that these external agencies usually arise in one and the same object, and this unity of the object is, of course, the all-important thing to be sure of.
And among the agencies by which such ungrounded imagination arises, the promptings of feeling play the most conspicuous part.
Thus, the sphere of external sensation and of physical agencies furnishes us with the one type of thinkable thing or object of thought, and we habitually view subjective mental states as analogues of these.
On the other hand, we have already, in discussing the Permian glaciation, discovered two agencies which are very effective in lowering the temperature of the earth.
The refrigerating agencies would proceed until an enormous burden of ice was laid on the land of the northern hemisphere.
These utilities, together with the various modifying agencies of different environments, are generally believed to have led to the bewildering variety and great beauty of our floral world.
It is generally thought that these wearing agencies were more violent in early times, but that is disputed, and we will not build on it.
It has no element of mysticism, and is merely an expression of the fact that the previous general agencies of development have created in man an intelligence of a higher grade than that of any other animal.
The FACT of the evolution of man and the apes from a common ancestor is, therefore, outside the range of controversy in science; we are concerned only to retrace the stages of that evolution, and the agencies which controlled it.
Electrical and other agencies may make gases luminous, and many astronomers think that the nebulae are intensely cold.
The basic cause is the upheaval of the land--a fact which is beyond controversy, the other agencies are very plain and recognisable consequences of the upheaval.
Only the finished products of such activities, not the activities themselves, can be presented to consciousness; and only by general reasoning, inferential of agencies that lie outside the conscious field, can we hope to determine them.
The latter is the product of noumenal agenciesacting upon "outer sense," i.
The bearer of appearance is not the individual subject, but those transcendental creative agencies upon which man and nature alike depend.
What it is that is thus present in space, or what the dynamic agencies may be to which the motion is due, is never revealed.
These are the records--this is the actual record that is kept by the probation department, and the only thing that is sent to the other agencies is just this initial report.
The spells and cantrips alleged to be cast by theseagencies were usually such as brought harmful effect upon human being or farm stock, such supposed incidence of supernatural interference being accepted without question.
Active interference in the routine of daily life on the part of the Prince of Darkness and his agencies was fully believed in.
In fact, the oratorical contests are something more than agencies for interesting undergraduates in the peace movement.
Among the numerous forces contributing to this evolution of international peace, the chief agencies have been, and still are, moral and industrial.
Chief among these agencies are the form and extent of the continents, their position relative to each other and the water areas, and the currents of the air and sea.
But so long as these agencies appear to be quite as frequently the modified as the modifier, no laws concerning them can be announced.
The Johnstown flood has no parallel in suddenness and destructiveness, save in the convulsions of the earthquake and volcano, agencies which will be noticed shortly, but which have never wrought such serious havoc in our own land as elsewhere.
We may contrast with metamorphism the action of external agencies in weathering, which render rocks less coherent by dissolving their soluble parts and breaking down their crystalline grains.
In early summer the neve tears itself free, dislodging and removing any loosened blocks, and the open fissure of the bergschrund allows frost and other agencies of weathering to attack the unprotected rock.
The agencies which spread the material of the continental delta grow more and more feeble as they pass into deeper and more quiet water away from shore.
At certain points these agencieshave been more effective than elsewhere.
Sir Humphry Davy's celebrated Bakerian Lecture on some chemical agencies of electricity was read in November 1806, and is almost entirely occupied in the consideration of electro-chemical decompositions.
That is, the reflex arc is built up by agencies that are quite independent of the subsequent act.
Efforts to heal the breach without a direct appeal to metaphysical agencies have been made by attempting a complete logicizing of all operations.
The sorcerer relied wholly upon supernatural, chiefly diabolic, agencies for his power, while the wizard of the modern laboratory applies his knowledge of molecules and gases to aid his supermortal forces.
In general, in the Gothic novel there is a decided and definite attempt to use the terrible forces of nature to reflect the dark passions of man, with added suggestiveness where supernatural agenciesare at work in the events.
Elements such as invisibility, for instance, and various occult agencies may be stressed and analyzed in fiction as would be impossible on the stage.
The close relation between insanity and the weird can be much more effectively shown in the novel or short story than in the drama, as the forces of mystery, the incalculable agencies can be thus better emphasized.
They are blown or carried by insects or other agencies to suitable situations for growth, they germinate and form new fungi.
The pollen grains are taken to the stigmas in many ways, but the most usual agencies are insects and wind.
And hence it may not be hazardous to conclude that very ordinary metamorphic agencies may convert these polar caps into a form of quartzite.
Their actions acquire a superiority over those of man not by supernatural agencies or extraordinary developments of physical power; their preëminence lies in the quiet assumption of power, in the immediate sequence of action on volition.
But as the agencies of nature have become known, and their laws and conditions of action discovered, the domination of superstition has given place to the triumph of reason and the reign of truth.
The various political agencies which have frightened away capital and entirely abolished enterprise will continue their work until some measure of Home Rule is given to the country, and then things will come to a head at once.
That one man in five years did more good to Ireland than all other agencies operating for the previous forty years.
With his removal from his office of Deputy Postmaster-General, all these agencies and the salaries attached to them came to an end.
Kinnersley himself employed skilled workmen to make the necessary electrical apparatus for him, modelled upon the rough agencies designed by Franklin for himself, and used in his own exhibitions.
While recalling these words, it is not amiss to recall, too, what Lord Brougham had to say about the agencies with which Franklin conducted his experiments.
Of all the new agencies that our day has seen, there is but one that tends steadily to assume a more and more commanding importance, and that is the agency of the patient's mind itself.
Religion means primarily a universe of spiritual relations surrounding the earthly practical ones, not merely relations of "value," but agencies and their activities.
They involve the reduction of the repellent forces in rural life and the increase of such forces and agencies as will be attractive, especially to the young.
In any account of the school as an ethical instrument this subtlest of its moral agencies deserves careful analysis.
The origin of a new species by other than ordinary agencies would be a vastly greater 'catastrophe' than any of those which Lyell successfully eliminated from sober geological speculation[79].
II The first question to consider is whether in England the existing theatrical agencies promote for the general good the genuine interests of dramatic art.
Theatrical agenciesof the existing type have never ignored the literary drama altogether.
Do existing theatrical agencies secure for the nation all the beneficial influence that is derivable from the truly competent form of drama?
All the potent individual agencies now affecting it are attached by self-interest to the wrong side.
Eugenics was founded ten years ago by Sir Francis Galton, who defined it thus: "The study of agencies under control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "agencies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
