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Example sentences for "agents"

Lexicographically close words:
agendum; agens; agenst; agent; agentes; ager; ageratum; agere; agers; ages
  1. Paste pencils are for the direct application of medicinal agents to the skin in dermatologic practice.

  2. Incompatible with mineral acids and oxidizing agents and should not be prescribed in solution with alkaloids or alkaloid-containing drugs.

  3. These enzymes are at once the products and the agents of life.

  4. These agents liberate a force in the germ that is not in the grain of sand.

  5. August 1841 led to his being appointed one of the agents of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, and in this capacity he delivered during the next four years numerous addresses against slavery, chiefly in the New England and middle states.

  6. In 1737 he was one of the agents in the settlement of the boundary line between New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

  7. At the head of the group of Loyalists are likenesses of Sir William Pepperell, Baronet, one of the Chairmen of their Agents to the Crown and Parliament of Great Britain; and William Franklin, Esq.

  8. After the peace, over five thousand Loyalists submitted claims for losses, usually through agents appointed by the refugees from each American colony.

  9. The return of the agents to New England, bearing such mandates from the king, was the cause of confusion and dismay to the whole country.

  10. The agents of the several colonies had an interview with him and tried to dissuade him from it.

  11. Another body, of which the Baronet was President, was the Board of Agents constituted after the peace, to prosecute the claims of Loyalists to compensation for their losses by the war, and under the Confiscation Acts of the several States.

  12. Instead of being thankful for such lenity, many were full of resentment and indignation, and most unjustly assailed the agents for failing to accomplish an impossibility.

  13. In order to soften the opposition, and to consult to the utmost of his power the wishes of the colonists, Grenville informed the colonial agents that the distribution of the stamps should be confided not to Englishmen but to Americans.

  14. They, however, neither acknowledged the agents nor directed them to leave the kingdom.

  15. He was not any worse than hundreds of secret service agents employed at the present time by the United States Government, to detect law-breakers.

  16. On this occasion, he and the other Agents were admitted to the presence, and "all had the honor to kiss his Majesty's hand.

  17. The year after his arrival, he was appointed one of the agents of government to locate lands granted to Loyalists, and was soon after made a member of the Council, and commissioned as a Colonel in the militia.

  18. On August 4th, the day before the declaration of war, the twenty leading spies were formally arrested and over 200 of their minor agents were also taken in hand, and thus their organisation failed them at the moment when it was wanted most.

  19. Their duty is to act as agents to receive and distribute instructions secretly to other itinerant spies, and to return their reports to headquarters.

  20. All these duties are again subdivided among agents of every grade, from ambassadors and their attachés downwards.

  21. For war purposes these agents may be divided into: 1.

  22. A case of espionage which was tried in London revealed his methods, one of his agents being arrested after having been watched for three years.

  23. He felt grateful to Jemima and to Riccabocca as the special agents of Providence in this general integratio amoris.

  24. All of whom, as members of the provisional government, or agents of the royal party, had concurred in the subversion of the imperial government, previous to the abdication of Napoleon.

  25. Plehve fell the victim of a plot of Russian revolutionaries, aided and abetted, it appears, by agents of the Russian secret police.

  26. In fact, it is not merely strange but sad to reflect that a hundred folk a week leave their native country every summer, tempted by wild tales of certain fortune which the steamship agents do not scruple to tell.

  27. The name coulissier was thus given to unauthorized agents de change, or "outside brokers" who, after many attempts at suppression, were finally given a recognized status in 1901.

  28. They bring business to the agents de change, and act as intermediaries between them and other parties.

  29. It is also a term of the Paris Bourse, derived from a coulisse, or passage in which transactions were carried on without the authorized agents de change.

  30. After Edward's accession, Cox's opinions took a more Protestant turn, and he became one of the most active agents of the Reformation.

  31. Many people believe that German butlers in the employ of British Cabinet ministers and British generals have been the most important agents for conveying military information to the enemy.

  32. The truth is that they are all governmental agents whose duty it is to familiarize themselves with the details of every visitor's business.

  33. Whereupon the Vice-Consul of Vigo proceeded to dictate his secret message, which showed how very wide his consular duties had become in wartime--duties such as only Teutonic diplomatic agents are expected to carry out.

  34. But before she proceeded to Holland, as Secret Service agents of the British and French Governments ascertained, she visited a certain English manufacturing city, where, it so happened, the tanks were being constructed.

  35. As a matter of fact, many Germans who have served in the Legion have had, on their return home, nothing but good to say about it, and have become voluntary recruiting agents for France, hence an increased bitterness on the part of the Huns.

  36. All these duties (of espionage) are subdivided among agents of every grade, from Ambassadors and their attaches downward.

  37. When dogs are to be trained as communication agents the instruction may take several weeks.

  38. His impression that revolution always fixed its especial object in plunder, found another authority in one of the peculiar agents of public disturbance.

  39. Europe had been often scandalised by breaches of political faith, but the agents and the sufferers were sovereigns and nations.

  40. It is your business, and no paid agents can represent you.

  41. How the viands diminished under the action of so many agents of destruction, I need not say, nor is it necessary that you should listen to the long recital.

  42. One of the agents arrived this afternoon from the Gros Ventre, or Minnetaree Village, about twelve miles above us.

  43. Some carry their cargoes to other parts before drying them, while others dispose of them to agents from distant shores.

  44. He would first set himself to show what could be done by native efforts; he would travel about, wherever he found a road, and after inquiries, settle native agents far and wide.

  45. The Count returned to London before Livingstone left, and expressed a wish to send a number of Portuguese agents along with him.

  46. The field from which native agents might be drawn was thus too small.

  47. The agents of the Universities Missions also arrived, the first, detachment consisting of Bishop Mackenzie and five other Englishmen, and five colored men from the Cape.

  48. With him he stationed one of the native agents as a teacher, the chief himself collecting the children and supplying them with food.

  49. Mabotsa would become a centre from which native missionary agents would radiate over a large circumference.

  50. In other words the agents may be condemned or honored according to their intentions, and the apparent source of their motives; so we honor Brutus, but the extreme case itself is tried by the event.

  51. Here now it is a clear point that the moral actions of all accountable agents were, with certainty, fore-known, and their doom unalterably fixed, long before any one of them existed.

  52. We shall send forth agents to lift up the voice of remonstrance, of warning, of entreaty and rebuke.

  53. How the titled agents of Metternich and Nicholas must have trembled, in view of this imposing demonstration, for the safety of their "peculiar institutions!

  54. The shopkeeper, however honest, would find it impossible always to distinguish between the African slave-trader or his agents and other dealers.

  55. Justice can find agents more expert than he, but its ministry is too coarse for the subtle sentiments of the fireside.

  56. Much of all this is held by trusted agents as ostensible owners, but he gives their names and addresses.

  57. He believed London agents honestly were seeking more decisive results, but there was little immediate or remote prospect of success.

  58. Linke, however, declares 'that even the most subtle re-agents failed to discover any trace' of either cobalt or copper in the blue enamel.

  59. These active agents had the appearance of men from the country, and were generally supposed to be old friends and confederates of Wilson, whose minds were of course highly excited against Porteous.

  60. A loud shout proclaimed the stern delight with which the agents of this deed regarded its completion.

  61. At the time the "Nashville" arrived in Southampton, I had a large quantity of supplies ready for shipment, but was deterred by the endeavors of agents of the United States Government to stop me.

  62. More devoted or more intelligent and trustworthy agents than were Fraser, Trenholm & Co.

  63. The requirements for the diplomatic agents were trifling compared with those of the army for supplies and the navy for building, equipping and manning ships.

  64. The worst sovereigns found flatterers or agents in ecclesiastics.

  65. Agents of the Scotch "Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge.

  66. As the university Trustees have expressed a great regard for the laws, the undersigned have a right to expect that neither they, or any agents appointed by them, will resort to illegal measures to seize on the college buildings and property.

  67. Whitaker seem to have been the principal agents to confer with Governor Wentworth in regard to the Charter.

  68. When Mr. Wheelock's agents went abroad he had a school of about thirty, and an empty treasury.

  69. In which affair I employed proper agents to view the several situations proposed, and hear the several arguments and reasons that might be offered by the solicitors for it, and make a faithful report of the same.

  70. Agents of the Corporation in London referred to on page 2, of which Robert Boyle was governor.

  71. The Administration has been organised on sound lines, but the Government is still that of an autocrat ruling through agents responsible to him, and to him alone.

  72. Agents sent by Louis had tempted the people of Liege to rebel against their superior, Duke Charles, and persecute and murder their Bishop.

  73. Your Majesty," said Oliver, "may find many agents who will serve you on the terms of acting rather after their own pleasure than your instructions.

  74. It's a fact we can't escape from that you and I are not free agents and we haven't been from the very moment we met at May's house.

  75. The Governor asked particularly as to the man's experiences and treatment on the road, and whether he had complained of the hospitality extended by any of the agents of the underground.

  76. There was only one upper available, said the agent with the usual optimistic suggestion of ticket agents that something better might be found when the train came in.

  77. A more serious matter for concern was the possibility that the Governor or his agents might attempt to steal her away from him while she was in his care.


  78. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "agents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.