185 adjectives to describe agencies

I myself have seen what utterly confounded me, and while I reject all idea of supernatural agencies, all interposition of departed spirits, yet I have become thoroughly satisfied that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.

marriage broker; matrimonial agency, matrimonial agent, matrimonial bureau, matchmaker; schatchen

The latter consider the external life and activity of the unit as an element in the collective external life of the communityas part of a common work; the former considers the unity as a free spiritual agency, an end for itselfwhose liberty is curtailed only by the claims of other like agencies, equal or greater.

They never quite got rid of a haunting dread that perhaps, after all, they might be nothing better than insignificant and unheeded atoms, swept hither and thither in the mighty eddies of an unseen, impersonal, mysterious agency, and destined hereafter "to be sealed amid the iron hills," or "To be imprisoned in the viewless winds.

Homaeopathy is one of its many phases; the most imaginative, the most elegant, and, it is fair to say, the least noxious in its direct agencies.

The revenues of the clergy, which were by the act of submission transferred to the treasury of Ivan, were immediately devoted by him to the service of three hundred thousand followers of boyars, through whose intermediate agency he intended to assert and maintain his unlimited and supreme authority over the fallen city.

Vathek would have followed the perfidious giaour had not an invisible agency arrested his progress and that of the multitude; and he was so much struck by the whole circumstance that he ordered his tents to be pitched on the very edge of the precipice.

The point is, however, that each is linked to a specific congeries of tendencies, limitations, effective or defective agencies, that are what they have been made by the parents of the race.

The constant operation of such potent agency would reduce me, I am convinced, to imbecility.

CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH P. The judicial function in Federal administrative agencies, by Joseph P. Chamberlain, Noel T. Dowling & Paul R. Hays.

Societies of noble-minded women, organizations of worthy men, are giving their moral and material support to governmental agencies in their effort to eliminate, as causes of war, disputes which frequently have led to armed conflicts between nations.

Then one might observe the mystery of a furrow ploughing itself swiftly across the billows without visible agency.

The telegraphic machine was a great invention; but the great thing was the development of the science of electricity, the discovery of the secret agency which sent forward the thought entrusted to it swifter than light.

It is known that every beam of light is accompanied by a beam of chemical agency, totally undiscoverable to the senses of light or warmth, but admitting of separation from the luminous and warm rays; and producing photogenic effects.

Fullaway's all right, so far as the various commercial agencies knownothing ever been heard against him, anyhow.

The present apathy as to the tendency of certain active yet unseen mental agencies will finally be shocked into another extreme mortal mood,into human indignation; for one extreme follows another.

They specialize in jewelleryuseless, barbaric and generally vulgar survivalswhich they extract from shop and safe, and sell in Amsterdam, distributing the proceeds to various deserving charitable agencies.

He was willing to believe in preternatural agency, and thought it not more strange, that there should be evil spirits than evil men.

Finally, Mr. Spencer discusses industrial organization; that is to say, the development of productive and distributive agencies, considered in its necessary causes, comprehending not only the progressive division of labor and the increasing complexity of each industrial agency, but also the successive forms of industrial government as passing through like phases with political government.

The Church, according to the testimony of her most approved writers, recognises three descriptions of ecstasy; of which the first is simply natural, and entirely brought about by certain physical tendencies and a highly imaginative mind; the second divine or angelic, arising from intercourse held with the supernatural world; and the third produced by infernal agency.

If first there is recognized the error of assessing the equitable ownership interests in addition to the body of wealth, and secondly there is created an efficient agency of assessment, the taxation of corporations can be logically and easily brought into accord with a harmonious system of state and local taxation.

This destructive agency was almost as baneful and effective as the mythical Noah's flood.

So you see, the doctor is constantly in presence of a benevolent agency working against a settled order of things, of which pain and disease are the accidents, so to speak.

And hence it may not be hazardous to conclude that very ordinary metamorphic agencies may convert these polar caps into a form of quartzite.

" Born in 1389, he early evinced mercantile proclivities, and when a lad of no more than seventeen Messer Giovanni, his father, placed him in charge successively of several of the foreign agencies of the Medici bank.

185 adjectives to describe  agencies