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Examples of agency

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States can provide their partners with funds, equipment and technology, and organizational blueprints to alter the format of such agencies.
Bureaucratic agencies often seek to broaden their institutional autonomy, and skillfully develop mechanisms to accomplish this.
Figure 1 (over) shows the resources held by ministers, departments and agencies.
The differential financial, legal, managerial and structural autonomies granted to agencies clearly led to differing relationships between agencies and the parent department and its minister.
Moreover, most aid agencies are unable to think beyond the limits of liberal selfmanagement.
Basically, it is no longer sufficient for humanitarian agencies to save lives.
Does knowledge-based aid make for more efficient and effective agencies ?
Established full-time workers employed by these companies and by state agencies are also included in this category.
The financial well-being of the water sector in many countries has been undermined by the non-payment of water bills by government agencies.
However, the company's financial position was overshadowed by low prices and non-payment by government agencies.
There are several challenges for agencies involved in conducting good international investigations of foodborne illness.
Many psychological and social factors need to be taken into account before assuming policies that characterize secure information sharing in and among agencies.
The combined prejudices of advertisers and advertising agencies has resulted in a continued negative attitude towards the older population.
Other helpers would appreciate additional services from other agencies - but older people are not always willing to accept these.
In 2002, there were 417 crewing agencies involved in the recruitment, processing and deployment of the 209,953 seafarers recorded as being contracted.
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Collocations withagency

agency

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administrative agency
The legislature may adopt a vague standard that is to be applied in the first instance by an administrative agency.
appropriate agency
This process incorporates in every case, advice from legal advisers of the appropriate agency.
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