The treaty was ratified 'through the agency of' a neutral country.
He found work as a mechanic through an 'employment agency'.
an athlete who has become eligible for 'free agency'
(..) Whatever it is... it's nuclear. Identify yourself to the world. Dr. Leonid Pavel... nuclear physicist. Pavel was confirmed dead. Plane crash on an agency pull out of Uzbekistan, but.... It looks like it's him. And what...? What is this? It's a... fully primed neutron bomb... (..)2012 The Dark Knight Rises
(..) The masked man. - Bane? - Aye. Get 'em on board. I'll call it in. The flight plan I just filed with the agency... lists me, my men, Dr. Pavel here... but only one... of you! First one to talk gets to stay on my aircraft! Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel? (..)2012 The Dark Knight Rises