Word: instrumentalized
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...urgency of replacing Saddam’s regime comes from his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction,” Kristol said. “His past use of terrorism as an instrument of statecraft and threats to revitalize his nuclear program makes a quick and decisive attack necessary...
...rest periods come out of a time of the year when the intensity is already much below what it is during the season, the period when our intercollegiate athletes need the time,” Lewis says. “It’s a bit of a blunt instrument for the league to be using to address the very real time and intensity problems the league faces...
Ritter now has two albums to his name: a self-titled debut and his 2002 release Golden Age of Radio, which consists of 12 sparsely-arranged songs whose central instrument is Ritter’s acoustic guitar. How is he enjoying touring? “It’s the perfect job,” he says, and there are “bigger and better things to come...
...Filtering is seemingly inconsistent with the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” he said. “It also [indicates] that the Internet may be an instrument of censorship, political restrictions, discipline or other state control. In this context, carefully documenting the specific details of the changes is arguably helpful to those who seek to study, analyze, and debate such policies...
...operative instrument here is not the guitar or piano but the love-torn heart, which is what makes all the talk of loss and resurrection actually believable. His campfire blues on “Lonesome Tears” are exactly that, simple and honest—“How could this love ever-changing / Never change the way I feel...