Sentence examples for a tool of last from inspiring English sources

"Terrorism is a high-cost option, a weapon of the weak, a tool of last resort.

It has become a default management tool rather than a tool of last resort".

"It has become a default management tool rather than a tool of last resort," says Laura Downton, of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture.

"The 'go pill' is a tool of last resort," said Maj. Gen. Dan Leaf, the Air Force director of operational capability requirements.

His stated mission was to help wind down the Afghan war and shrink America's war machine to fit a new, post-Bush era in which military force would be a tool of last, rather than first resort.

A spokesman for Engel said that he sees a subpoena as a tool of last resort – not just for the interpreter's testimony, but for everything regarding investigations and oversight of the executive branch.

Infrastructure finance is as much or more a tool of geopolitics today as military alliances.

Historically, the F.B.I. used stings as an investigative tool of last resort, because they required elaborate preparation, and were also vulnerable to accusations of entrapment.

Calculators became available as a tool of commerce in 1820 (see the earlier section Digital calculators), and in 1874 the Remington Arms Company, Inc., sold the first commercially viable typewriter.

Bass's book is both a history and an argument for military interventions as a tool of international justice today.

In several short chapters before and after this story is a shorter and weaker book, in which Gary J. Bass argues for humanitarian military interventions as a tool of international justice today.