Sentence examples for a tool of state from inspiring English sources

Nineteen Eighty-four offered us 24-hour electronic surveillance as a tool of state power.

IRI became a tool of state planning, and not just in the south.

The efficacy of songbun as a tool of state control lies in it being forward-looking as well as regressive.

FOR generations of Russian leaders, the law has been a tool of state power, not a limit on its abuse.

"Pakistan has been using terrorism as a tool of state policy for decades, and Afghanistan has been the victim of terrorism for decades.

The decision as a whole links to a larger history of how language is used as a tool of state repression.

Concern is mounting that British aid money may be funding programmes for police who are using rape as a tool of state-sanctioned torture against women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Is she a tool of the state?

The Russian Orthodox Church has become a tool of the state.

Japan Post has long been a tool of the state.

What began as a tool of the state quickly became a tool of the people.