The phrase "a tool of suppression" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is used to control, limit, or oppress individuals or groups.
Example: "The government implemented new laws that many viewed as a tool of suppression against dissenting voices."
Alternatives: "an instrument of oppression" or "a means of control".
NAACP Chairman Julian Bond said efforts at intimidation and suppression, once a tool of Democrats in the Jim Crow South, "have increasingly become the province of the Republican Party" as it seeks to counter the overwhelming advantage Democrats enjoy among black voters.
Such dismissal of "anticommunist films" from the public was a sign that though they might have been employed as tools of suppression, the public was turning away from them out of their own voluntary sentiment.
The approach developed by the U.S. Forest Service between 1910 1930 was a somewhat perverted version of Clements's work and that of his student Arthur Sampson as shaped by the agency's institutional imperative against fire (with grazing as a tool for fire suppression) and the needs of both regulators and capital for fixed stocking rates regardless of changing rainfall conditions.
"These actions undermine the integrity of the Commission and raise significant concerns the Commission will be used as a tool for voter suppression".
Unless a court intervenes, the census will become yet another tool of voter suppression against communities of color — the same communities that are often targeted by state legislatures determined to depress African American and Latino voter participation.
The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression.
These experiments validate recombinant adenoviral RNAi vectors as a useful tool for suppression of the expression of specific genes in pancreatic islets and beta-cell lines.
Apart from a report of suppression of a single mutation in yeast by streptomycin3, there have been no demonstrations of phenotypic suppression in eukaryotic organisms.
Voter Suppression Tactics Volunteer election observer Don Ford alleges that provisional ballots and crossover ballots are a form of suppression.
