They also became a tool of commerce.
Later, at the press conference, Trump described him as both a liar and a tool of Democratic Party.
His critics, including many of his fellow Catholic scholars, argue that he is turning the church into a tool of Republican Party.
Cultural artifacts, from high to low, are judged for their potential as either a tool of Trump's propaganda operation or of the resistance to it.
He is editor of several books including Human Rights Futures Cambridge University Presss, August 2017), with Stephen Hopgood and Leslie Vinjamuri; Ranking the World: Grading States as a Tool of Global Governance, with Alexander Cooley, and Religion and International Relations Theory.
He said: "It's me or NATO!" But the opposition finally managed to unite, and it shrewdly chose a candidate, Vojislav Kostunica, who could not be tarred as a tool of NATO.
The China Media Project reports: It was an editorial in Beijing Daily, the official Party mouthpiece of the Beijing city leadership, criticizing the Nobel Peace Prize as a "tool of Western values and ideology," and snidely suggesting that this year's prize be given instead to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
Essentially the more wild the swings in its value, the less useful Bitcoin is as a tool of commerce.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has dismissed the indictments as a failed attempt to sow strife and says the tribunal is a tool of US and Israeli policy.
"Instead of enhancing and protecting human rights the veto has become a tool of LGBTQ oppression," says Danny Toner, editor of The Gay Say, a local LGBT news blog that's taken a prominent role in the Vote Proudly movement.
Eisenhower's phrasing, "as analyzed for me by the Secretary of State," led Bricker and other conservatives to blame Dulles for misleading Eisenhower, and raised their suspicion that the Secretary of State was a tool of Eastern internationalist interests.
