Sentence examples for an instrument of progress from inspiring English sources

Disappointed, Roosevelt chided the Court anyway, accusing it of using the Constitution "as a device for prevention of action" instead of an "instrument of progress".

This is a moving and powerful early use of the camera as an instrument of social progress.

Brandeis thought the law an instrument of morality and progress.

If he fails, our nation will not only miss out on an opportunity to save tens of thousands of Americans from shorter and more painful lives, it will move one step further in losing the Supreme Court as an instrument of justice, fairness and social progress.

That is why humor has always been a characteristic of philosophical and liberal genius, the sea of the human spirit, the irresistible instrument of progress Stagnant peoples are always solemn people: the manof a people that laughs is a thousand times closer to reason & liberty than the anchorite who prays or the philosopher who argues.

If this goes down, if... the Affordable Care Act is deemed a failure, this is the end -- I really mean it -- of liberal government, in the sense of any sense that government as an instrument of social justice, an engine of economic progress... Time and again, social programs have made the difference in this country.

Without faith to elevate it, he writes, "reason" became an instrument of irrational rationalism that produced the most destructive schemes of human improvement - a "faith in progress" that grew into "progress in evil".

"And Glenn was an instrument of that".

The Pegasus is an instrument of ExxonMobil.

"It's an instrument of torture".

Leaks were an instrument of information warfare.