Sentence examples for as a legitimate tool from inspiring English sources
A spokesman for Mr. Edwards defended the center yesterday as a legitimate tool against poverty.
War, it seems, has made a comeback this year as a legitimate tool for "the continuation of political intercourse".
Like so many state actions we now condemn, ethnic cleansing was viewed not so long ago as a legitimate tool of foreign policy.
And Russia's government has made little secret that it regards energy as a legitimate tool of foreign policy in an energy hungry world.
In the view of Americans concerned with privacy the Republicans have been unenthusiastic about restricting what is seen as a legitimate tool of business.
On the other hand, there is the rising militarization of police forces; equipment that they would claim as a legitimate tool of defense, in the dispersal of chaos, is often seen by civilians as an exacerbating threat, and there are sequences here, with officers arrayed in gas masks and guns mounted atop armored vehicles, that would not look out of place in a war film.
The authors came to the conclusion that Russia by using such resource as "solid power" is able to withstand "hard power", that is the power that actually became a legitimate tool of American foreign policy.
