Sentence examples for be the instruments of from inspiring English sources

He prophesied that enemies from the north would be the instruments of Yahweh's judgment on the apostate land and Jerusalem would suffer the fate of a rejected prostitute.

John B. Taylor, the Treasury under secretary for international affairs, said tonight that the I.M.F. and the other banks continued to be the "instruments of choice" for this sort of aid.

He is Brando's Kurtz - or Brando was Corsetti and all the others who find themselves to be the instruments of institutionalised inhumanity by societies who pretend not to be capable of such debased behaviour.

Paradoxically, Undset was at once her nation's most conspicuous violator of traditional sex roles and (in a series of notorious antifeminist jeremiads) their most vocal champion; in "Jenny" she plainly means to show that even extremely strong, virtuous and intelligent women can fall -- and that even the meekest of men can be the instruments of their doom.

The parties claim to be the instruments of democratic change is belied by their functioning in an increasingly undemocratic manner.

The GOHAI and OHIP-14 questionnaires were selected for the study because they are considered to be the instruments of choice for elderly; they are short, allowing higher response rates [ 7].

It was never meant to be the instrument of one great power against another.

"I think the court will be the instrument of retribution," he said.

But it will not be the instrument of impartial, universal justice that its supporters claim.

But can classical music really be the instrument of social change?

It may appear to be the instrument of a purely mechanical realm.