Sentence examples for became instruments of from inspiring English sources

The départements therefore became instruments of national uniformity and integration, which is to say, centralization.

Legal institutions like courts became instruments of state power, and even after 17 years, people are still suspicious of them.

With the establishment of the Revolutionary dictatorship, beginning in the summer of 1793, the local Jacobin clubs became instruments of the Reign of Terror.

In the late days of the Roman Empire, frame drums became instruments of street musicians and joculatores (professional entertainers); the latter may have been responsible for spreading them beyond the Italian Peninsula.

The cooperative conventions (state and international) also became instruments of ecumenical participation, electing representatives to the old Federal Council of Churches (and to the succeeding National Council and the World Council of Churches) as well as to the state councils.

Worse, our browsers and mobile devices have also became instruments of surveillance, with our activities being reported constantly back to faceless machines and software systems within business and government.

The fronts of the stores themselves would become instruments of harm.

Carved boards, decorated cards, dotted cubes and colored pebbles become instruments of war.

Delattre explained that, by 1800, the Herculaneum scrolls had become instruments of diplomatic and political power.

On high ground, new food businesses have become instruments of provocation.

Yet if not designed and managed well, those same roads can – and often have – become instruments of death.