His suit is left behind, to become the instrument of Philomen's whimsical and cruel revenge upon his wife.
But by the 14th century Hōjō influence itself had declined considerably, and the regency had become the instrument of yet another family, the Nagasaki.
Through its attempts to keep tabs on every pound spent by the state, it has become the instrument of Britain's centralisation.
By the time of the reign of Henry VII (1485 1509), the king's council had become the instrument of the crown; it was made up of the Privy Council, the prerogative courts of Chancery, Star Chamber, and High Commission, and their local subsidiaries.
"About four months before we went in, the President and I had a meeting with the U.N. Secretary-General, and he was saying that most of the world believes that the U.N. has become the instrument of Western powers.
In 1986, he wrote "The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide," (Basic Books), which tried to explain how a profession devoted to saving lives could become the instrument of genocide.
It was not only that I admired her style, her generosity, her detachment (such a respite from the me that was me); she had become the instrument of my illumination.
But Mr Hussein is guileful as well as guilty, and the tormentor of Iraq has manipulated events so that the West, through its insistence on the continuance of the United Nations' sanctions, has become the instrument of his countrymen's torment.
The light, carefree strum that has become the instrument's sonic stereotype invokes innocence, sincerity and childlike wonder, as well as nostalgia for a pre-rock 'n' roll era.
