Sentence examples for being tools from inspiring English sources
We don't blame others for having ambitions, but we blame ourselves for being tools in their hands".
ReprintsAs competing European powers fought for territory, maps went from being tools for navigation to instruments of warfare.
"Herod's Law" is losing its grip, as institutions shift from being tools of the executive to being checks and balances on it.
Finally, the government was forced to release the arrested students, to dismiss some officials charged with being tools of Japan, and to refuse to sign the Treaty of Versailles.
In addition the protesters accuse the siting commission of everything from lying about soil conditions and being tools of the nuclear industry to trying to take advantage of a thinly populated, politically weak area.
The place of suburbs in our collective psyche has been on my mind recently, as last year, with great internal drama, I moved out of the city, got a cat for my daughter — pets, of course, traditionally being tools for children to practice grief upon — and settled all the way down.
Blogs (and Twitter) are tools.
"We are tools, not journalists.
"What are tools?" answered Watson.
Mangoes have even been tools of diplomacy.
