Sentence examples for formidable instrument from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Buckley was also instrumental in transforming the fledgling state Conservative Party into a formidable instrument that helped depose another liberal Republican icon, Senator Jacob K. Javits, and helped thwart the national ambitions of the conservatives' nemesis, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller.

The Emmy statuette is a formidable instrument.

That formidable instrument is Ms. Everett's calling card, her ace in the hole, her artistic raison d'être around which everything else coheres.

According to Grant (2007, 201), during the late Middle Ages "the imagination became a formidable instrument in natural philosophy and theology in ways that would have astonished" ancient Greek natural philosophers, especially Aristotle.

If it were better understood, its typological characteristics and appropriate indicators could turn it into a formidable instrument for analysing urban reality and managing the interaction between cities and their environment.

Whatever its causes, the rise of adversarial questioning has transformed the news interview into a formidable instrument of political accountability, but it has also stimulated increasingly sophisticated strategies of evasion aided by a burgeoning cottage industry of media advisors and consultants.

Alexander Hamilton called "arbitrary imprisonments" by the executive "the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny".

"The practice of arbitrary imprisonments," Alexander Hamilton observed in Federalist No. 84, has been "in all ages" one of "the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny".

Even as drill masters studied ancient Roman textbooks to recover the discipline that made the legions formidable instruments of policy, so too did strategists return to a Classical world in which the logic of foreign policy shaped the conduct of war.

It begins with a quotation from Alexander Hamilton -- "The creation of crimes after the commission of the fact... and the practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny" -- and goes on to request that the court release Hamdan from solitary and declare the tribunals unconstitutional.

Historically, elephants were considered formidable instruments of war.