Sentence examples for formidable instruments of from inspiring English sources

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".

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.

Lithuanians have long avoided confronting the two most formidable instruments of Soviet power - the K.G.B. and the army - but in the last month demands for removal of the military and security police have risen.

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.

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.

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.

The fact remains, dancers start in childhood to fashion their bodies into formidable instruments.

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.

But all in all, by the end of Opportunity and its twin Spirit's 90-day missions, Grotzinger said, "we had done pretty much everything the vehicle could do". With Curiosity's far more formidable arsenal of instruments, Grotzinger thinks the Mars Science Laboratory team will be able to teach the rover a few new scientific tricks to try out on Mars.