Sentence examples for instrument of commerce from inspiring English sources

But he stressed that radio was fundamentally an instrument of commerce and that the FRC should take no action that might imperil that.

"What did she say?" Michael Robertson, 16, cried out, leaning on his instrument of commerce, a snow shovel.

(2) A Tennessee "privilege tax" on the storage of gasoline within the State and its withdrawal from storage for sale or use, when applied to petitioner's gasoline, is not a tax on the use of the gasoline as an instrument of commerce, and burdens the function [p251] of interstate commerce too indirectly and remotely to transgress constitutional limitations.

The tax imposed upon their exercise is therefore not one imposed on the use of the gasoline as an instrument of commerce, and the burden of it is too indirect and remote from the function of interstate commerce itself to transgress constitutional limitations.

Bitcoin is becoming such a real and sizable instrument of commerce that investors are now pouring into new ventures aimed at furthering its use, financing new exchanges and payment systems for the virtual currency.

Dressed in a simple white tunic and tights, Bussell makes herself the pure physical instrument of MacMillan's vision.

Russian television – a tightly controlled instrument of Kremlin policy – has devoted significant airtime to attempting to discredit Baltic governments.

Source: Seizure data (left side) from M.S. Minor, "The Demise of Expropriation as an Instrument of LDC Policy, 1980 1992," Journal of International Business Studies 25 (1994): 177 88.

This work was performed at the Matter at Extreme Conditions (MEC) instrument of LCLS, supported by the US Department of Energy DOE Officece of Science, Fusion Energy Science, under contract no.

As the project at Krasnaya Polyana shows, Gazprom is not just a lucrative state-owned monopoly, but also a powerful instrument of Kremlin policy at home and abroad.

In a dynamic that has been replicated all over the country, the Labour council has become the hand-wringing instrument of Conservative austerity.