Sentence examples for instrument of state from inspiring English sources

Fertility had become an instrument of state control.

"Torture and gang rape as an instrument of state terror".

For both regimes, making people anonymous in death was a key instrument of state terror.

These no longer regarded war as a rational instrument of state policy.

The first was the decision to embrace fiscal policy — Keynesianism — as the main instrument of state regulation of the economy.

"Enforced disappearance has become a key instrument of state policy in Egypt," said Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa director Philip Luther.

For another, she has for decades scrutinised torture as an instrument of state-sanctioned policy, a preoccupation that grew out of her 1985 monograph The Body in Pain.

But they are essentially instruments of state power.

Legal institutions like courts became instruments of state power, and even after 17 years, people are still suspicious of them.

The instruments of state were deployed in such a way as to reward allies and punish areas and populations that had supported the rebels.

Mr. Kostunica, a constitutional scholar trying to consolidate his position, wants to keep the main instruments of state power under his control.