Sentence examples for instrumental uses from inspiring English sources

Viviana Zelizer, a sociologist, has argued that money has cultural significance beyond its wholly instrumental uses.

Whether your version is faithful to ours, instrumental, uses only lyrics or fragments thereof or is completely reimagined in every way, it matters not.

Early in the twentieth century the American philosopher John Dewey (see entry on John Dewey) proposed a theory of inquiry based on the instrumental uses of technology.

This proposes that conceptual and symbolic uses may be as important in governance as instrumental uses; science is less privileged; and indicator choice must satisfy a wider range of stakeholders than previously.

Our findings show that experience with the site and even more so, culture, have an effect on users' motivations for using Facebook, as well as their instrumental uses and the time they invest on the site.

During this phase, social network users are driven to connect to known or unknown others by engaging in instrumental uses that create value and content and involve others, while staying active and loyal by investing time in the site.

The prophylactic tile, too, performs a political role, if "political" means the instrumental use of religion in the "new India".

Madison was aware that most nations have made an instrumental use of God (as the endorser of secular policy) and that this dishonors God rather than honors him.

Too many felony indictments against leakers would risk "compromising the government's instrumental use of the press," as Pozen puts it.

He said on Friday that because Mr. Berlusconi was "constantly under pressure and under attack, the temptation may arise in our rank and file to make an instrumental use of legislative power".

So, reason has only an instrumental use.