Sentence examples for instruments of force from inspiring English sources

(4) Nor does his commitment to national groupings involve a centralized or militaristic state (in the Ideas and elsewhere he strongly advocates the disappearance of such a state and its replacement by loosely federated local governments with minimal instruments of force).

If there are fewer instruments of force to keep the peace, there has to be wiser means of persuasion to reach peaceful ends.

For instance, the police and army are quite obviously instruments of force and coercion, but it would be facile to say that they have power simply because of their ability to physically coerce.

Historically, when government agents invaded people's privacy they had to resort to the blunt instruments of force and violence, either torturing the body in the belief it could unlock the mind's secrets or kicking down doors to rifle through a target's personal effects and communications.

Not because they were wrong, but because they were trying to use fear as an instrument of force.

Some complained about waiting two hours or more to complete the process, but most praised the program for taking instruments of deadly force out of circulation.

How Tasers became instruments of excessive force for the Border Patrol.

Nor are we comparable with the communist system and its rationalized instruments of surveillance, force and coercion.

But Colonel López, unlike the commander of the Dominican army, is maintaining a tight control over the mainly civilian cabinet by keeping the top position, as "head of government," for himself.One of Sr Juan Bosch's fatal mistakes, whether because of lack of time or faulty judgment, was to fail to create his own instruments of power to confront the armed forces with.

Candidates and parties who become the vehicles of angry outsiders, as Mitt Romney is now, don't really have control of their own campaigns anymore; to a large extent, they are the instruments of volatile forces beyond their own reckoning.

Industry and invention leading to a 'triumph' of science over nature; the presumption of military dominance on behalf of what we perceive as the 'right' values; the newfound power to bring about annihilation of life; and the moral and ethical conundrums that the possession of such an instrument of destruction force upon us".