These reforms were pro-social, life affirming, non-lethal interventions, amounting to a repudiation of criminal justice as the blunt instrument of social order.
As a sensible older sister myself, my heart always went out to those whom the fates, via the irrevocable instrument of birth order, so thoroughly frustrated.
Mr Starr's conduct leaves the strong impression that had he been born earlier, he would have joined the ranks of the Dominican order, devoting his life to the invention of better instruments of torture in order to extract his kind of truth from witnesses.
The Cherenkov Telescopes Array (CTA) is planned as the future instrument for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy with a wide energy range of four orders of magnitude and an improvement in sensitivity compared to current instruments of about an order of magnitude.
He also pointed out that the fathometer, a water depth-reading instrument, was out of order and had not been repaired in the yard.
The proportion of out-of-order instruments was 50% in government eye units, 47% in NGO and 3% in for-profit facilities.
Some call for new instruments of law and order, like tamper-proof ID cards.
In time of pain and chaos, we are instruments of mercy and order.
The needs of the current situation become clearer, we become instruments of a greater order and consequently our actions become more effortless.
They record the training of observers at Greenwich from 1872 and the assembling of instruments and ordering of stores for the five British expeditions – which were just one part of an international effort.
