Sentence examples for instruments of policy from inspiring English sources

But we lack two things: new ways of channelling such idealism into practical instruments of policy, and a political class that is not disabled by its philosophy from the job of realising them.

Even as drill masters studied ancient Roman textbooks to recover the discipline that made the legions formidable instruments of policy, so too did strategists return to a Classical world in which the logic of foreign policy shaped the conduct of war.

But how useful is that as an instrument of policy?

Everyone would renounce the use of war as an instrument of policy.

For some, cyber is becoming an instrument of policy as much as diplomacy or military force.

The state for Nixon and Harper exists not as an instrument of policy making but as an alien force to be subdued.

We have employed torture as an instrument of policy, in flagrant violation of the rule of law, and declined to punish or prosecute the policymakers who authorized it.

On the other hand, the use of war as an instrument of policy was calculated in an unprecedented manner by the nuclear superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.

As the 19th-century Prussian philosopher of war Carl von Clausewitz said, "war should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy".

To be sure, some analysts concluded that war had become so ruinous that it had lost any utility as an instrument of policy.

In the age of Tony Blair, George Bush and other Western leaders favouring the war as an instrument of policy in defiance of legality and the international community, the example given by the postman's son was, and remains, exceptional.