Sentence examples for main instrument of from inspiring English sources

The Haqqanis previously were the main instrument of Pakistan's forward strategy in North Waziristan.

The army had been the main instrument of repression under Saddam Hussein.

Mr Putin's main instrument of governance has been money that bought loyalty.

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

The association, which claims to have 7,000 members, some from as far away as Philadelphia, is the main instrument of Mr. Fernandez's political muscle.

"The main instrument of this battle is reform, reform and, once again, reform," Mr. Prodi said as he stood beside Mr. Raffarin.

The main instrument on board of the spacecraft is the Large Area Telescope (LAT), a high energy pair conversion telescope consisting of three major subsystems: a precision silicon tracker/converter, a CsI electromagnetic calorimeter and a segmented anti-coincidence system.

Section 702 of FISA is one of the main instruments of that surveillance policy.

Assad who rules Syria through a quartet of trusted comrades, who control the main instruments of police & military power.

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

An added piquancy was that one of the main instruments of its destruction -- voted official Man of the Match -- was a batsman of Indian descent.