Sentence examples for mere tool from inspiring English sources

Ferrante: First of all, I would not reduce education to a mere tool of emancipation.

Taking their cue from this admission, some historians wrote him off as a mere tool of the Führer.

The Obama campaign has transformed donating from a mere tool to generate revenue into a way of participating in an event, a cultural phenomenon.

But far from being a romantic rule-breaker, ronin or rebel operating beyond the restraints of society, he is a mere tool of the system.

I'm glad it wasn't the Pirates of Penzance.'... then with dark plotting, and later the silent pleading of: "I am not a mere tool of the capitalist society".

The study's authors surmise that English has become seen as a mere tool, divorced in many minds from its associations with Britain and America.

Can we become mere tools of others without losing our humanity?

By Ben McGrath Liberals saw the activists as caricatures — mere tools of right-wing media figures like Glenn Beck.

The Pikmin are, on a functional level, mere tools for progression.

So are the accounts destined to be mere tools of the affluent?

These are important issues; it's facile to dismiss opponents of the public plan as mere tools of industry.