Sentence examples for personal instrument from inspiring English sources

For one thing, the mobile telephone is a personal instrument, not a communal one.

For the machinery of law enforcement has been transformed wholly into the political — even the personal — instrument of one man.

"This gives the pilot a personal instrument to wear all the time," said Stefano Albinati, director of the aviation department at Breitling, the watchmaking company in Grenchen, Switzerland.

Among the people you meet on this 19-hour tour are, in the words of the narrator: * "The pampered son of middle-class parents who turned a whole orchestra of extraordinary musicians into his own personal instrument, wrote nearly 2,000 pieces for it to play, and in the process became America's greatest composer".

When Don lectures on the virtues of his "Soviet hat", a beanie with headphones designed to filter out unwanted knowledge (which is based on real-life artist Krzysztof Wodiczko's "personal instrument", an ironical critique of totalitarianism), he steps dangerously close to being the authority figure – a sort of Stalin in sandals – that he so despises.

President Bush, who talks of his relationship with Jesus as if they'd been Deke fraternity brothers in college and casts himself as God's personal instrument in the war against Evil, may warm the hearts of his Bible-belt supporters, but he offends in Seattle, where Christian, hardly less than Islamic, fundamentalists tend to be viewed as people who've taken a good thing a great deal too far.

Today, almost fourteen billion years later, in a universe dense with cell phones, iPods, microwave ovens, and other objects displaying the current hour, minute, and second, the need for personal instruments dedicated solely to timekeeping is similarly close to nil.

Urgent and beautiful, the sequin-covered banners feel like deeply personal instruments of change.

In agreement to this report, simpler measures such as the observance of Universal Precautions (UP), continuous training of the care staff and the use of anti-HCV positive patients personal instruments which can stop the diffusion of HCV infection in HD centers [ 36] have been mentioned.

The instrument comprises 18 items that reflect 18 different personal, instrumental, leisure, and work-related activities.

The secretary of state for communities and local government treated the well-respected planning system as his personal political instrument, intervening personally in onshore wind applications in an unprecedented number of cases.