Sentence examples for potent instruments from inspiring English sources

But buildings are pieces of the city, and potent instruments for urban change.

Knowledge is one of the most potent instruments we have for improving health worldwide.

In civvy street, Simon's only asset was his pen, a far more potent instrument than his unwieldy sword.

As his work through the decades made clear, Mr. Lockwood regarded photojournalism as a potent instrument for social change.

Mr. Henry's embattled growl, with its Southern soul inflections, is a potent instrument that puts a personal stamp on lyrics that follow the elliptical style of Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello.

Twenty years on, the New Yorker's voice remains a potent instrument – supple, vulnerable and seemingly effortless – while his songs, for all their electronic touches, are still anchored in soul's 70s golden age.

And so "John Brown's Body" could serve as an especially potent instrument of anti-Confederate animus and aggression, a sort of musical thumbing of the nose that did not necessarily specify any ideological foundation for the gesture.

The NATO-led Stabilisation Force has largely neutered the Bosnian Serb army and police by controlling their weapons and movements, leaving television as the Pale lot's most potent instrument.

From ancient clusters of population, impressive civilizations emerged in Egypt, China, and India during the 3rd millennium bc, bringing with them not only dazzling advances in culture but also the potent instrument of state power as a new moving force in history.

The city, he therefore says, has become the most potent instrument for social and economic change in America today.

Insertional mutagenesis in mice is a potent instrument for cancer gene discovery.