"A hundred years ago, one of the primary tools physicians used was smell," Mr. Sunshine said.
The primary tools of his trade, though, are a turkey baster and a Styrofoam tray.
Her primary tools were her pleasure in the text and her often firsthand knowledge of the playwrights' lives.
Color, light and paint's malleability are his primary tools and subjects.
"Break them from one form of mental life to another," he says, naming fear, distrust and envy as his primary tools.
And one of the primary tools for preventing torture is to prosecute and punish those who are found to have tortured.
Because its primary tools are computers rather than giant, multimillion telescopes, this new form of astronomy has the potential to democratize science.
Because he often uses light and color as his primary tools, it's easy to place Mr. Finch among artists like James Turrell and Olafur Eliasson.
One of his primary tools is an arm-mounted energy cannon, which is fed by reactor cores on his back.
But a genius of cinema he is, though his primary tools are often light and shadow rather than film.
The Compstat system, one of the primary tools credited with helping to bring crime down over the past decade, and the statistics it produces are also the foundation on which the city bases its measure of its residents' safety.
