Sentence examples for rational instrument from inspiring English sources
To that extent it has been a rational instrument of foreign policy.
These no longer regarded war as a rational instrument of state policy.
They soon evolved, however, into a more rational instrument of decisionmaking -- serving as a representative group of peers to sit in judgment on a defendant's guilt.
But for some soldiers and spooks, the manipulation of the jihadists on Pakistan's soil remains a rational instrument of foreign policy.
Clausewitz cogently defines war as a rational instrument of foreign policy: "an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfill our will".
Most leadership theories treat interagency relations as a rational instrument for fulfilling goals, especially resource procurement.
In the relative order of post-Napoleonic Europe, the mainstream of theory returned to the idea of war as a rational, limited instrument of national policy.
His path to peace is based on the degree to which social change and the resolution of conflict can be achieved by an embrace of nonviolent tactics and ideas, combined with his assessment that a combination of nuclear weaponry and "people's war" has rendered war essentially obsolete as a rational political instrument.
Consistent with a dual processing model of reasoning, this instrument measures rational (need for cognition) and experiential (faith in intuition) thinking styles.
Limitations on size, density, and area are absolutely necessary ; they are the most important instruments of rational economic and civic planning" (Mumford 1938: 488).
It suggests that such weapons of mass destruction are not heinous inventions but rather instruments of rational policy when in the hands of the virtuous.
