Sentence examples for the principal tool from inspiring English sources

TERROR was the principal tool of Saddam Hussein's regime.

Within 10 years, the computer had replaced television as the principal tool of political propagandists.

The principal tool for assuring reliability of stockpile weapons is surveillance, in which samples are periodically disassembled and examined.

The ax again became the principal tool on the return to the more primitive state of technology.

New York was one of the first to use the program, and it remains the principal tool to combat street homelessness in most urban areas across the nation.

Property values are used as the principal tool of urban regeneration and, when those values fail to materialise, so does the regeneration.

The principal tools of the plasterer of that time were in design and purpose like those used today.

Abramski, like the other opinions Kagan has written since arriving on the Court, in 2010, makes clear that she is armed not only with a dictionary but with what she identifies as one of the principal "tools of divining meaning": "common sense".

As in the cold war, the object is to avoid as many shooting battles as possible, and yet conservatives leave little doubt that they believe the principal tools in rooting out terrorism will always be military force abroad and relentless investigations at home.

This is doubly ironic, because even as NGOs contest the effects of globalization, they exhibit many of the characteristics of a global, transnational subculture; the Internet, moreover, is one of the principal tools that makes globalization feasible and organized protests against it possible.

The toe shoes that are among the principal tools of this torment also seem to be surrogates and scapegoats; they are scraped, mutilated and disfigured by the dancers in a symbolic re-enactment of the violence they perform upon themselves in their ruthless pursuit of perfection.