Sentence examples for the tools of state from inspiring English sources

And I think we need to engage with all the tools of state that we have -- economic tools along with foreign relations, diplomatic and military tools as well.

In a 2011 posting, the Saudi judiciary was called "one of the tools of state-sponsored terrorism".

"The Egyptian people were concerned that the tools of the state could be used against them.

Although the president is considered moderate, he said last year that after the council issues any fatwas, "the tools of the state can do their duty".

Their shared thesis is that governments, needing a way to keep the populace in fear, orchestrate mock calamities, using the tools of the state to cover their tracks.

The $2.5 billion Curiosity project, Nasa's first astrobiology mission since the 1970s-era Viking probes to Mars, is the first to bring all the tools of a state-of-the-art geochemistry laboratory to the surface of a distant planet.

The South African government employed all the usual tools of state terrorism – murder, torture, beatings, incarceration and daily repression – to keep the oppressed majority out of power.

It was as if the authorities had dispensed with such abstract representations of justice because the real thing — the tangible, functional tools of state control — were so obvious.

And on the bottom what he has is a juxtaposition of the tools of the secular state with the tools of religious authority.

The tools of the security state, and especially its intelligence services, should not be placed at the hands of an increasingly self-absorbed couple looking to punish their enemies.

Thanks to Snowden, we learned that the NSA were essentially secretly building the tools of a police state.