Sentence examples for thing instrumental from inspiring English sources

One Thing (Instrumental).

This care is shown first in possibility: man makes things instrumental to his concerns and so projects forward.

He had had a distinguished career in British politics, and he had been, among other things, instrumental in creating the British Library.

Former Mayor Oscar Goodman – the one-time mob lawyer who brags openly about getting his (now deceased) client Anthony Thee Ant' Spilotro out of the 'whole head-in-a-vice thing' – was instrumental in making all this happen, and on the whole, Las Vegans love him for it.

"No… I mean, that's another thing with instrumental music" she begins.

"There's a moment in 'Goats in Trees' where you hear this weird crackly instrument, shifting vocal thing during an instrumental part," Foster continued.

THE ever expanding Occupy Wall Street movement, with encampments now not only in Lower Manhattan but also in Washington, London and other cities, proves among other things that no matter how instrumental new media have become in spreading protest these days, nothing replaces people taking to the streets.

(As it happens, Bach once did a similar thing: in the instrumental march of Cantata No. 207, a movement apparently used for a student processional in a large space, he asked that the parts be reinforced by as many as seven players).

Basically, we [she and Ahmadzaï] had recorded the whole song and we had this instrumental thing at the end," said Madonna, "and Mirwais was like, 'You know what, you have to go and do a rap.' And I was like, 'Get out of here, I don't rap.' And he was like, 'Yeah you do.

Viveca Novak, a director at the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-profit that tracks the effects of lobbying on public policy, said: "People who have held key posts in the administration or in Congress are prized in the private sector because of their connections and their knowledge of how the process works, two things that are instrumental to getting anything done – or undone – in Washington.

They hold that women are not truly blameworthy for their reduction to things of merely instrumental value.