Should parental love be used as a tool for controlling children?
But Philippine courts have refused to resort to the use of such damage awards as a tool for controlling behavior, particularly that of businessmen.
Because it spreads in the environment, a gene drive also exerts power over geography and may be a tool for controlling agriculture, food security and land.
The main tool for controlling inflation once it begins -- higher interest rates -- would be disastrous for the government's finances, they say.
Schindler and Stephenson both believe episodic division will remain popular because it is a useful tool for controlling the pace of consumption, like chapters in books.
As a tool for controlling immigration to the United States, the border fortifications have been remarkably ill suited to the task.
The electoral council, which is broadly seen as President Préval's tool for controlling the process, has for a second time effectively barred Aristide's Lavalas Party from participating, citing various technicalities.
But he added that if government borrowing costs interfered with the central bank's ability to influence interest rates, its main tool for controlling inflation, "they come within our mandate".
A couple of weeks ago, he announced plans to turn a 2011 law intended to control violence at soccer games into a tool for controlling politics at the matches as well.
The longer-term concern, he said, is that video surveillance will become a pervasive tool for controlling not only China's comparative handful of dissidents, but the masses of people who ordinarily would not run afoul of the state.
Green data geeks now have another tool for controlling their energy consumption.
