Sentence examples for tool of state from inspiring English sources

Nineteen Eighty-four offered us 24-hour electronic surveillance as a tool of state power.

IRI became a tool of state planning, and not just in the south.

The efficacy of songbun as a tool of state control lies in it being forward-looking as well as regressive.

FOR generations of Russian leaders, the law has been a tool of state power, not a limit on its abuse.

After a brief period of relative openness (compared to what followed) in the 1920s, literature became a tool of state propaganda.

This open discussion of killing Mr. Hussein marks a profound retreat from the longstanding insistence that the United States did not and would not use assassination as a tool of state.

Concern is mounting that British aid money may be funding programmes for police who are using rape as a tool of state-sanctioned torture against women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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.

When Mary Garran was tending her cow in what is now downtown Sydney, local councils were little more than administrative tools of state governments.

Mr Le Maire is frank that French farmers long for a return to price controls, production quotas and other tools of state planning.