Basic research is an essential part of these fields, and practical applications of methods and tools by authorities and industry are only possible because there is basic research that develops these methods and contributes to the scoping of problems and identifying relevant questions and tasks.
"The 'foreign agents' law is one of many tools the authorities are using to tar independent groups as 'spies,'" Tanya Lokshina, Russia program director at Human Rights Watch said previously.
They should give him the profile as well as the tools and authorities to do the job he has been asked to do.
Now the world has to give courts the proper tools, and authority, to do that.
Technological advances mean that the Internet is perhaps the most valuable tool the authorities have in plugging their "open for business" message.
"Obviously, it adds another tool that authorities would have to snoop on people," said Jeremy Goldkorn, publisher of Danwei.org, a Web site about Chinese media and the Internet.
The artist's enormous curatorial feat is a reminder that the conventions employed by museums are the tools of authority: they tell us which art is important art, what history is true history.
With added prosecutorial tools — the authority to use wiretaps in investigations, for instance — and more aggressive efforts to identify victims and to help them to escape their tormentors, there is hope for progress in coming years.
It has become a truism of the financial crisis that the system was prone to collapse because there was no single regulator who had the legal tools and authority to prevent a systemwide meltdown.
"This is really useful in getting out of the mode of thinking that the presidency is defined simply by your relationship with Congress, as opposed to using all the tools of authority you have as president".
