The tools of combat to control mosquito-borne diseases like dengue fever mostly fall into three groups: kill, repel, or prevent.
In descriptions like this, the hardcore kids seem less like pioneers and more like relics: the last of a long line of sturdy working-class white guys who prowled the city streets, armed with whatever tools of combat they could find.
Connection and dialogue are primarily tools of understanding, not tools of combat.
His tools of combat are practical, makeshift things found in the environment and hastily cobbled together to create some manner of effective weaponry.
Another senior Defense Department official briefed on the decision said the military, by its size and global reach, remained one of the government's most visible tools for projecting American influence and defining its values, especially in operations short of combat, like humanitarian aid and disaster relief missions.
"Andrew was a magnet for hatred, and he used Twitter for a full frontal assault, a tool of combat".
Not only would counterleaking resolve the present commotion, it would also deter future leakers from trying to turn reporters into tools of political combat.
They are basic tools of the combat pilot's trade.
As part of a set of tools to combat illegal immigration, however, physical barriers could help.
*Combat deployed defined as having at least one deployment in support of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan between submission dates of baseline and first follow-up questionnaires and report of at least one combat-like exposure on follow-up questionnaire.
Without a comprehensive set of tools to combat these problems, the inequities will persist and, in some circumstances, worsen".
