Sentence examples for tools of state from inspiring English sources

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.

In so doing, I reveal discrepancies between internal state positions and those publically conveyed, while showing how the categories of normal and abnormal are malleable social constructs and geopolitical tools of state power.

In a 2011 posting, the Saudi judiciary was called "one of the tools of state-sponsored terrorism".

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.

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

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

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