Hostage-taking became a tool to impose both fear and influence.
Effectively, said Gadeir Abbas, attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relathens, the watchlists "provide law enforcement with an extra-judicial tool to impose consequences on predominantly Muslims who choose to exercise their rights instead of becoming informants".
As for Albsuinda, the Byzantine diplomacy probably aimed to use her as a political tool to impose a pro-Byzantine king on the Lombards.
Rather than use the filibuster as an occasional tactic to try to block the most controversial of legislation (itself problematic for democracy, e.g., decades of Southern filibusters of civil rights), they are using it as a daily tool to impose a de facto super-majority.
The framework is also not designed as a prescriptive tool to "impose" strategies and "assign" roles.
Conservative activists view that entire mode of judicial thinking as bankrupt and little more than a tool for judges to impose their own personal preferences as law.
The agency has also been making far less use of its own administrative tools, like its power to impose negligence penalties to go after corporate wrongdoers.
"I think I'll use the 8s," Ms. Burstyn's character says as she selects the tool she will employ to impose an unwanted medical intrusion on poor Susan.
Many French Muslim women approved of the burqa ban, on the grounds that the covering has no tradition in the northern African countries with historic ties to France, and had become a political statement, if not a tool, of those trying to impose hardline Islam.In reality, very few women are thought to wear the burqa in France.
