Sentence examples for usual tools from inspiring English sources

Besides all the usual tools of battle, they have one more: language.

Courts, he added, will be without the usual tools to prove identity, like handwriting comparisons.

Drivers navigate the snarls without the usual tools of human communication, such as eye contact or conversation.

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.

Though the Japanese government tried to stimulate the economy using the usual tools -- deficit spending, interest rate cuts -- it was never enough.

Once a person was directed to a pornographic Web site, Mr. Comey said, "the usual tools that we use to close a Web site would not work".

Even more, he distrusts the usual tool of social engineers: the state, whose authority constitutes "the enemy of self-sovereignty".

But short-term interest rates — the usual tool of monetary policy — were near zero and could go no lower.

Regulation is government's usual tool for blunting adverse consequences, but most sharing platforms gain their competitive edge by skirting its requirements.

Weak demand and excess savings were making it impossible to stimulate growth with the usual tool of low short-term interest rates, he argued.

The strategy is unconventional, but the Fed's usual tool to stimulate the economy, lowering short-term rates, is no longer available because the Fed already lowered those rates to nearly zero in December 2008.