Sentence examples for were the instruments of from inspiring English sources

The viola da braccio and the viola da gamba were the instruments of ladies and gentlemen.

Arrayed on her work space were the instruments of her trade: sharp picks and iron files and pointy snippers.

Pens were the instruments of writing, and, as in earlier Aramaic documents, leather provided the surface.

In the 19th century, the railways shrank individual nations; in the early 20th century, ocean-going liners were the instruments of globalisation.

In the Soviet Union, for example, the early leaders (1917 22) imagined that law and lawyers were the instruments of the ruling classes and that law would soon wither away in classless communism (see Soviet law).

The total population of the study was 75 people consisting of 56 postgraduate students, 10 graduates, four heads of departments, four ESP instructors and one executive manager at MOH. Ethical and demographic forms as well as a comprehensive questionnaire and a form of semi-structured interview were the instruments of the study.

Our remarks fell on deaf ears; the streets were the instrument of change.

Screws are the "instrument-of-choice" for professionals these days.

Huge latex or chloroprene balloons are the instruments of choice.

Together, all together, they are the instruments of change".

Such are the instruments of the shaman of Sullivan Street.