Sentence examples for were tools of from inspiring English sources

These were tools of espionage, Russian authorities said, claiming Kohver was arrested on the Russian side of the border.

In the early 1990's, the police in Bosnia were tools of terror, manipulated by the Bosnian, Serb and Croat war machines.

When I wrote in the Times Magazine about the critics of recycling, I was bombarded with accusations that the recycling skeptics were tools of industry.

Some have said that constitutionalism and similar ideas were tools of Western subversion that helped topple the former Soviet Union — and that a similar threat faces China.

Abdelatif Redjil, 56, who said rope, gloves and fake keys found in his car were tools of his construction trade, was sentenced to seven years.

The system's roots date back to the early days of the Communist Party, when propaganda films were tools of mass campaign and set the moral tone.

Mangoes have even been tools of diplomacy.

At other times, the messages are tools of sectarian aggression.

EUROPE'S railways have long been tools of the state.

But they are tools of the same country, of which I am now a citizen.

Knives are tools of creation as well as of destruction, and Mamet likes to whittle.