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How to use the word instrument in a Sentence?

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Beware the ease of blaming Chauvin alone. While he is a blunt instrument of police brutality and racism, he could never flourish in a police agency that lived up to its mission statement.

– Bob Bennett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These guys were ahead of their time, they knew Augusta National like the back of their hand and were able to direct a golfer without any type of instrument like today’s caddies (use).

– Leon Maben

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While the Paris Agreement is an essential part of the international legal framework for climate action, it is certainly not the only instrument … nor is it the most legally enforceable.

– Ralph Regenvanu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is important to see Ronaldo not just as a geopolitical instrument.

– Simon Chadwick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This amendment is inadequate, as it does not cover non-immigrant temporary visas, like students, who also pose security risks, the CCP views every citizen as an instrument to serve the party, and they encourage and apply leverage against many of their citizens working and studying abroad to continue that theft. Passing legislation that would massively increase the number of Chinese national visa holders is a bad idea at this time.

– Heritage Action

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Louis Cato has done a great job this summer, and Louis Cato is very humble, so he won't say this. But I will. He's a musical genius. He can play basically every instrument over there. Give him an afternoon, he'll learn how to play Mozart on a shoehorn.

– Stephen Colbert

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A bow has no conscience: it is a prolongation of the hand and desire of the archer. It can serve to kill or to meditate. Therefore, always be clear about your intentions. A bow is flexible, but it has its limits. Stretching it beyond its capacity will break it or exhaust the hand holding it. Therefore, try to be in harmony with your instrument and never ask more than it can give.

– Paulo Coelho

added by Normando
1 year ago

The consequences of turning an important, high-stakes tool for ensuring child welfare into a culture-war instrument are almost too awful to contemplate.

– Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

All the members of the Organization of American States, we all defend democracy. And if you want to be a member of the organization, you have to defend democracies. So I clearly believe that the Summit of the Americas shall not be an instrument of non-democratic regimes to participate in order to try to get diplomatic legitimacy. I think no dictatorship shall participate in the Summit of the Americas.

– President Duque

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Whether you're a lifelong musician or have never even played an instrument, music is an access key to your memory, your pre-frontal cortex.

– Michael Thaut

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Ember Days [highlight] the fact that the church itself has a vocation, and that is to be an instrument of God for the spread of his kingdom.

– Canon Victor Lee Austin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Because of the bravery of the Ukrainian people, President Biden was giving something you rarely get in geopolitics: a second chance. But if he signs this deal, if he signs this instrument of simultaneous surrender to Iran, Russia, and China, he will squander the second chance and America will suffer in the process, it’s like giving Putin the pistol to point at our heads to hold us hostage. It makes absolutely no sense and again, it undermines everything that President Biden promised with respect to Vladimir Putin.

– Mike Gallagher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We’re very, very close to the character and the identity of this instrument when we put the correct strings on, everything else being in very good condition.

– Paul McNulty

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I want to accept this for all the aspiring musicians, the one who desires to play an instrument, wants to rap, wants to sing — not just the rock artists, but all the artists.

– Machine Gun Kelly

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What we have done is miniaturized the radar instrument, we've taken it from a school bus-size instrument to something that's about the size of a mini fridge.

– Rei Goffer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Playing a musical instrument gives much pleasure, but more so to the musician.

– Louis Wong

added by Louiswong38
2 years ago

It will have permanent consequences on financial markets because we have this European-denominated debt to be repaid in the next 30 years, on the future -- if this instrument works and we are able to agree on the new own resources to repay this common debt, I think we can have a serious discussion on further initiatives.

– Paolo Gentiloni

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

It is amazing to see SuperCam working so well on Mars, when The SuperCam,arock-vaporizing first dreamed up this instrument eight years ago, The SuperCam,arock-vaporizing worried that The SuperCam,arock-vaporizing were being way too ambitious. Now it is up there working like a charm.

– Roger Wiens

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It would seem to be that these flights should have been operated under Instrument Flight Rules.

– Robert Sumwalt

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Regarding authorization for the export of vaccine supplies, I believe that we all know very well that this is a technical issue and not a political one, vaccines are a weapon to contain the pandemic and guarantee the health of the people and not a political instrument. China attaches great importance to cooperation in the development of the vaccine and we would like to consolidate cooperation.

– Yang Wanming

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Vaccines are a weapon to contain the pandemic and guarantee the health of the people and not a political instrument. China attaches great importance to cooperation in the development of the vaccine and we would like to consolidate cooperation.

– Yang Wanming

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Poetry is a weapon. It is an instrument of social change...and poetry is one of the most political arts out there because it demands that you rupture and destabilize the language in which you're working with. Inherently, you are pushing against the status quo. And so for me, it's always existed in that tradition of truth-telling.

– Amanda Gorman

added by Greying_Geezer
3 years ago

It is stunning all the science we can get with an instrument as simple as a microphone on Mars.

– Baptiste Chide

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You must know that this is a glimpse of God's vision of a more inclusive humanity that embraces all of God's children. I'm just grateful to be a part of this. I'm just grateful because I just want to serve, I just want to be a vessel, I just want to be an instrument, I just want to be a prism of God's glory so that God's glory can shine through me.

– Raphael Warnock

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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