"It's a tool of some sort, but it's beyond my clear understanding, " a Rand spokesman admitted.
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Yet a closer look reveals Sun Tzu's flaws as a tool of soft power.
Often aid has been used as a tool of diplomacy, or to boost British exports.
His pen, as much as his ax or his musket, becomes a tool of survival.
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Sadly, Congress likely won't override the FASB for fear of being painted as a tool of scandal-ridden corporations.
Kenney has not only embraced immigrant communities, he has championed immigration policy as a tool of Canadian economic development.
But it wasn't until math met merchant in the free West that it became a tool of social advancement.
But even on purely economic grounds, death taxes are spectacular failures as revenue raisers or a tool of income redistribution.
Clay Shaw is trying to fend off Democratic state legislator Ron Klein by painting him as a tool of special interests.
Still other families turn to it as a tool of last resort to entertain and appease children on plane and car trips.
Reputation would be everything for an evaluation agency: if seen as a tool of industry no one would believe its assessments.
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Interestingly enough, the common desktop reference guide "The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy" best sums up the Bible's value as a tool of cultural literacy.
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He has denied the charge, but refuses to stand trial because Sudan does not recognise the ICC, saying it is a tool of Western powers.
Graffiti is no longer just a tool of underground resistance.
But most Germans still feel that conscription is the key to getting people to accept the armed forces and welcome it as a tool of social integration.
The Spanish conquistadors declared coca a tool of the devil, until they saw how it improved the work rate of the Indians they sent down the mines.
Believe it or not, the U.S. Army used to contain a special unit that was devoted exclusively to the use of psychic power as a tool of war.
Challenge inspection is a tool of limited utility...for a number of reasons: First of all, if we cannot detect the violation in the first place, the challenge inspection provision is irrelevant.
With unemployment at a 30-year low, falling union membership and an ageing domestic workforce, the Rudd government can afford to be bold about using immigration as a tool of economic management.
His supernatural bursts of light as a tool of revelation not only inspired generations of later painters, but in the 20th century have an indelible mark on cinema, from Italian neo-realism to today.
" The report added that, based on interviews of current and former SEC staff, the inspector general is "not well respected" and perceived as "a tool of management, used for retaliatory investigations against disfavored staff.
Mr. Gingrich developed the course as a subset of and a tool of a larger political and cultural movement which was also known as renewing American civilso a concentration on three areas of public policy.
Dixon has harnessed a process known as mineral accretion a tool of bioengineering to subject the chairs to low-voltage charges of solar power that encourage the growth of limestone at something close to three times the usual rate.
The argument about the utility of standardised tests is an old one, though the territory has shifted: where the political left once extolled them as a tool of social mobility, it now suspects them of bias.
What the three men have in common is not a predilection to being doves but a belief that force should be employed only when absolutely essential and that war must be a tool of last resort.
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