Translation of "Machtinstrument" in English

This is an instrument of power.

This station is now the ultimate power in the universe.

Radio became an instrument of power.

Violence is an instrument of power to maintain and safeguard dominance.

Anxiety used as a tool of power helps control emerge in all kinds of systems.

In the southern hemisphere, globalisation is perceived as an instrument of power and a threat.

Knowledge is accessible everywhere and is no longer an instrument of power.

Only four voices said that the blog might be abused for power play.

However, the canon is not just an instrument of institutional power.

It must be ensured that the armed forces will never be used as an instrument of domestic political force.

Parliament can breach such an agreement at any time, and thus has an important means of power at its disposal.

Voting in favour, following a series of pleas, is not such a powerful weapon.

Get over it controls, and the ability to use as another native weapons and instrument of power.

Water is food for humans and animals, ensures growth in agriculture, and is, not too rarely, an instrument of power.

It is essentially an instrument of power through which a particular class maintains its class rule.

How can you ensure that the police force is not misused as an instrument of power by the ruling elite?

During the 1989/90 revolution, the East Germans took the SED’s most important instrument of power into their own hands.

Although the governments of the Member States nominate the President and Members of the European Commission, the Treaties wisely put a counterweight to power, the motion of censure, in Parliament's hands.

The temporary Committee of Inquiry has exercised its powers as it did into BSE as an important new power of Parliament.

As a consequence, this means of power will be taken away.

This is an issue that should be of fundamental concern to the European Union and the donor countries: whether in certain countries like Mozambique international aid is being used as an instrument of power to legitimise a government at the edges of democracy, and is thus helping to destroy a very shaky peace.

Voting against is Parliament' s only means of exercising power in order to bring about change and to challenge the Council' s and the Commission' s arrogance.

The fact is no government in the world, with the exception of a few, like that of Idi Amin, can seek to depend entirely on force as an instrument of rule.

With Russia’s economy faltering, Putin is finding it increasingly difficult to employ the second tool of power: payment.

In an increasingly water-stressed world, shared water resources are becoming an instrument of power, fostering competition within and between countries.

In 1907, in the wake of an epochal financial crisis that almost brought a complete global collapse, several countries started to think of finance primarily as an instrument of raw power that could and should be turned to national advantage.

By establishing fake opposition political parties that are under the Kremlin’s thumb, creating pseudo pressure groups and organizations such as Nashi (“Ours”), and recasting the rule of law as an instrument of political power, Putin has tightened his control in a more effective and subtle way than many autocratic regimes.