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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
instrumentalize .
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Examples
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There are disturbing trends being instrumentalized all around, Muslims praying in the streets of Paris, North Africans being discriminated against in Spain.
Bishop Pierre Whalon: Jaw-Jaw Or War-War? Bishop Pierre Whalon 2011
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There are disturbing trends being instrumentalized all around, Muslims praying in the streets of Paris, North Africans being discriminated against in Spain.
Bishop Pierre Whalon: Jaw-Jaw Or War-War? Bishop Pierre Whalon 2011
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Well since I lost a high school classmate in the World Trade Center towers, I am not going to let his loss be instrumentalized to countenance American torture.
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Various international observers such as Freedom House and Transparency International have deplored the judicial corruption in the country, which has instrumentalized the courts both a political weapon as well as a tool of private interests (see the ABA Rule of Law Index report on Kazakhtan for all the lurid stories).
Robert Amsterdam: Political Trials and Crimes Against Reality 2010
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Various international observers such as Freedom House and Transparency International have deplored the judicial corruption in the country, which has instrumentalized the courts both a political weapon as well as a tool of private interests (see the ABA Rule of Law Index report on Kazakhtan for all the lurid stories).
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Well since I lost a high school classmate in the World Trade Center towers, I am not going to let his loss be instrumentalized to countenance American torture.
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The arts and culture should never be instrumentalized as propaganda tools but there is a clear danger that this will be the case.
hatto fischer | politics and the arts « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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Various international observers such as Freedom House and Transparency International have deplored the judicial corruption in the country, which has instrumentalized the courts both a political weapon as well as a tool of private interests (see the ABA Rule of Law Index report on Kazakhtan for all the lurid stories).
Robert Amsterdam: Political Trials and Crimes Against Reality 2009
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This entire polemic regarding the statements of Bishop Williamson concerns the existence of gas chambers, and has been strongly instrumentalized for anti-Vatican purposes.
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And it has callously instrumentalized civilians, including children, as human shields.
'Eyeless in Gaza': An Exchange Harris, David A. 2009
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