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instrumentalizing

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  • verb Present participle of instrumentalize.

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Examples

  • This "instrumentalizing" of all goods is part of the "limitlessness" which characterizes the capitalist mind and liberal economic ideology.

    Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism: Part I 2007

  • Also, in the second story, the girl is sent on an errand, making the mother doubly responsible to start with, "instrumentalizing" the child ...

    rabble.ca - News for the rest of us 2009

  • It relieves us of the question about instrumentalizing women's wombs, for an artificial womb is precisely an instrument to bring a baby to term.

    The difficult issue of embryonic adoption 2008

  • She plays the gender card now she is falsely instrumentalizing the death of Edward Kennedy .....

    Clinton: Democratic nomination process needs to change 2008

  • But in the Integral Yoga, the process and even the eventuality of growing into a divine consciousness includes the instrumentalizing of the shakti and this in turn includes external action.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • But in the Integral Yoga, the process and even the eventuality of growing into a divine consciousness includes the instrumentalizing of the shakti and this in turn includes external action.

    Debashish Banerji's Manichaean branding is suspect Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Aren't you instrumentalizing democracy against the state of Israel?

    'What Do You Want The Palestinians To Do?' 2008

  • Scott's piece helps us to remember the evil of it and Adminejad's approach to me warns us of the danger of instrumentalizing evil.

    Balkinization 2006

  • Casino Royale "takes considerable pains to suggest that this womanizing and shrewd, instrumentalizing persona is a rational response to - or escape from - his dehumanizing line of work," notes Brian Cook at In These Times, but: the film "may attempt a meaningful pursuit of what makes Bond tick, but in the end, it's all too willing to accept being a mere disposable pleasure."

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 12/29. 2006

  • George Bush is doing a very, very bad service to democracy by instrumentalizing it.

    'What Do You Want The Palestinians To Do?' 2008

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