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- verb Present participle of
instrumentalize .
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Examples
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This "instrumentalizing" of all goods is part of the "limitlessness" which characterizes the capitalist mind and liberal economic ideology.
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Also, in the second story, the girl is sent on an errand, making the mother doubly responsible to start with, "instrumentalizing" the child ...
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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.
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She plays the gender card now she is falsely instrumentalizing the death of Edward Kennedy .....
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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
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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
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Aren't you instrumentalizing democracy against the state of Israel?
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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
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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."
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George Bush is doing a very, very bad service to democracy by instrumentalizing it.
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