The tax code was also used as an instrument of social policy.

The government has a number of possible policy instruments which it can use for this purpose.

Here too, however, different rules apply to those used for other foreign policy instruments.

We need to continue to look at our policy instruments in close cooperation with others.

He said Iran "will not use oil as a foreign policy instrument."

For the moment, though, one crucial instrument of economic policy is not in the Government's hands.

I believe that the common position is the best policy instrument we now have for Cuba.

Using force as a primary instrument of policy is unacceptable.

I believe that this is enormously significant as an instrument of economic policy.

That is because the truth, for him, seems to be less a moral imperative than an instrument of policy.