Since then, it had been slightly modified and was now a favored tool of the security team in situations just like this one.

The department is still evaluating technologies for foiling shoulder-fired missiles, a favored tool of rebel groups against military aircraft.

According to the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press, he singled out the United Nations as being a favored tool of "the infidel world."

Because of their small size and easy availability, Deringers sometimes had the dubious reputation of being a favored tool of assassins.

That is because short selling has become a favored tool of many arbitragers who play takeover situations.

So the tiny roundworm, already a laboratory workhorse that is central to studies of aging and other complex biological processes, may become a favored tool for nicotine research.

Yet history - Mr. Meyer's favored educational tool - has showed otherwise, though you would never know given today's imperial amnesia.

Hull, as usual, had four or five red pencils in his shirt pocket, his favored tools of state.

Violent repression has been a favored tool of the Guinean state for decades.

The leaking of secrets has long been a favored tool of policy debate, political combat and diplomatic one-upmanship.