But those implements were more than mere tools: They were also potential weapons.

But they are mere tools and do not yet stand in the direct path of our proposed actions.

It made less of him: a mere tool, ignorant or knowing, but always complicit.

But he was a mere tool in the pay of the others, and had no chance to gain valuable information.

It seems out of the question to use them as mere tools, mere objects.

More than mere tools, axes were symbols of prestige and used as currency.

For Bayruth, despite the power that he exerted, was a mere tool in the game.

The Shadow was sure that the men who followed him were mere tools in the employ of a master murderer.

Nor should war crimes prosecutions be treated as a mere political tool.

And, as for Selina, she was little less than a mere tool in the hands of her well-beloved friend.