Rice regularly published reports from evangelistic campaigns that became valuable publicity tools for approved revivalists.

Do I think that Feinstein used the movie as a publicity tool to get a conversation going about her report?

"I don't see what happened as a publicity tool for my books," Mr. Rushdie said.

Some artists have used censorship as a publicity tool.

These are usually coordinated with manufacturers as a publicity tool, though the cars themselves are normally special versions unavailable from other sources and produced in limited numbers.

From then on, the company had used it as a publicity tool.

He is admittedly a symbolic figure, a mascot of sorts, a publicity tool.

The M-10000 was as much a publicity tool as a practical train.

And, he adds, reports and accounts are a useful publicity tool.

He invented a solid-body electric upright "bull-fiddle" in 1935 but it mainly served as a publicity tool.