The case indicating the instrument used in performing the action of the verb

Usage examples of instrumental.

At his lodgings two days later, Adams sat quietly writing to Abigail: When I consider the great events which are passed, and those greater which are rapidly advancing, and that I may have been instrumental of touching some springs, and turning some wheels, which have had and will have such effects, I feel an awe upon my mind which is not easily described.

And the business of rigidly centralized planning of research prevented the inspired laboratory anarchy which has been so instrumental in the rapid development of biochemically based research in the last decades.

Twenty years later, Devi could control the necessary instrumental forces from two keyboards.

This certainly impairs the executive authority and directs the Court to be instrumental to that end.

And Dulan de Laal was instrumental in keeping the country together when Grandfather died.

Before discussing the function of this case, we will fill in some more details about the instrumental forms as such.

For instrumental power lies in several instruments through which the chief agent acts.

He was instrumental in publishing the name and greatness of the Israelitish prophets and he proved to the world that the Israelites constituted the people of God.

It helped that Dick Leyton told them that Pell had been instrumental in getting them this close to Mr.

Garabed was not actually the first to detect impulses from the Longline, he was certainly the first to believe that those impulses constituted genuine, objective data rather than instrumental artifacts.

But when we have the songs, the five or six hundred of them, the operas and other vocal works, in which music is so lovely in and of itself, yet at the same time so descriptive, so loyal to the changing moods of the text, we necessarily interpret the instrumental music in the same light, especially when we know that there are no distinct periods in the short life of this composer concerning which different principles can be predicated.

Taylor points out, substantive and dialectical and dialogical, not merely instrumental and procedural and monological.

But if we hold that a sacrament is an instrumental cause of grace, we must needs allow that there is in the sacraments a certain instrumental power of bringing about the sacramental effects.

It is not generally known that it is the Anarchists who are mainly instrumental in insuring the success, moral as well as financial, of most of the radical undertakings.

This man, John Allison Anderton, was instrumental in the original creation of the Precrime system, the prophylactic pre-detection of criminals through the ingenious use of mutant precogs, capable of previewing future events and transferring orally that data to analytical machinery.