Wheels, instrument panels and front-end modules are delivered in the same manner, but they don't arrive on trucks.

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In this way she rescued abstract painting, making it once again an instrument of meaningful expression rather than an end in itself.

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In Phyfe's lyre-back chairs, the lyre features a key-ended tuning pin on the right side and a peg-shaped end on the left, suggesting an authentic musical instrument rather than a mere design motif.

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But at the end of the day, it's a financial instrument that banks thought had a lot of value, and we've learned over the last year that they don't have that much value.

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Nobody on the committee thinks that QE has reached the end of the road and that it is not a useful instrument anymore.

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