You write quite a lot about your relationship with your mother and how she was instrumental in your success.
Goebbels was also instrumental in the initial success Strauss had under the Nazis.
The instrumental view of culture has it wrong, she argues, and should be replaced with what she calls an “expressive view.”
And in 1939, the MOMA building opened that he was instrumental in designing and building.
“It sounds like the kind of decision that a candidate and a campaign would be instrumental in shaping,” she said.
The trade with England depends on the peace which we have been instrumental in preserving.
But whether or not any of these leaders was instrumental in his awakening is now unknown.
After this, hypnosis can be instrumental in achieving the final goal.
They hate me now because I have been instrumental in thwarting them.
If she were innocent, then she must be in trouble, and he hoped to be instrumental in relieving her.
late 14c., "of the nature of an instrument," from Old French instrumental, from Medieval Latin instrumentalis, from Latin instrumentum (see instrument). Meaning "serviceable, useful" is from c.1600. Of music, c.1500; noun meaning "musical composition for instruments only" is attested by 1940. Related: Instrumentally; instrumentality.
