Does it make sense not to use every weapon at hand?

Monday's performance was a stirring success because he himself knows just how to shape this music using the forces at hand.

But he had always trusted to his luck and used the material at hand.

But he had to use the tools at hand.

If one wishes to get something done he has to use the tools at hand.

State governments still fail to use laws already at hand.

What he expected was that he would use the tools at hand.

Forces that were indeed ready to use the weapons at hand.

They used the materials at hand to create the buildings and facilities of the park.

The cane that I was forced to use now close at hand on the bench.