But legislation is a blunt instrument for dealing with history.

First, tighter sanctions make sense only as a diplomatic tool, not as a blunt instrument of coercion.

Oil embargos turned out to be a blunt instrument that hurt many besides the targeted countries.

Quantitative easing is a blunt instrument, at best, and operates through highly circuitous and thus dubious channels.

He rightly believed that reducing the money supply would have been too blunt an instrument to use.

Patient capital is uncomfortable for people searching for simple solutions, easy categories, because we don't see profit as a blunt instrument.

The ECB will object, not without reason, that monetary policy is a blunt instrument with which to rebalance the European economy.

Whatever one thinks of laws against spreading hatred or insulting people, the law remains a blunt instrument when it came to matters of speech.

Unlike such tools, interest rate policy is a blunt instrument for dealing with financial imbalances. And using interest rates to address such concerns may interfere with the central bank s primary objective of keeping inflation near target.

We can now see the utility of a more flexible toolkit to respond to excessive credit expansion, or asset price bubbles, where the manipulation of short term interest rates can be a blunt instrument or, worse, a double edged sword.

The ECB will object, not without reason, that monetary policy is a blunt instrument with which to rebalance the European economy. A cut in policy rates or quantitative easing by another name will do nothing to enhance the troubled southern European economies competitiveness.

If criminal prosecution is too blunt an instrument to use against violent video games, there is a case for awarding damages to the victims, or families of the victims, of violent crimes committed by people who play violent video games.

Why should I watch a movie full of weird costumes and blunt themes.

In a recent letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, she wrote, We believe this approach could be a blunt and imprecise instrument of fear, rather than one of persuasion, that will take us down a dangerous path and adversely impact US manufacturers, farmers, and consumers.

Put differently, real interest rates are too blunt a stimulus tool, even if they work.

To be blunt, the rule of law must be brought to disarmament.

Cuneiform texts were written on clay tablets, on which symbols were drawn with a blunt reed used as a stylus.

Andrew Carnegie, the richest man of Veblen s era, was blunt in his moral judgments.

Xi s criticism of the North s nuclear ambitions has become both unusually public and blunt.

Many a government minister, Bank officer and NGO representative has experienced his blunt criticism, as well as his effusive praise.

And yet, I do believe that in every social space, in every public space, there is a desire to communicate more than just that blunt thought, that blunt technique, but something that pinpoints, and can point in various directions forward, backward, sideways and around.

This high level of sexual crimes committed against our children remains a blunt reminder of the moral decay in our society.

Of course, some businesses do use blunt versions of time of day or seasonal pricing.

But even opponents of Olmert s second war must face the blunt fact that Hamas is lethal.

A person with a naïve but sincere desire to do good threatens that protective shell, and one way to blunt the threat is to sneer.

This could be a tip which is too blunt or the probe may have more than one peak, resulting in a doubled or ghost image.

But Chinese regulations are sometimes promulgated simply to blunt external criticism, and thus are seldom enforced, except when a case attracts international attention.

What is needed is to find a less belligerent, more liberal way to promote democracy, stressing international cooperation instead of blunt military force.

Turkey, to be blunt, will not recognize today s divided Cyprus as the sole representative of that island.

In Ukraine and Moldova, the Kremlin has worked hard, with some success, to blunt the appeal of Europe.

To be blunt, many of the world s largest economies are not fulfilling their financial pledges to the Fund.

Dominique Strauss Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, was uncharacteristically blunt for an international official.

Let me be still more blunt. State terrorism is being supported by those who claim to fight terrorism.

(a) The instrument is voluntary and non legally binding

Paragraph number two You may actually have to just get very blunt and say what's really on your mind.

So far, the regime has merely applied the same blunt measures that fueled Tibetans grievances in the first place.

Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

(k) A legally binding instrument such as a stand alone convention.

Each remote sensing instrument collects data about the atmosphere from a remote location and, usually, stores the data where the instrument is located.

C. Survey instrument

GEF Instrument, para.

One study that directly compared a type instrument (the MBTI) to a trait instrument (the NEO PI) found that the trait measure was a better predictor of personality disorders.

Moreover, the EU is a majestic instrument for international reconciliation.

(iii) A regional instrument on disaster management and emergency response

In some cases the focus is on a single instrument.