Threading the Fiscal Needle

He was afraid of the needle.

Access to needle and syringe programmes

Sami didn't know what Layla's needle contained.

Sami pulled a needle out of his pocket.

I told him, bear with me on the needle.

The needle method has the advantage that the needle can be placed at the bottom of the flask to better flush out the atmosphere of the flask.

It is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

A magnetic needle is placed parallel with the copper strip.

It's got a needle, like a record needle, that goes back and forth over the surface, bumps up and down, and feels the height of the first surface.

Because your choice now is either I use my own needle now, or I could share a needle now and get a disease that's going to possibly kill me 10 years from now, or I could use my own needle now and go to jail tomorrow.

But legislation is a blunt instrument for dealing with history.

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

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

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.

When a sample of tissue or fluid is removed with a needle in such a way that cells are removed without preserving the histological architecture of the tissue cells, the procedure is called a needle aspiration biopsy.

The true explanation was reserved for Faraday, namely, that electric currents are induced in the copper disc by the cutting of the magnetic lines of force of the needle, which currents in turn react on the needle.

Shen Kuo pointed out that a needle prepared this way sometimes pointed south, sometimes north.

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

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

Construction of a magnetic compass Magnetic needle A magnetic rod is required when constructing a compass.

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

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

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

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.

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

But you get too many stitches on the needle. So she quickly realized crochet was the better thing.

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.

And he said, That's ridiculous. You can't make a needle by rubbing a lump of iron with a cloth.

Bleeding from mucous membranes or from sites of needle punctures has been reported in 40 50 percent of cases.

The typical Chinese navigational compass was in the form of a magnetic needle floating in a bowl of water.

Vibration of the diaphragm caused a needle to vibrate in the water, varying the electrical resistance in the circuit.

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.

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.

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

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

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.