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.

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.

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.

Then Jesus said to him, Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.

The king said, Get me a sword. They brought a sword before the king.

Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

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.

I want a sword!

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.

And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.

You have feared the sword and I will bring the sword on you, says the Lord Yahweh.

Ye have feared the sword and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD.

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.

Mary gave Tom the sword.

900 AD (see Japanese sword).

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.

GB Followed my sword will swallow.

He was killed with a sword.

I want a sword like this!

Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished

Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished

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.

The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become subject to forced labor.

be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.

Globalization is also a two edged sword.

For me, it s a double edged sword.

David said to his men, Every man put on his sword! Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David and two hundred stayed by the baggage.

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.