But most still reckon that it is at best a blunt instrument for fighting poverty.
And economic sanctions are themselves a blunt instrument that sometimes harm the people more than the rulers. Stopping oil supplies may have just that effect.
這個國家有時候需要一把重錘this country sometimes needs a blunt instrument.同樣的，有時候她也需要一隻*首Equally,it sometimes needs a dagger.一把手術*，可以精確切割a scalpel wielded with precision且毫不留情and without remorse
The police said he had been hit with a blunt instrument.
Zoning is a blunt instrument that can at best shape but should not try to sculpt cities(de Shostal)
患難可以試驗一個人的品格，非常的境遇方纔可以顯出非常的氣節；風平浪靜的海面，所有的船隻都能並驅競勝；命運的鐵拳擊中要害的時候，只有大勇大智的人才能夠處之泰然。Adversity can test a person's character, you can just show the situation very very integrity; calm sea, all the ships can and flooding Winner; Tekken fate blunt instrument when only Dayong Dazhi talent could take it easy.
It is a very blunt instrument to use as device to extract economic rents from the exploitation of a resource.
Professor Marianne Elvander, the institute's head of disease control and epidemiology, told the BBC News website that they appeared to have been hit by some kind of blunt instrument.
And economic sanctions are themselves a blunt instrument that sometimes harm the people more than the rulers.
Using tax policy is a very blunt instrument.
It is also true that these indicators are blunt instruments for describing often subtle attitudes.
CHEMOTHERAPY, used to treat cancer since the1940 s, is a blunt instrument.
But though quarantines were frequently effective in protecting the public from the spread of illness, they can be a blunt instrument, and have often been abused or misapplied.
An entire toolbox is available to express information to users, but designers and programmers have stuck to using the same blunt instrument—the dialog—to communicate information.
