Sentence examples for blunt effort from inspiring English sources

It was a blunt effort by Emmy producers to appeal to as wide a television audience as possible.

They also worried that a blunt effort to ban all abortion might cause a backlash that would set back their incremental chipping away at abortion rights.

What we don't support is cutting people's benefits on disability support in some brutal and blunt effort to force them back into inappropriate jobs.

Thousands of posters decorate the capital's gray blast walls, including one that shows a split face -- half Saddam Hussein, half Ayad Allawi -- in a blunt effort to smear Mr. Allawi, a former prime minister, and his secular coalition.

More recently baseej forces have ringed the homes of two other prominent dissident ayatollahs in a blunt effort to block them from becoming a focus for protest.Perhaps worse yet for Iran's government, its troubles at home have crippled its foreign policy, at a time when it faces rising pressure to curb its controversial nuclear programme.

Reaction to the document was mixed: Some police commissioners called it a blunt effort to get to the truth of what happened, but some civil rights groups criticized it for not delving deeper into the action of individual officers who used batons and less-than-lethal rounds on people.

Defense lawyers sought to blunt efforts to frame this as a civil rights case.

He successfully resisted blunt efforts by the press to make him formally declare his homosexuality.

That has helped blunt efforts by smaller carriers to win local phone customers with new services and lower prices.

The move is an attempt to blunt efforts to prod Congress and the states into approving significantly tougher anti-spam laws.

A battery of architects, engineers and cultural experts is being consulted to draw up plans and blunt efforts by rivals to control reconstruction.