Families appeared to be somewhat of a double edged sword.
This can however be viewed as "a double edged sword".
Whilst the injection of wet HNx as a method of suppressing the formation of zinc vapour is a long standing process for automotive Full Finish production, due to the nature of these oxide-based defects, this process is in fact a "double edged sword" in that it solves one problem but can create another.
In addition, the improved performance of the Zimbabwean economy, in comparison to the period prior to the formation of the coalition government in 2008, has been a double edged sword for the MDC.
Well for both sides in the battle over the future Scotland, the fact that two of the UK's biggest banks, Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds, have their registered offices or legal domiciles in Scotland has been a double edged sword.
From a theoretical point of view, insertion of an insulator or an enhancer blocker at a random site in the genome is a double edged sword since on one hand it should minimize activation of flanking genes by enhancers present in the transgene, but on the other hand, it might perturb expression of the flanking genes by interrupting communication between endogenous regulatory sequences.
"The boom in cable modem shipments is a double edged sword for many modem manufacturers as the number of standards certified suppliers (now ten and counting) rise".
Police face "a double edged sword" in dealing with the mass of information after such a public crime, said Peter Kirkham, former detective chief inspector with the Metropolitan police.
Using hashtags in this way can also be a double edged sword.
Taken together Tip-DCs might resemble a double edged sword in the course of an infection with L. monocytogenes in that they provide the benefits of iNOS and TNF as well the adverse effects of type I IFN expression.
In SCI the immune response is a double edged sword [ 4- 7], particularly the M1 and M2 types of macrophage [ 8].
