Sentence examples for using a blunt instrument from inspiring English sources

"Hefce were using a blunt instrument and they are now agreeing to refine it.

He told Sky that the government was using "a blunt instrument" to take money from higher-rate taxpayers.

"It will be repeating a historic blunder and hurting itself in the bargain by using a blunt instrument of policy at a time when it needs Pakistan's help to defeat Al Qaeda and make an honorable retreat from Afghanistan," Ms. Lodhi said of the United States.

Using a blunt instrument, such as the handle of a knife, pound the cucumber's surface to soften it slightly and increase its ability to absorb the salt and dressing.

The probe-to-bone (PTB) test is routinely performed to detect, using a blunt instrument, palpable bone through the ulcer, indicating osteomyelitis (9).

Necrotizing fasciitis is defined by the followings; the presence of grayish necrotic fascia; a demonstrated lack of resistance of muscular fascia that was freely dissected using a blunt instrument along the normal adherent tissue planes; the presence of foul-smelling "dish-water" pus; and/or, extensive necrosis of the skin and subcutaneous tissues [ 3].

I can see what they were trying to accomplish here, but it's hard to use a blunt instrument skillfully.

In affirming its "right" to free speech, Charlie Hebdo has used a blunt instrument to smash apart a genuine moment of hope and togetherness.

In the second stabbing, an hour later, the Jackson police charged Sean McClean of Brooklyn, 18 years old, with aggravated assault after he used a blunt instrument to stab Stephan Blakney, also 18, in the back after a heated argument, officials said.

"We have no idea how much better we would interact with a smooth piece of glass unless we actually feel something on it". Modern haptic features are mostly limited to the buzz of notifications or 'taps' from a virtual keyboard, and use a blunt instrument – an actuator such as Apple's Taptic Engine – to vibrate the whole device.

One thing is clear, placing a student in a gateway college course using only a blunt instrument like a placement test needlessly impedes many students who already have the tools to succeed by putting them in remedial courses they do not need and that too often fail to improve student outcomes.