Sentences with phrase «blunt tool of»

And Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said the «blunt tool of inspection» was not an effective way to drive improvement in careers guidance.

Russell is a great lead, but he is supported by frequently awkward performances that struggle with the blunt tool of the script and sometimes awful dialogue.

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But sitting down for an interview at the event, Waugh warned some of the blunt tools preferred by regulators would do more harm than good.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act has become a blunt tool that unscrupulous people use to demand the removal of material that's unflattering to them — including from our site, Retraction Watch.

«The Divine Right of Kings» is a hoax — nothing more than a tool of statecraft that has been blunted by democracy.

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The Church, it was believed, could afford to be more flexibly responsive to the nuances and contours of individual situations than the state, and the Church was believed to possess more finely grained tools of correction than the blunt instruments of law and punishment.

Still, boycott is a very blunt tool which inevitably hurts many innocent people in the process of hurting the targeted adversary.

First, it is interesting that in the fourth century, the road to Constantinople in 381 is not paved by blunt appeals to church authority but by extensive wrestling over biblical texts and fine - tooling of extra-biblical language (most notably the term «hypostasis») in an attempt to establish which exegetical claims made sense of Scripture as a whole and which fell short.

But while boycott is a legal and sometimes effective tool in situations where litigation and other recourses have been exhausted, it also is a very blunt tool which easily gets out of control and can hurt innocent people.

It may be the case that Egypt's move towards democracy will eventually happen because they will be left with no other choice as the tools of violence become blunted, but this will not be because the establishment will simply have a change of heart.

But since 2012, national planning rules have blunted this tool by enabling the widespread use and abuse of viability assessments.

Michael Dardia, co-director of research at the Citizens Budget Commission, said the CBC is sympathetic to restraining spending — but the tax cap was a blunt tool.

The gut is a lot harder to access, which is why much of it remains a crudely delineated terrain that can only be examined with blunt and invasive tools.

Each volunteer was struck 18 times at different impact energies, with the robot arm fitted with one of two tools — one blunt and round, and one sharper.

CGIAR scientists wielding big data tools to blunt the impacts of climate change on Latin America's rice production have been named one of two winners of the Big Data Climate Challenge at the recent United Nations Climate Summit held in New York City, U.S.A.

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They are a blunt tool, and they do not protect against all forms of identity theft, but they can prevent criminals from using hijacked identities to open new accounts.

I'm not a huge fan of P / E ratios myself — at best, it's a rather blunt valuation tool, and at worst, it can be downright dangerous.

In practice these are fairly blunt tools that tell me «1 cent a point for American miles is a really good deal» but that I'm not going to spend 2 cents unless there's a very specific scenario — like a few points at the margin to top off an account for an award I've put on hold — where it makes sense (and in that scenario, my valuation of each point is higher since they're helping me to save with a real redemption).

The changing hand of the artist's tools create a topographic language; there are smooth planes, scraped build up and a blunt, carved line that meanders throughout the surface.

Posts contain blunt advice for lawyers who want to improve their professional reputations and bring in clients through their firm's website, blogging and other social media tools — and they also detail the nuts and bolts of the work involved in stepping things up online.

Law is usually a more effective tool when used as a precision instrument rather than a tool of blunt force.

The audio passthrough mode is also a very blunt tool: it's just on or off, there's no way to adjust the amount of audio coming in through the earbuds via the microphones.

But trying to do so with your worn - down spirit and kit of blunt leadership tools is a bit like fueling a rocket ship with tepid bath water, says Mohan Nair.