Sentences with phrase «blunt tool when»

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As I observed last year in Letters, «Policy is a blunt tool that works best when making people do things is enough... Policy is far less effective when it comes to complex endeavors where how things are done matters more than whether they're done.

Policy is a blunt tool, one that works best when simply making people do things is enough.

Dishonesty is «a blunt and inflexible tool» when judging a solicitor's behaviour and should not form the central question for a tribunal, a regulation specialist writes in this week's NLJ.

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