Sentences with phrase «sledgehammer cracks any nut»
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«This bad news should not be used cynically to justify the creation of an ID card sledgehammer to crack the passport fraud nut.»
McDonagh's bill is certainly a sledgehammer, but the problem she is trying to crack is more than a nut.
The proof of that came this morning with the announcement that Labour's Sarah's Law is to be extended nationwide — a law under which in the trial period 90 % of those reported upon by an assortment of nosy neighbours, local gossips, and the paranoid, were found to be guilty of nothing — perhaps one of the most sledgehammer to crack a nut and most intrusive of all of Labours laws.
Indeed, every time the tabloid press kicked up a fuss about something or other, Labour would introduce a new draconian sledgehammer to crack a nut type law in order to be seen to be doing something about it.
ID cards are a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
«This was always going to be a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
But as with people, this is much like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
I used to live on a property with many black walnut trees but we didn't bother eating the nuts because the shells are much harder than English walnuts and you have to use a sledgehammer to crack them, which of course then smashes your nut.
«Using Ofsted to resolve parental complaints is a sledgehammer to crack a nut in all but the most exceptional cases.