blunt instrument

I sometimes think a blunt instrument would do some good for her.

He looked as though she'd hit him with a blunt instrument.

It was too light to use as a blunt instrument.

The doctor said it must have been a blunt instrument.

She'd had no idea how much damage two blunt instruments could do.

The law is a blunt instrument for fighting the international drug trade.

How does an attack with a blunt instrument sound for violence?

Usually the only way we'd have of keeping you off an away team is with a large, blunt instrument.

The victim was hit over the head with a blunt instrument of some kind.

Not long ago the military was the blunt instrument of apartheid.

The police said he had been beaten with a blunt instrument.

He died early 1983 after being attacked with a blunt instrument.

They have been cut off with a blunt instrument, which would hardly happen if a student had done it.

Michael had been shot and struck with a blunt instrument to the right side of the head.

"It's a rather blunt instrument to deal with a complex problem," he said.

All means prove but a blunt instrument, if they have not behind them a living spirit.

"Another is the interventions are blunt instruments that need to be used with care."

He had been hit with some blunt instrument on the back of the head."

Her death was caused by being struck several times over the head with a blunt instrument.

But first, the official said, "we would like to try a somewhat less blunt instrument."

They just use money, instead of a blunt instrument, to deliver the blow.

Therefore, the time is fast arriving for Congress to use blunt instruments.

In general, many lawmakers say the tools available to Congress on the war are very blunt instruments.

We are not proposing the blunt instrument of economic sanctions.

A priest is a blunt instrument used for quickly killing fish.