cut both ways

They had seen death and knew that it could cut both ways.

Everyone around the table knew that such a letter could cut both ways.

But is it an edge that could cut both ways?

This one could cut both ways, as the magazine points out.

They also point out that the issue of security cuts both ways.

Let him know, even now, that it cut both ways.

The partisan difference among men and women cut both ways.

Whatever the link between them was, it cut both ways.

The technology slump, however, has cut both ways for the museum.

Of course, a video sales pitch could cut both ways.

In fact, the process of economic liberalization cuts both ways.

Some technologies cut both ways, depending on the time of day.

The big issue of today, the war on terror, could cut both ways, political analysts said.

Playing on an Olympic team with someone you have known since about age 10 cuts both ways.

And that, he said, can cut both ways for borrowers.

The real reason is that her testimony cuts both ways.

"Funny how the age thing cuts both ways for you."

But it seems to me that moral duties cut both ways.

Bound closer than we'd ever been, it cut both ways.

The ruling might cut both ways when the pact is taken up by Congress.

Last time I checked, discrimination law generally cut both ways.

But as the four economists point out, demographics can cut both ways.

I'm only saying that what you have told me cuts both ways."

Their style, he said, is a sword that cuts both ways.

And the very same factors may cut both ways.