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  • The argument also reflects a broader discontent with Sarkozy and his often blunt-edged tactics among union activists and their sympathizers.

    France in turmoil as nationwide strike over pension reform stretches on Edward Cody 2010

  • Around the park where old men wave their wooden swords in unison, blunt-edged glory boiling in their veins.

    To The Trees Nicolette Wong 2011

  • The argument also reflects a broader discontent with Sarkozy and his often blunt-edged tactics among union activists and their sympathizers.

    France in turmoil as nationwide strike over pension reform stretches on Edward Cody 2010

  • That al-Qaeda attacks Western targets and visits outrages upon innocent civilians does not mean it is not also a blunt-edged weapon selectively deployed by imperialism to stoke ethnic and religious tensions in areas deemed vital to US geostrategic interests.

    interesting claims 2008

  • That al-Qaeda attacks Western targets and visits outrages upon innocent civilians does not mean it is not also a blunt-edged weapon selectively deployed by imperialism to stoke ethnic and religious tensions in areas deemed vital to US geostrategic interests.

    03 « September « 2008 « Niqnaq 2008

  • Republicans have already shown they want to use whatever action Obama takes as a blunt-edged political weapon to continue their campaign to delegitimize his presidency.

    Howie Klein: How Obama Plans to Keep Funding a Senseless Afghanistan War 2009

  • In her outrage, McCarthy dared to compare the seeming indifference of many of her fellow citizens to the blunt-edged sword of technological destruction we had loosed on Vietnam to the moral obtuseness of ordinary Germans under Adolf Hitler.

    William J. Astore: Mary McCarthy in Vietnam, Barack Obama in Afghanistan 2009

  • But flying over the Pashtun wildlands is the blunt-edged face of predation and death, ready at a moment's notice to deliver hellfire to those below.

    Tom Engelhardt: The Imperial Unconscious 2009

  • To put it another way, Obama's key officials seem to be opting not for blunt-edged, Bush-style militarism, but for what might be thought of as an administrative push in Iraq, what Vice President Joe Biden has called "a much more aggressive program vis-à-vis the Iraqi government to push it to political reconciliation."

    Michael Schwartz: Colonizing Iraq: The Obama Doctrine? 2009

  • The platform bed held a bare mattress, and the only other features were a built-in desk and bench, and a stainless-steel blunt-edged shelf mounted to the wall.

    Mary, Mary Patterson, James, 1947- 2005

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