speartip

With anti-poverty efforts as the speartip of the approach, those things that we cannot impose well through an occupation presence or militarily, will begin to form.

Firedoglake » Green Zone Talk 2006

The knight withdrew the speartip with a deft pull and stabbed forward again, taking the creature in the throat.

The Dragons of Krynn Weis, Margaret 1994

“Why should I make peace with Hector when I can have his guts on my speartip in mere hours?”

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

The Court has long been rumored to be closing and was at the speartip of the city's redevelopment plans in 2001, which it averted, when 400 or so members of the city's music community, including nationally known songwriter Glen Burtnik and Tony Shanahan of the Patti Smith band, showed up at a city council meeting to lend their support to the venue.

unknown title 2009

Described as "the coordination point where these resources could be used for a crisis or consequence outside of the NSSE," the MACC was the organizational hub and speartip where federal, state, local law enforcement and "private institutions" interacted "at any time during the event to utilize the event's public safety resources to assure that the normal delivery of public safety responses from their agency were uninterrupted."

Dandelion Salad 2008