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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.

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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.

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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