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Examples of pinprick


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I will begin my attack on the thesis with a series of pinpricks, some fairly familiar doctrines in the law that seem inconsistent with it.
One neuron responded selectively to the anticipation and delivery of noxious mechanical stimulation (pinching, pinpricks), as well as to observation of the experimenter receiving pinpricks.
They are mere pinpricks because individually at least they will not seem to call for more than some minute refinements and qualifications of the thesis.
Simple palpation for pedal pulses and testing for pinprick sensation will accurately identify a foot at risk.
I will take those points one by one, and take first the pinpricks.
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They can never agree a basis for an attack on what we do, so they confine themselves to pinpricking us on how we do it.
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I concede that there are still pinpricks, so far as things like credit facilities are concerned.
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The subsidies that have been announced are mere pinpricks in the problem.
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I am talking of pinpricks which all too often draw blood.
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What is the good of pinpricking legislation of this kind, which brings about results of that character?
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There are too many pinpricks being directed at the trade unions.
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The time has gone by for pinpricking the motorist.
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We think once again, as we did last year, that the time has come when this rather pinpricking procedure might be abolished.
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Much more must be done, and done quickly, to remove the discriminatory pinpricks.
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Things that were previously acceptable as nuisances or pinpricks no longer are.
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I do not think there is any real defence to be advanced for these detailed pinpricks and restrictions.
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There are so many pinpricks which could so easily be eliminated if the regulations were interpreted with a little more human understanding and generosity.
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The big disputes can wait a little longer, but most of the unofficial pinpricks need to be settled speedily, on the spot.
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If the men continually have grievances and suffer from these pinpricks, of course it is psychological.
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One by one the various sanctions could be removed so that irritating pinpricks on industrial relations would not last for ever in the shipping industry.
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We have attempted with this order to relieve one of the pinpricks and administrative burdens.
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There are the large damaging influences and there are also the small pinpricks which can be equally destructive of the structure of our rural community.
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Sanctions, to me, seem to be merely a sort of international policy of pinpricks.
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I believe that the removal of the pinpricks today is no longer enough, and that is the tragedy.
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A man may find his life's work in the future, instead of being one of glory and pleasure, one of discomfort and pinpricks.
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What were the pinpricks which we could have avoided?
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We have not pursued a policy of pinpricks.
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I want to be assured that this provision will not mean more pinpricks for the junior hospital doctor.
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Many of them are passed over by saying that they are mere pinpricks or very simple injections.
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There have been some legislative acts which, in my view, do begin to remove some of these very irritating pinpricks.
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One is what might be called the removal of pinpricks, and a great deal has already been done in that way.
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I did not know quite whom he was blaming for the pinpricks.
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They date back to the time when a party that had a momentary ascendancy inflicted pinpricks on their opponents.
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They are subject to the policy of pinpricks, their temper is not of the best, and their whole life is one of worry.
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We ought to put up with the policy of pinpricks, even though it is most annoying.
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One hopes that in future small autocratic pinpricks will cease.
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Is it one of the last dying kicks and pinpricks to try to disorganise the industrial relationship set up in the country?
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I apologise for mentioning them, because they are small points in a debate of this character, bat they are pinpricks of a character which militate against success in units' minds.
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He is engaged in pinpricking protestations.
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Why not put in a specified period of so many weeks or months after the accident in order to avoid these anomalies and pinpricks in administration?
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Once that is admitted, it is surely right to have a liberal policy with the minimum of pinpricks, the minimum of things which will cause future resentment.
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The seeds have been used as beads in jewelry, which is dangerous; inhaled dust is toxic and pinpricks can be fatal.
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When there were only a relatively few sites it sufficed to locate them with pinpricks on aerial photos and reference them by stating the area.
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They confirm this from the ill old lady, noting how she has a mass of small pinpricks on her arm.
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The raids were military pinpricks but a significant propaganda victory.
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When conservators entered the pedestals, they could see hundreds of pinpricks of light and long cracks in the bronze.
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They have adopted threats and indulged in pinpricks, but to meet a pinprick with artillery is like cracking an egg with a steam-hammer.
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We can make some pinprick on this pattern through education.
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None of those improvements will be achieved through the measures, which represent a tiny pinprick in a package of reforms that is long overdue.
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We can all agree that we see it as the kind of pinprick that we should like to have the companies feel.
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You talk about pinpricks, but that is probably the worst pinprick of all.
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Members who represent industrial areas realise the great harm a pinprick like this causes.
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I am saying that this amendment is a sorry and petty pinprick.
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I believe that there is a small pinprick of light at the end of the tunnel where the executive is waiting.
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At present, it is only a pinprick.
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The effect of this tax is like a pinprick to the industrialists who are being asked to make special efforts to export their goods to the dollar market.
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Tighter administration, better controls and more vigilance would cure the trouble and certainly all that would be left would be a tiny pinprick compared with the damage done by separation.
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Patients often undergo a series of muscle strength tests, sensory exam which includes feeling the sensation of light touch, pinprick, vibration, and others.
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Initially a pinprick or burning sensation can be felt when bitten by widow spiders.
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The bite may be painful from the start, but more often only feels like a pinprick or mild burning sensation.
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Negative utilitarianism would seem to call for the destruction of the world even if only to avoid the pain of a pinprick.
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One author who has been stung indicates that, for him, the stings are not much more than a pinprick.
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Later, when he offered his hand, she drew away and refused to shake, in spite of the fact she could not explicitly recall the pinprick itself.
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