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Examples of sledgehammer


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I wish that the books on language were as easy to follow, but at the same time am relieved that they lack the pile-it-on sledgehammer polemic.
The current law can deal with an infringement or illegality without the whole of the rate being quashed under this sledgehammer of an amendment.
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We have felt the whirlwind and the sledgehammer impact of the recession.
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The sledgehammer hit our main export and growth sectors.
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Why bring a sledgehammer to crack a walnut?
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That would leave judicial review, which is an extraordinarily heavy sledgehammer, as the only really effective means of redress.
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He decided to use the legislative sledgehammer—option 5—whereas most reasonable people would have concluded that the evidence pointed to option 2 or 3.
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Taken together, those measures amount to a sledgehammer, which might be appropriate for a serious complaint.
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There is more danger that a sledgehammer will bring the house down than accomplish any good or complicated repairs.
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The occasional sledgehammer may not be enough to overcome what is a pervasive practice.
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The spectacle of representatives of the industry arriving at old ladies' doors with sledgehammers to break down the doors and remove electricity meters persists.
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It is no use facing them with a sledgehammer and confrontation.
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To use the full weight of company law in order to regulate small private companies is to use a sledgehammer to swat a fly.
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So we must take a sledgehammer to deal with it.
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It was a crude instrument—a sledgehammer of an instrument.
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It is a sledgehammer which has hurt innocent airlines.
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Once again, local government will have a sledgehammer taken to it.
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It is a sledgehammer which is unpopular with everybody.
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The justification for the sledgehammer of clause 52 is that building societies paid £15,000 million in taxation over four years.
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However, it is a problem that cannot be tackled by the sledgehammer.
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It really is time for sledgehammer methods to stop these people, whenever their premises are closed down, from opening up under some other guise.
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On the sledgehammer theory, has not the chief adjudicator said that the measure will cause no more than a negligible reduction in the backlog?
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The amendment takes a more sledgehammer approach and suggests that we should ban nominated insurer clauses outright.
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But because there is such justifiable anxiety it does not mean that it is right to use these sledgehammer tactics against the broadcasting organisations.
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It was a constitutional sledgehammer to make a delicate legislative adjustment.
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