They think the American people will believe their use of the debt ceiling as a cudgel was principled and perhaps even courageous.
For years it has used the Wright amendment as a cudgel to prevent competitors from moving in on its Dallas-Fort Worth gold mine.
For years it has used the 1979 law as a cudgel to prevent competitors from moving in on its Dallas-Fort Worth gold mine.
In a preliminary report on the antitrust trial against the software giant, Jackson determined that Microsoft used the dominance of its Windows operating system as a cudgel against competitors, stifling innovation and limiting consumer choice.
The federal statute also provided for stiffer sentences than wire fraud he said, providing a heavy cudgel in plea-bargain negotiations.
On the I-nternet, "openness" may be nothing more than a verbal cudgel wielded by the public relations groups in big corporations.
After the Rasul decision, the PR momentum picked up speed and the Supreme Court became, in Mr. Levick's words, their "main weapon, " a "cudgel" that forced more attention in what he calls the traditional "liberal" press.
Second, he painted Dukakis -- whom he (accurately) called "a card-carrying member of the ACLU" -- as soft on crime, using as his cudgel Dukakis' support for a prisoner-furlough program.
Spitzer resigned his Governorship in disgrace, but none of the heads of the big banks, who defrauded the public of billions, has so much as set foot in a courtroom, and no one has taken up the cudgel since Spitzer dropped it.
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The budget cuts, known in Washington DC as the sequester, were devised in 2011 as an intentionally painful cudgel to encourage Democrats and Republicans in Congress to strike a deal to reduce the US budget deficit.
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