Her style at the General Assembly was a model for John Bolton's, confrontational and blunt to a degree, and the present ambassador, as he resigned amid general hooting, candidly acknowledged his debt to her.
Those generous welfare states that preserve people's incomes tend to blunt incentives to take new work.
This week, despite the prospect of strong corporate earnings, the indexes remain trapped in a trading range, partially due to investor concerns that pending government actions are going to take a blunt axe to global economic growth.
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This is likely to blunt Tory attempts to raise fears about devolution.
When they arrived, they found Touch Chea, 71, and his wife, Sorn Sreap, 73, dead, apparently due to blunt force trauma to the head and face, Markiewicz said.
First ministers will have to decide whether putting such a blunt question to the people is politically desirable, then whether they can do it under the terms of the 1998 Act which implemented the Good Friday Agreement.
Mr Rafsanjani, a pragmatist conservative who has drifted closer to the reformist camp, retorted with a blunt letter to the Supreme Leader, accusing the president of lying, and of endangering Iran's Islamic system of government.
Neither a 2 percent hike in Social Security payroll taxes that took effect in January, nor delayed federal income tax returns this year appeared to blunt borrowers' ability to manage their debt.
Congressmen have fought bitterly over whether to extend unemployment benefits, with Republicans arguing that it would blunt incentives to work, yet no one has paid attention to the costly rise in disability rolls.
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Bradley's group, Palm Solutions, accounts for most of Palm's revenue but manages only 29 cents in gross profit on the sales dollar. (The software group, PalmSource, gets 91 cents on the dollar.) PalmSource gleefully licenses its fabled operating system to the likes of Sony and Kyocera, which then use it as a blunt object to beat Bradley's hardware group into the ground.
One way Apple might aim to blunt any disappointing figures is to announce plans to return more of its massive cash pile to shareholders.
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Many filtering programs take a very blunt approach to web-based systems with which currently they cannot adequately deal.
The state medical examiner ruled that Tsarnaev died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso.
I'm talking about Welsh Labour MPs and their blunt message to the First Minister on the devolution of policing.
"Customers will not benefit if regulators blunt incentives to invest and take risks, " the company said in an official statement.
Last Thursday, Mubarak surprised the world when he did not step down during a blunt address to the Egyptian people.
Tottenham's attacks had looked blunt up to that point, not least because it was without star center forward Emmanuel Adebayor.
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The bleeding was caused by blunt impact to the head, it found, but further tests are to be carried out.
Mr Blunt likes to portray himself as an aw-shucks small-town boy, but he too grew up in the world of politics.
Maybe once, twice, maybe three times in a winter they get hit by a car and they get blunt trauma to the head.
Mrs Beckett has delivered a blunt warning to Paddy Ashdown not to try and push Labour around over the issue of voting reform.
The unidentified driver then got out of his car and used a blunt object to attack people, San Jose police Officer Albert Morales said.
Now, more on something that Congressman Blunt alluded to, how do you place a value on a mortgage-backed security when there's no market for it?
On Friday, a Massachusetts funeral director said the main suspect's older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, had died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso.
While he may emphasize the United States' recent change in tactics -- from blunt coercion to more friendly, but no less insistent, pressure -- the bottom line is unchanged.
Boehner, who represents a southwest Ohio district, also sent a blunt letter to his colleagues in which he sounded a theme of reform and admitted his party "took a pounding" Tuesday.
This otherwise - Kirk's plan just pull up 18, 000 gang members and arrest them seems like kind of a blunt way to go about this as opposed to a precise targeted effort.
The state medical examiner ruled that Tsarnaev died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, and authorities have said his brother ran him over in a chaotic getaway attempt.
The court also heard from Home Office pathologist Derek James who told the court that Ms Dries-Jenkins had been hit with a blunt object to the head about ten times and possibly more.
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