"If the goal is to reduce unnecessary utilization, co-payments are really a blunt tool."

Military force would be a heavier but blunter tool, and its efficacy could never be assured.

Make the tool more blunt, increasing the strength of the cutting edge.

He fully confirms what I suspected, though; and blunt tools are sometimes found of use, where sharper instruments would fail.

This shows that the stability spectrum is a relatively blunt tool.

It would be folly to continue work with a blunt tool.

You couldn't expect a craftsman such as himself to make a decent job of the thing with a blunt tool.

But the scales are a blunt tool," he said.

"But changing people's cultural practices through criminal law is often a very blunt and ineffective tool."