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They couldn’t use bricks and bludgeons like their enemies did, but they could use words potentially as fearsome as any weapons.
In Azerbaijan, she said, the ruling party was wielding Facebook as a bludgeon to harass the opposition.
Facebook whistleblower says if India is to stay a democracy it must tackle issues like the “IT cell arms race” | Karishma Mehrotra | November 12, 2021 | QuartzHe hit the tribesmen on the head with his bludgeon and “the subsequent proceedings interest him no more.”
The Story Behind The World’s Greatest Headline | Brandy Zadrozny | January 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Instead, he rushed to use the firearms issue as one more tool to bludgeon and discredit his Republican opposition.
Angry Gun-Control Debate Does Damage to Both the Right and the Left | Michael Medved | January 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOr is it too valuable to use as a bludgeon against Republicans?
Mark McKinnon: Do Democrats & Republicans Really Want Immigration Reform? | Mark McKinnon | November 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIn recent cycles, the GOP has been very effective in using fossil fuel production as an electoral bludgeon against Democrats.
“If Giannoulias loses, the Republicans and the mainstream media are going to bludgeon Obama,” said Anderson.
He was rejoicing in the upheaval that permitted debts to be paid with a bludgeon and money to be made without toil.
The Red Year | Louis TracyI had this time taken care to come out provided with a stout bludgeon and a sword.
Hurricane Hurry | W.H.G. KingstonThe secret of their power is their insensibility to blows; tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude.
The Devil's Dictionary | Ambrose BierceHe did not draw their blood personally with the usual weapons of homicide—pistol, dagger, bludgeon or ax.
The Incendiary | W. A. (William Augustine) LeahyHe dealt the bludgeon blows of one who seemed to boast that he was not clever but tried to be honest.
Lady Lilith | Stephen McKenna
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