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Europeans have striven this year to maintain U.S. backing for Ukraine—or at least blunt a reduction in U.S. support.

Lancaster University warned the scheme may be "too blunt an instrument to successfully support young people into secure and sustained employment".

Back in Sioux City, mechanic Robert Dobney, 57, was more blunt.

In the first innings in Perth the home side tried to blunt England's attack and were bowled out in 32.5 overs.

A “salon” of multiple smaller works introduced each section, enlarging on Mr. Whitney’s shift from gatherings of blunt, sometimes layered, rounded forms to the abutments of rectangles that have preoccupied him since the 1990s.