| The blade was roughly three feet long and was slightly slimmer than a regular double-edged sword. |
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| But it is a double-edged sword because if our prices are too high we are not going to get any pupils. |
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| However the boom will be a double-edged sword for first-time buyers and those with larger mortgages who are at the mercy of interest rates. |
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| This facility with language aids the youth in their academic and career prospects, but it is a double-edged sword. |
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| On her back she wore a simple double-edged sword, but her strength hid the massive weight that it really was. |
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| What appears to be a laudable aim, however, could also be a double-edged sword. |
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| Of course, visibility is a double-edged sword and can lead to other than positive results. |
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| Youth unemployment is the other side of the double-edged sword of education. |
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| The problem with public information is that it's the proverbial double-edged sword. |
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| She notices the double-edged sword happening locally with the growing gentrification. |
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| Ah, but it's a double-edged sword, you see, and it always is for those ill-adjusted overemotional beings who make their living by playing tennis. |
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| In her left hand she holds the scales of justice while in her right she brandishes her double-edged sword to punish the guilty. |
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| He at times was so agile he became a double-edged sword, almost playing like a ruck rover. |
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| Reaching over to his left side, he drew his weapon of choice, a long double-edged sword. |
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| The sheathed and double-edged sword, or dodhar, lying across it, once belonged to Shivaji. |
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| In this issue of the Encyclopaedia Shaolin, Sifu Aguilar desgrana how Damo Jian, the straight double-edged sword of Bodhidharma. |
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| In them, it held a short double-edged sword and circular shield. |
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| Kay drew out his two-sided double-edged sword in a defensive motion. |
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| For those who embrace it, the long putter can be a double-edged sword, creating a tangle of emotions that is difficult to unknot. |
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| It's also a double-edged sword that could hurt local Democrats and Republicans alike. |
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| He can wield energy as a weapon now, but it is already proving a double-edged sword. |
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| While his defection may prove a double-edged sword for Labour, and it may even disrupt Ukip, it is really horrible for David Cameron. |
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| I don't mean to criticize the selling of genetics for sheep, but just one thing I want to point out is that it's almost a double-edged sword. |
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| A country's framework of policy and legislation on CSOs is considered by many as a double-edged sword. |
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| Thus, dissociation may be a double-edged sword, it may help in the short-term, but could place the victim at increased risk for later problems. |
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| It is not lost on O'Neill that he has made the most of whatever spondulicks he has been given to invest in players, but he recognises this as a double-edged sword. |
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| When foreign, on-location production is the only game in town, we perceive it as a double-edged sword. |
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| The extensive use of volunteers in the cultural sector, while indispensable in the context of a resource crunch, acts as a double-edged sword, contributing both to stability and instability within the sector. |
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| The region's strong reliance on oil for continued growth has created a double-edged sword, by driving the price of oil upwards through strong demand and consequently forcing the region to bear the brunt of higher prices. |
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| Even where they are correctly and reasonably applied, such measures can be a double-edged sword, harming the market which applies them as well as the exporting companies against which they are applied. |
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| Public legal education can be a double-edged sword. |
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| The very structure of the show becomes a double-edged sword. |
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| Still, Botox injections and facelifts are a double-edged sword. |
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| Technical innovations, too, are a double-edged sword. |
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| Bonnie MacQueen has looked critically into the Girl Guide movement in British Columbia and feels that Guiding was a double-edged sword for women. |
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| However, leverage is a double-edged sword. |
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| As a tool of social activism, plague functions as a double-edged sword. |
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| So why does HND remain such a double-edged sword and what can be done to tackle the problem? |
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| However, this is a double-edged sword because the moderation in new equipment prices is putting pressure on the value of used machinery, making a producer's trade-in worth less. |
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| Management plans: an imposition or a double-edged sword? |
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| Recognition, however, was a double-edged sword. |
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| The notion of providing the Innu with programs and services equivalent to those available to status Indians on reserve has come to be a double-edged sword as far as the outposts program is concerned. |
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| But this public awareness of ED has been a double-edged sword. |
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| I think that a longer sentence is a sort of double-edged sword. |
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| Pride and commitment to the RCMP can be a double-edged sword. |
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| Born in Lagos, the speed-fuelled capital of Nigeria, Femi rallied to the cause after his father's death in '97, leading a crusade against injustice and corruption with the double-edged sword of music and politics. |
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