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I wish that the books on language were as easy to follow, but at the same time am relieved that they lack the pile-it-on sledgehammer polemic.
The current law can deal with an infringement or illegality without the whole of the rate being quashed under this sledgehammer of an amendment.
We have felt the whirlwind and the sledgehammer impact of the recession.
The sledgehammer hit our main export and growth sectors.
Why bring a sledgehammer to crack a walnut?
That would leave judicial review, which is an extraordinarily heavy sledgehammer, as the only really effective means of redress.
He decided to use the legislative sledgehammer—option 5—whereas most reasonable people would have concluded that the evidence pointed to option 2 or 3.
Taken together, those measures amount to a sledgehammer, which might be appropriate for a serious complaint.
There is more danger that a sledgehammer will bring the house down than accomplish any good or complicated repairs.
The occasional sledgehammer may not be enough to overcome what is a pervasive practice.
The spectacle of representatives of the industry arriving at old ladies' doors with sledgehammers to break down the doors and remove electricity meters persists.
It is no use facing them with a sledgehammer and confrontation.
To use the full weight of company law in order to regulate small private companies is to use a sledgehammer to swat a fly.
So we must take a sledgehammer to deal with it.
It was a crude instrument—a sledgehammer of an instrument.
