Scatter Gun

Word SCATTER GUN
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It would be easy to automate, cheaper than scatter-gun advertising and provide a useful service, especially to those who don't visit their GP at all often. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Such an unfocussed and scatter-gun assault is already pressing sympathetic buttons, and profiting from the usual heavy-footed public relations blundering of the municipal authorities, and the straight-man impressionability of patronizing editorialists. ❋ Conrad Black (2011)

As the interest in Oxlade-Chamberlain demonstrates, the club's new owners want to invest in top-quality young talent and move away from the scatter-gun approach that arguably characterised Liverpool's recruitment policy before the overhaul of the youth academy under Frank McParland in 2009. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Instead, both the House and Senate bills are packed full of scatter-gun regulations that owe more to the prejudices of legislators than to a rational assessment of what actually went wrong. ❋ Niall Ferguson And Ted Forstmann (2010)

In fact, this swirl of voices means that tension is often spilled to the detriment of pace, though the scatter-gun narrative technique becomes less intrusive as the novel finds itself. ❋ Joanna Briscoe (2010)

Yet despite that number, we do have to keep in mind that comedy outdistances other genres because of the sheer volume of how many comedies are produced, like a scatter-gun effect. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However, thanks to Ian Swanson, I do know that the Scottish Secretary thinks that "Most Scots are now saying TGI Britain" amongst many other points from the man that are like a scatter-gun approach to getting an anti-independence quote into a newspaper. ❋ Jeff (2009)

No matter his failures -- or the fruitlessness of his extravagant and scatter-gun governmental activism -- he redeems America of an ugly past. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He said he didn't want to take "a scatter-gun approach" to coaching his players because they have all been bombarded by facts coming into this game. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Ahmad Hamdan is using the scatter-gun approach across decades and clearly out of context. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Your scatter-gun approach is not a proven winner but a sure loser. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

But what this Anon post shows is that all the stuff about Eton etc is just thrown in as scatter-gun fire when the true complaint has nothing to do with this, but is about an alleged desertion of the "interests and values of its traditional supporters". ❋ Unknown (2007)

KING: Now we are going to scatter-gun and cover a lot. ❋ Unknown (2001)

It wasn't necessarily directed at me, but as I'd watched this man, I'd forged enough of an empathy with him that I knew he handled his anger in an inappropriate and scatter-gun fashion. ❋ Muller, Marcia (1989)

      I supported her intentions but was deeply concerned by the scatter-gun publicity generated by her activities and urged her to be more cautious in her public comments. ❋ Bothroyd, Betty (1988)

He simply swung the scatter-gun in a strong, climbing arc. ❋ King, Stephen, 1947- (1987)

He's scared to death, Forsythe -- he can't hit a barn-door with a scatter-gun! ❋ J. Raymond Elderdice (N/A)

As he drew closer, they noticed he carried a sawed-off "scatter-gun," otherwise a shotgun. ❋ Willard F. Baker (N/A)

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