The point of the pencil has become dull.

I have a dull pain in my temples and my mind feels like its covered with a thin layer of fog.

It's getting blunter and blunter.

3.3, quoting the Tajikistan Daily Digest, Eurasianet, 4 June 2004.

Think of the children on the slow side of the class.

I ended up with blunt chest trauma.

It's a joint of tubes. You start by teaching angles an acute angle, a right angle, an obtuse angle, a straight angle.

My sword may be blunt, but that's more than enough for someone like you.

The insane and persons suffering from mental retardation or extremely limited mental competence

Older ones had become slow at school because of lack of iron and other vital substances.

However, the decision did not lay down how mental retardation should be defined (although the majority quoted the definition used by the American Association of Mental Retardation and the American Psychiatric Association, both of which stressed significant sub average mental functioning ).

That handbook would be useful in designing passivation, re orbiting and other debris mitigation activities.

In addition to the stab wounds, Mr Bryden suffered blunt force trauma during the assault.

However, Bahrain and Morocco reported that they had no laws to prohibit the execution of the mentally retarded.

Twitter users did not hold back when the heard how insensitive Byron Macdonlad was being

The lenses are blunt, feature warping tools that generate more than 30 million enhanced selfies a day.

See also Francis et al v. Trinidad and Tobago (Communication No.

Even though most responding countries state that the insane and the mentally retarded are shielded from the infliction of the death penalty and especially from execution, reports of mentally ill and retarded persons facing the death penalty have continued to emerge during the five years covered by the seventh survey.

You know, you're so right. We must give him a hand, because this man knows how insensitive our government is.

The reply from Trinidad and Tobago stated that the law did not allow the mentally retarded or those of extremely limited mental competence to be sentenced to death.

What then happens is not an across the board reduction in all your mental capacities, a sort of blunting of your cognitive ability.

In fact, according to JFBA, the court finds even the most mentally retarded people are completely mentally competent.

In this regard, the report has highlighted the necessity of clarifying the safeguards to be applied to the mentally ill as opposed to the insane or the mentally retarded.

He feels hot, cold, sharp, dull, all in his missing hand, or both his hand and his chest, but he can attend to either.

And so I do like something which is pointed, not blunt, something which is focused on reality, something that has the power, through its leverage, to transform even a very small space.

These effects can also be manifested as severe headache or nausea, and can lead to reduced judgment, dizziness, irritability, fatigue, impaired memory function, deficits in perception and coordination, reaction time, or sleepiness

In fact they would never have thought of themselves as closed and set in their ways, as slow to respond to new challenges, as small and risk averse.

Because, hey, if we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

To avoid iodine deficiency a common cause of mental retardation in children Myanmar had greatly increased iodized salt consumption to cover most households.

Over the last 15 years, UNICEF has led a global effort to eliminate iodine deficiency disorders, the most widespread cause of preventable mental retardation among children.

And the consequence is that many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not, because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.

The Subcommittee also noted that Canada had considered the effect of orbital debris in the design of the spacecraft RADARSAT 1 and 2 and that India had designed its launch vehicles with passivation features for the final stages.

Unlike such tools, interest rate policy is a blunt instrument for dealing with financial imbalances. And using interest rates to address such concerns may interfere with the central bank s primary objective of keeping inflation near target.

But it appears that this is only insofar as mental retardation falls within the concept of abnormality of mind, defined as a condition of arrested or retarded development of mind or inherent causes or induced by disease or injury .

There has also been progress in abolishing the mandatory imposition of the death sentence in several countries and in restricting further the imposition of the death penalty on those under the age of 18 at the time of the offence and on those who are mentally retarded or suffering from mental illness.

The great gift of secularism, in turn, has been tolerance. Despite horrific twentieth century backsliding in Europe, secularism has served to blunt the edge of bigotry, because secular reasoning, unlike divine revelation, is never conclusive.

Thailand replied that the mentally retarded or those of extremely limited mental competence may not be sentenced to death because section 78 of the Thai Penal Code allows extenuating circumstances to be taken into account by the Court, which may if it thinks fit, reduce the punishment to be inflicted on the offender by not more than one half .

In Japan the weak minded cannot be sentenced to death, but the legal test of being able to distinguish right from wrong and the mental competence to act on that knowledge is so limited that JFBA reported that mental retardation is not necessarily included in weak minded .

This review suggests that the safeguard to protect the insane and persons suffering from mental retardation or extremely limited mental competence from capital punishment will need to be reformulated to be in line with the recommendation of the Commission on Human Rights to include any form of mental disorder .

Populism can be a necessary corrective when political parties grow sclerotic, mass media become too complacent (or too close to power), and bureaucracies are unresponsive to popular needs. In a globalized world managed by bankers and technocrats, many people feel that they have no say in public affairs they feel abandoned.

He has registered the US Congress s hostility toward Iran and the desire to confront the Islamic Republic militarily. He believes, however, that he can avoid extreme solutions in diplomacy, anything can happen, and the worst case scenario is never guaranteed.

However, these clinical trauma theorists do not argue that repressed or dissociated memories of horrific events are either inert or benign. On the contrary, these buried memories silently poison the lives of victims, giving rise to seemingly inexplicable psychiatric symptoms, and therefore must be exhumed for healing to occur.

Dr. Edston concluded that the complainant had been subjected to the following torture hit with blunt instruments stabbed with a screwdriver and a police truncheon burned with cigarettes, a heated screwdriver and possibly a branding iron beaten systematically on the soles of his feet attempted suffocation by introducing hot water into his nose rolling of the legs with bamboo rods sexual violence including rape.

The US state of California, which has become increasingly dysfunctional since a 1978 popular referendum capped property taxes, can attest to that. Nor is it an answer to demand hasty enactment of legislation in the face of a threat to cause public disorder by starving oneself to death, as Anna Hazare has done.

Political competition makes it necessary for all politicians, whatever their age, to stay on their toes, anticipate new problems, and remain open to new ideas aimed at addressing them. No one can keep himself ensconced in high office subject only to death or his own boredom.