The operation was crude, but effective Logan was the smuggler.
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For a start, that means surrendering rhetorical techniques that are crude but effective.
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Instead, Mr. Maduro's administration erected a crude, but effective blockade across the border bridge with Colombia.
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But players share their journey with another player in real time, creating a crude but effective collaboration.
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This allows for a crude, but effective, translation of the impact that podcasts had on that user's activity.
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Still, as the Nice truck attack and others have shown, there are always crude, but effective ways to strike.
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Employing radiation, which served as a crude but effective form of birth control, Knipling and Bushland sterilized millions of male screwworms.
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Design isn't as important for the admin site, so you can build that in something crude but effective like ActiveAdmin; why roll your own?
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The Nebelwerfer was not intended for direct fire, but soldiers developed crude but effective aiming techniques and, on occasion, were able to hit and destroy tanks.
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During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump rose to the top by needling his opponents with crude but effective nicknames: Lyin' Ted, Little Marco, Low-Energy Jeb, and Crooked Hillary.
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William BraceyWest Orange, N.J. To the Editor: Darcy Lockman's discussion of the veneration of "do something" dads overlooks one crude but effective solution to the parenting imbalance in many families: joint custody.
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The first three films in the "Purge" series were (A) crude but effective exploitation flicks with a sociological veneer or (B) eerily prescient forecasts of the rise of white nationalism and the degeneration of American politics.
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The United States never formally attributed the cyberelement of those attacks to Russia, though outside experts say it was all part of a unified military operation that, in retrospect, was a crude but effective foreshadowing of Russian operations to come.
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The Sequence pages allowed you to define sequences and songs. Simple quantization was available, and a crude, but effective step-editor to tweak individual sequence elements. Sequences (with up to eight instruments playing simultaneously) could be assembled into Song Steps. In assembling songs, you could define the number of repetitions of each sequence that comprised a song step.
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By means of canvas and other materials the structure was made into a crude but effective shelter.Mills 1999, pp. 239–240. Wild initially estimated that they would have to wait one month for rescue, and refused to allow long-term stockpiling of seal and penguin meat because this, in his view, was defeatist.Mills 1999, p. 241.
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Simko was forced to abandon his region in the fall of 1922, and spent eight years in hiding. When the Iranian government persuaded him to submit, he was ambushed and killed around Ushno (Oshnavieh) in 1930. After this, Reza Shah pursued a crude but effective policy against the Kurds. Hundreds of Kurdish chiefs were deported and forced into exile.
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At headquarters were published the military newspapers Cabichuí (mainly in Spanish)Thompson, 207 recollected that Cabichuí was entirely in Guaraní but his recollection was faulty. and Cacique Lambaré (mainly in Guaraní). These featured crude but effective propaganda woodcuts, often of a racially offensive nature. Paper was in short supply but an ersatz version was improvised from caraguatá (wild pineapple).
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Literary critic Niculae Gheran, who was involved with the UP paramilitary as a teenager, recalls that the atmosphere was still largely apolitical, and that the formations were set out to eradicate criminality.Gheran, pp. 301–312 The "game of cops and robbers" ended when Eugen Alimănescu of the Bucharest Police took control of the situation, with crude but effective methods.Gheran, pp.
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A crude but effective improvised 12-gauge shotgun used during the Bosnian War The Błyskawica (Lightning) was a simple submachine gun produced by the Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, a Polish resistance movement fighting the Germans in occupied Poland. It was produced in underground workshops. Its main feature was its simplicity, so that the weapon could be made even in small workshops, by inexperienced engineers. It used threaded pipes for simplicity.
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Crude, but effective, the system worked. The unit also employed PSYWAR operations by fitting loudspeakers to its C-47s. The sight of a transport aircraft flying low with impunity was in itself a psychological blow to Chinese Communist and North Korean soldiers, female voices were used for loudspeaker messages announcing that if the troops did not surrender, they would be napalmed. F-51 Mustangs would accompany the C-47s with show-of-force overflights.
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Motorists had the unusual problem of facing a trolley approaching head-on in their lane. This odd arrangement also existed in some of the towns where the trolley ran alongside a curb. In the country, sidings allowed opposing cars to pass at various points, and a crude but effective block signal system protected the car's progress and required the West Penn motorman to reach from his trolley window and throw a toggle switch. West Penn had some impressively substantial bridges crossing ravines and valleys.
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Thus, as a usurper within his own dynasty, he cast about for a claim to legitimacy. He found it in a marriage to David's sister Edith, often called Matilda in Norman fashion, who had accompanied David in his exile.Green, "David I and Henry I", passim; Oram, David I: The King Who Made Scotland, p. 49ff. esp. 52-53. She was a descendant of the near-extinct dynasty of Wessex through her mother, and thereby provided a crude but effective means to create a legal basis for his rule.
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Scarborough 2003, "Alerted to the Apache's arrival by lookouts along the route, Iraqi civilians armed with AK-47s and Medina soldiers fired guns and Russian-made artillery barrage-style in crude but effective self-defense." The large aerial strike was repulsed, and one Apache was shot down (according to Iraqi state TV, shot at by a peasant firing an AK-47, although it was likely hit by 23 mm rounds), and all the remainder damaged, some of them taken temporary out of service and at least two being written off. Only seven were still operational after the failed raid. The two crew members of the downed aircraft were captured by the Iraqis.
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The instigators of the Second Mafia War were the Corleonesi, the Mafia Family from the town of Corleone, although they were helped by a number of other Mafia Families. Hailing as they did from a small rural town, the Corleonesi were often referred to as "the peasants" - i viddani in Sicilian - by other Mafia Families, especially by the powerful urbanized bosses in the capital of Palermo. Things began to change in the 1960s as the Corleonesi grew in power and prestige under the leadership of the brutal and ambitious Luciano Leggio, who had become the Mafia boss of Corleone via the crude but effective method of simply shooting the old one, Michele Navarra.Schneider & Schneider, Reversible Destiny, p.
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