The policies have been described as a "sticking plaster" or just "one-piece of the jigsaw".
But we need a long term solution to this, not just this short-term sticking plaster.
He criticised efforts to recruit GPs from overseas saying it was like putting "a sticking plaster on a gaping sore".
He told MPs that any future financial rescue package for Ireland must address underlying economic problems rather than act as a "sticking plaster".
That is why investors see any purchases by the European Central Bank of Spanish and Italian debt as - at best - a sticking plaster.
Some reporting comes close to repeatedly ripping a sticking plaster off.
The point is that if excessive debt is the disease, what we've had since the end of 2008 is analgesic and sticking plaster, rather than cure.
The question then for the countries with warships in the region is this: Do they have the long-term commitment to keep funding a force that is at best a sticking plaster for the problem?
While it is far from obvious that geckos' feet could inspire a new kind of sticking plaster, there are some fields such as robotics in which borrowing designs from nature is self-evidently the sensible thing to do.
The sticking plaster is only useful if it gives Italy and Spain sufficient time to persuade the markets that they have their deficits on a sustainable downward trend and their public finances are being properly fixed.
To avoid it just being a sticking plaster it would have to come with large amounts of fiscal transfer, as suggested on 21 July, in the form a quasi-Marshall Plan (since eurobonds are off the agenda due to the German court ruling).
The ECB is regarded as having provided a sticking-plaster rather than a cure for what ails the eurozone.
IMF, but it will be a mere sticking-plaster over a festering financial wound.
"There are the short-term sticking-plaster steps of a proper firewall to prevent contagion around Europe, a much more decisive settlement for Greece... strengthening the European banks, " he told Sky News.
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