And in front of her was a young guy with a sharpened screwdriver who was pacing back and forth in front of her, slapping the sharpened screwdriver on his hand.
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" He added that the "headline was sharpened for clarity.
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"It definitely sharpened my focus," he says of the incident.
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As with baseball or piano, Fortnite skills can be sharpened.
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Strains between Washington and Tehran have sharpened since the spring.
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Streaming services have now sharpened the competition for viewers' attention.
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Stimulating the shopping experience sharpened their math and budgeting skills.
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The tax still sharpened incentives, the handouts softened the pain.
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The exigencies of the primaries have sharpened Mr Rubio's tone.
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They beat him with a sock stuffed with sharpened rocks.
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These games have sharpened their gameplay to a fine edge.
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But it also sharpened an ideological divide in the society.
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Blue pencils — sharpened, finished and ready for packaging and sale.
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This has sharpened one of our many forms of polarization.
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More recently, Sanders has both broadened and sharpened his critique.
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The strong numbers sharpened the focus on Friday's payrolls report.
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Now, an axe added sharpened steel to sharp legal practice.
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If the edge gets dull, you can get it sharpened.
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The tools included a saw, plastic strips, and a sharpened screwdriver.
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Mueller's appearance sharpened the knife edge on which Pelosi is operating.
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Today, a sickle is being sharpened to plunge into that heart.
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Clinton arrived at Thursday's debate with policy knives sharpened and ready.
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Do you like her nails better natural or sharpened into talons?
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Under his tutelage, my guard was modified: elbows sharpened; stance narrowed.
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Instead of strengthening this key alliance, Trump has sharpened its divisions.
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But just hearing about it sharpened his obsession with its potential.
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But his focus on architecture sharpened following several trips to Europe.
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Still, he could not bridge the divide; perhaps he sharpened it.
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Her familiarity with addiction sharpened her ability to spot danger signs.
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On social media, the transactional nature of celebrity activism is sharpened.
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But something about Mr. Trump's election, she said, sharpened their differences.
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It has sharpened my longing for you & our sweet & peaceful home.
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In this case, the photo is slightly over-sharpened and unnatural.
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Tired regime survival tool kits have been sharpened with fresh intensity.
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Other Democratic presidential candidates also have sharpened their calls for impeachment.
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Higher-order thinking processes are quieted as the senses are sharpened.
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At least the old Leaf's dumpy styling has been sharpened for 230.
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I amassed an arsenal made of words sharpened to a fine point.
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The process has sharpened struggles between reformers and conservatives within the government.
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Before (left) and after (right) Magic Pony's algorithms have sharpened a video.
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Export-oriented manufacturers (nearly all of them private) have sharpened up dramatically.
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Worse, they sharpened differences among voters and made arriving at compromise harder.
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The more fit someone became, the more his or her memory sharpened.
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Attuned to the task at hand, suspicious of everything, our senses sharpened.
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If Brexit does not mean Brexit, their long knives will be sharpened.
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Stainless steel has those qualities but also needs to be sharpened regularly.
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Having sharpened swords and doing it naked would have been highly dangerous.
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At this point, an ax has been sharpened but not yet swung.
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But advances over the past five years have sharpened the machine's focus.
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Mainstream publications repeated and sharpened the report, prompting headlines around the globe.
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In this setting, her loose, silly charisma sharpened into a steely deadpan.
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But the mistakes suggest that the campaign should be sharpened, not abandoned.
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For now, memories of Charlottesville are about to be sharpened once again.
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That is where Nadler shaped his political muscle and sharpened his instincts.
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Researchers even found that Ötzi had sharpened his tools days before his murder .
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Raise up your dagger or car keys or sharpened carrot or whatever. 2.
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Many roosters had sharpened spurs and there were blood splatters in an area.
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This has sharpened local rivalries and is encouraging parties to campaign extra hard.
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The terrorists used bags of liquid sarin, which they pierced with sharpened umbrellas.
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Siblings, his mother sometimes said pitifully, were the ones you sharpened yourself against.
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The mobile streaming format Meerkat introduced and Periscope sharpened, Facebook is actually popularizing.
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The habit of preparing for typhoons has also sharpened the impulse to stockpile.
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Luckily, Morgan's sharpened staff isn&apost as pointy as it used to be.
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In particular, participants sharpened their abilities to quickly shift their focus and concentrate.
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AbbVie has sharpened its focus on oncology to reduce its reliance on Humira.
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But weapons are only effective over time if they are recalibrated or sharpened.
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I recently took a trip to Berlin that sharpened my view of America.
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Before long, alas, sentiments and laws sharpened, until interracial couples risked fearsome punishments.
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" Then her voice sharpened: "You just have to do exactly what we discussed.
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He delved into a beloved extracurricular — Latin dancing — and sharpened his finance skills.
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Ms. Dacus, though, has teeth sharpened by the realities of being a woman.
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We see how the initial high concept pitch was sharpened and further layered.
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In their new adaptation, Mr. Taccone and Mr. Cohen have sharpened the echoes.
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It has a five-blade cartridge made with USA-sharpened and assembled steel.
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Mechanical pencils never needed to be sharpened, and that's why they used them.
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Hardware companies sharpened their products to meet that higher perception and stay solvent.
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Even with my freshly sharpened knife, the tacos were surprisingly difficult to chop.
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He has sharpened his allegations even as Republican lawyers called his assertions unfounded.
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President Trump sharpened his anti-immigration message through the voices of his base.
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It had been recently sharpened, based on its glossy appearance, Dr. Wierer concluded.
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Possibly running out of time, Buttigieg sharpened his attack on Sanders on Saturday.
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Soon after the flattering profile in People's Daily, the site's social edge sharpened.
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After mastering how to sell everyone else's stuff, Amazon has sharpened its focus.
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They carry whistles, pepper spray and sharpened pencils in case they are attacked.
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Silver knives are harmlessly blunt and never sharpened: It wastes the precious metal.
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For Tversky, military service sharpened the brazenness that became crucial to their collaboration.
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The state-run news media has also sharpened its criticism of American politicians.
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If they don't need to get sharpened, I'll at least oil them up.
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But we have simply sharpened an arrow in the quiver of violent extremists.
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Perhaps our own social retrenchment has sharpened our awareness of nostalgia's platitudes and falsities.
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Your mental acuity will be sharpened, which is a welcome change after Mercury retrograde!
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The man stabbed him in the eye with the sharpened handle of a toothbrush.
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I told him that I intended to gather more information, and his voice sharpened.
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And we've sharpened our pencils on our budgets, and we'll continue to do that.
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This is sharpened by a general election due to take place on October 7th.
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A finely sharpened pair of scissors works properly because it has no back bevel.
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This dichotomy has been sharpened by a run of weak data in recent days.
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That's when he realized that Lee sharpened his mind as much as his body.
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Whether the smart ring has actually sharpened managers' investment decisions remains to be seen.
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Hooked my brothers up and sharpened their stuff, they are buying me new belts.
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That generation of chips was smaller than a sharpened pencil tip, the person says.
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If you don't own a sharp chef's knife, buy one or get yours sharpened.
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Everyone in our neighborhood is walking around with sharpened machetes and guns for protection.
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I seriously can't wait to compete again, hopefully with some sharpened skills next time.
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I'd prowled the halls of mysterious libraries, gathered mystical relics, and sharpened my blades.
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Philip's deflationary wit, which has only sharpened with age, is part of his appeal.
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But Westerman had sharpened divisions at the bank, including with bonus payments, Bloomberg reported.
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Mechanical pencils never needed to be sharpened, and that was why she liked them.
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Then something emerged that both sharpened and salved the sting of the trial's halt.
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Recently health authorities in the United States have sharpened warnings about alcohol in pregnancy.
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As student demands have grown more politically charged, the divisions on campus have sharpened.
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The Hill: Democrats sharpened their arguments asserting abuse of power during Thursday's opening arguments.
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His habitual dyspepsia has been sharpened by the way Warren steals his revolutionary thunder.
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Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren -- have sharpened their criticism of one another's campaign themes.
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Although their comic zest seldom falters, the topical bite of the books has sharpened.
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"He was tortured like an animal," Ms. Harris said, her words sharpened by anger.
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My activist impulses have grown since my youth, and those instincts have been sharpened.
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Yeah, we were given metal dinner trays, which people snapped bits off and sharpened.
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"I think it's sharpened our edge better for pitching ourselves to future businesses," he said.
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She sharpened her craft with the help of fellow cospainter Lianne Moseley, she tells BI.
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" She sighed to herself before her eyes sharpened and she asked, "How old are you?
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But, on the other side, competition sharpened the conflict of interest between reviewers and creators.
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The tattoos are inked by Buddhist monks using sharpened bamboo sticks or long metal needles.
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In the days since her Nevada victory, Sanders has increasingly sharpened his attacks on Clinton.
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Expectations that U.S. rates will stay lower for longer have sharpened appetite for the metal.
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Twitter quickly meme'd the moment, and many publications, including this one, sharpened their think pieces.
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Posting is an art form, and Twitter's arbitrary limit sharpened good posts into pithy masterpieces.
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Yemen's civil war has sharpened a long-running divide between the country's north and south.
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Few took his more combative books and essays altogether seriously, though they sharpened the conversation.
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She sharpened her husband's then-hazy form, made him solid, more than just a dream.
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The president agreed to end the shutdown as the pain from the wall impasse sharpened.
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Angry conservative pundits sharpened their knives for Priebus, with some calling on him to resign.
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Angelique Kerber, Simona Halep and Karolina Pliskova all sharpened their grasscourt games ahead of Wimbledon.
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The contradictions such groups activated in the late 1960s have only sharpened since then. 7.
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The P.S.G. and Milan cases have also sharpened the focus on UEFA's financial control bodies.
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"On the field, they are about as sharpened up as it gets," Aaron Hicks said.
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Every day I worked with Piersall, my fundamentals sharpened because I trusted his expertise wholly.
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As Australia moved closer to granting marriage rights to all in 2017, her rhetoric sharpened.
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The two exposés sharpened international debate over the Chinese government's intense crackdown across the region.
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The desired end result is a neurochemical "reset"—a brain decluttered, procrastination banished, focus sharpened.
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" He warned that "our national unity would be weakened if the theoretical differences were sharpened.
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On Monday, an unrelated controversy sharpened the tensions between Trump and Republicans on Capitol Hill.
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" On Sunday afternoon, Uber sharpened its criticism of the ban, calling it "wrong and unjust.
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U.S. gold futures gained 1.65 percent to $1,368.10 an ounce, as safe-haven demand sharpened.
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But Mr. Christiansen said that increased access to those with power, only sharpened Superflex's critique.
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Amina's anguish is sharpened by her relationship with the man she blames for her son's death.
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One reason is that Lava Jato has sharpened the incentive for politicians to cling to office.
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By the time a Washington Post correspondent arrived in Ayahualtempa this week, Alex's suspicion had sharpened.
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My rebellious nature, and my inclination for pointing out her caprices may have sharpened her disfavor.
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All this has sharpened a sense that the gains of 21991 have not been built on.
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A paper published in 2001 by Sanford Grossman and Mr Hart sharpened the thinking on this.
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WPR's team has grown, and our coverage of politics around the world has expanded and sharpened.
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Property rights have only sharpened during the housing crisis; the last government criminalised squatting in 2012.
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Archaeologists discovered a 10,000-year-old elongated piece of ochre with a sharpened end in Britain.
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As fruitful as their partnership was, it sharpened tensions with the band members they were sidelining.
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It seems that the direct message feature is a result of some of that sharpened focus.
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By drawing attention to exploitable gaps in international tax rules, it sharpened the debate on reform.
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U.S. gold futures GCcv1 gained 0.80 percent to $1,356.70 an ounce as safe-haven demand sharpened.
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As he sharpened his routine, Mexicans became not only rapists and drug dealers but also murderers.
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The recall is a right-wing tool that now has been sharpened by the hard left.
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You'll also need to keep in mind that blades will have to be sharpened or replaced.
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As Trump's viewing diet shifted more toward Fox News, his act soured and sharpened in turn.
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The Friend's critique of New England's mercantile class would gradually be sharpened by his ideological descendants.
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In turns muted, enraged, and utterly engrossing, here, they wield that delicacy like a sharpened blade.
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Another benefit of riding the Shosholoza Meyl was having a sharpened sense of movement and travel.
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"It reminded me of a pencil sketch, when the pencil has just been sharpened," she wrote.
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Naked on a Broadway stage, Audra McDonald is on high alert, all of her senses sharpened.
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Use square-nose shovels sharpened with a metal file until the blade slices through the dirt.
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The agency could have sharpened prescriber training programs and agreement forms, he said, or investigated prescribers.
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One woman, armed with a scythe, sharpened her blade in the center divider of the road.
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Your true value came through how you used, understood and sharpened the tools in your toolbox.
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Still, Spirit has cut 200 jobs through early retirements and sharpened its focus on cost-cutting.
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The featured attractions share their bowl with a dashi sharpened with lime and kimchi juice. Complex?
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I may not have sharpened my skills in the same way if everyone agreed with me.
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The challenges to the Iranian regime have been sharpened by ongoing demonstrations at home since Nov.
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Another is going a step further and has sharpened the Apple Card into an actual knife.
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The loyalists' anxiety was sharpened on Monday evening in advance of the president's speech about Afghanistan.
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The men hid under whatever pathetic bits of shade they could as they sharpened their chainsaws.
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But I think these protests in particular have really sharpened the understanding of the power imbalance.
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Garner has sharpened her style of grotesque beauty for several years, and the effect is deeply disquieting.
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If MiFID 2 has sharpened minds on both sides of the market, that is no bad thing.
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So throughout human existence we have hunted by hitting living things with denser, sometimes sharpened, inanimate things.
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Say what you will about the deep-dish wheels and sharpened body lines all over the car.
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The effect wasn't plumped so much as sculpted, contoured, sharpened — like a Mario Dedivanovic contour on steroids.
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America has long argued that NS2 undermines European security, but under Donald Trump the tone has sharpened.
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It sharpened all of my knives beautifully and even restored my dull and nicked knives as well.
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One of which, 'Rainbow Pencils', are pencils made from recycled paper that create shaving-rainbows when sharpened.
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This has sharpened the resentment of some Barbudans towards the inhabitants of the country's richer, bigger island.
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It sharpened my view of what I experienced growing up, and added a political context to it.
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But beyond new sanctions and sharpened rhetoric, analysts say, it is unclear how far Trump could go.
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He had harsh words for Trump, mirroring Rubio, who has also sharpened his attacks on the mogul.
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Senate Democrats are at our desks, pencils sharpened, ready to get the job done for American families.
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Added a filter in VSCO to increase contrast, added fade, Added vignette, and then sharpened the image.
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The child felt a pain just under the heart, and the woman's face sharpened and came clear.
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Archaeologists believe that the fragment may have broken off the axe as it was being re-sharpened.
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Before them, Seunggil and his comrades see a towering mountain with edges and ends sharpened to kill.
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This segmentation has been brewing for some time, but negative headlines around social media have sharpened divisions.
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Make sure the pencil is well-sharpened and apply the color into the deep pore or scar.
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Some were reported to have been asphyxiated, the officials said, and others were stabbed with sharpened toothbrushes.
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He is 70 years old now, with a perspective sharpened by his deep well of life experience.
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China's government over the past year has sharpened its scrutiny of highly leveraged companies with overseas investments.
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Their mood of mingled anger and sorrow sharpened into lamentation after the sudden death of her husband.
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Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.), one of several members of Judiciary who sharpened her stance his week.
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In high school in Houston, he sharpened his rhetorical and critical-thinking skills on the debate team.
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But the Trump presidency has dramatically sharpened what had been a mostly academic question, the paper said.
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He sat across the small desk, where my ever-sharpened pencils jutted from an old marmalade jar.
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She could not outhit the boys in distance, so she sharpened her short game as the equalizer.
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Mr. Trump is deploying the salesman tactics he sharpened over several decades in New York real estate.
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In that sense, Russia's well-sharpened tools of political tradecraft are explainable and logical, even though condemnable.
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Then he told the horns to play back their parts, this time with the syncopation sharpened up.
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If these are not accurately answered in detail, the EU competition authorities must be activated & legislation sharpened.
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Right around the same time that investors started dumping stocks and commodities, concerns about faltering oil demand sharpened.
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Thor's flat, sharpened Mjolnirs aren't really doing the trick, however, so MTYK sends a flaming arrow and ... KABLOOEY!
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By the time you actually have the negotiation, your skills will be sharpened and you'll be better prepared.
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" After another beat, her voice sharpened, "I am not convinced, and I would say this to their face.
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The resulting tool — creative resiliency — is one that will be continually sharpened over the course of a lifetime.
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There's such a satisfying …Read more ReadWatching this knife get sharpened sent satisfying tingles up my spineIt's unfair.
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It's not only the President who has sharpened his arrows in the final stretch of an ugly campaign.
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We are confident that our sharpened product focus will help us deliver a truly game changing consumer product.
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The books, the work, sharpened into focus in a gentler second round, a round that hasn't ended yet.
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He uses sharpened stones to cut clumps of dried grass for the walls before tying it all together.
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Slow client activity and concerns around a potential no-deal Brexit are likely to have sharpened those thoughts.
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Its sharpened end also suggests that the piece was used as a kind of drawing or coloring tool.
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Those instincts were particularly sharpened after a year of reporting on another celebrity-driven transportation device — the hoverboard.
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In 2004 the debate sharpened after a Dutch-Moroccan Islamist murdered Theo van Gogh, a controversial film-maker.
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Willis E. Hartshorn, Mr. Lubell's predecessor, was executive director from 1994 to 2012, and sharpened the center's goals.
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He endured sharpened questions and sustained attacks from his opponent and maybe a few flashes of self-doubt.
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" At a December Michigan rally with Trump, she sharpened her point: "For me it's simple: I trust parents.
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Then the confrontation between the protesters and the police happened on June 213, and it sharpened my thinking.
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Obama's departure from the White House hasn't softened McCain's fury; if anything, it seems to have sharpened it.
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His new mien — narrowed eyes, sharpened chin and severely angled cheekbones — gave him the appearance of a vampire.
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The attacker had stripped a tree branch of twigs, sharpened the tip, then drove it through her body.
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And just as heartening, the Trump phenomenon has sharpened the wits of a whole new breed of entertainers.
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Thames clearly stood out, overpowering pitchers who feared him so much that they ultimately sharpened his hitting eye.
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Candidates have tried to leverage their foreign policy records to garner support amid the sharpened focus on Iran.
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Candidates have tried to leverage their foreign policy records to garner support amid the sharpened focus on Iran.
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He said he could not describe the weapons used against the officers, but some inmates had sharpened instruments.
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Filled with sketchbooks, design paper, perfectly sharpened pencils, and fine black pens, the studio was his creative retreat.
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Twelve years until we stop dreaming of adopting micro pigs, and instead hunt them down with sharpened sticks.
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We sharpened it before we did it, so it wasn't that dull, and it went in pretty smooth.
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The tiny toy shoots little sharpened skewers that can apparently pierce through several layers of cardboard, apples, and lightbulbs.
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In the glass-encased room of the cafeteria where clerks could discuss cases in confidence, he sharpened his arguments.
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How has the outcome of the US election sharpened and clarified your view of humanity in the 21st century?
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As with baseball, or piano, or any number of other extracurriculars, Fortnite skills are ones that can be sharpened.
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Lo said that protestors acted violently in an organized manner using bricks and sharpened metal poles to attack police.
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That night, Santos sat underneath a blanket tent pinned down with thin rope and sharpened branches used as stakes.
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The company has sharpened its focus on its services business to cushion any blows from a slowing smartphone market.
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Now at least, Mr Dreher seems to understand that point clearly—and the abuse scandal has sharpened his understanding.
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And in the process it sharpened distinctions between the campaigns on issues where their platforms were blurry going in.
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Sometimes, it felt like small pin-pricks across your body; other times, like a sharpened pencil pricking your skin.
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Keeping the shears properly sharpened is vital, however, if you want to make quick work of your kitchen tasks.
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Some experts believe that electric stimulation of the brain sharpened memory, but others thought it only damaged the brain.
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It's capable of projecting images up to 303 inches, which are sharpened via a small dial on the front.
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Each of the men carried two small plastic bags wrapped in newspaper and an umbrella with a sharpened tip.
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If the returning great hasn't sharpened her own stand-up arsenal, this could spell an early night for her.
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These companies have sharpened their focus on service, helping guide customers through repairs and the technical auto parts market.
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Clinton has sharpened her criticism of Sanders, overall, as polls have shown him taking a slim lead this week.
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In VSCO, added filter, increased exposure and contrast, tinted and saved highlights, tweaked skin tone, sharpened and added clarity.
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Mr. Jaffe sharpened his pastrami-from-scratch skills at Carnegie Deli in Manhattan, where he worked for 10 years.
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Because I am a visual person, aesthetics are very important to me, and my visual memory is very sharpened.
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In court papers filed that spring and summer, Fisher and Pursglove's Toronto divorce lawyer, Harold Niman, sharpened their attacks.
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The moves followed a difficult year for Facebook, as questions about the unintended consequences of social media have sharpened.
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And, as brands have sharpened their focus on female buyers in recent years, the category is continuing to expand.
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Elizabeth Warren has sharpened her criticism of front-runner Bernie Sanders, while top moderates are fighting to break out.
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He switched to a gentler excavating tool, a sharpened wooden broomstick, to avoid breaking any glass or ceramic finds.
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But by the second hour of Thursday's Democratic debate, the questions had sharpened and the gloves had come off.
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But this has only sharpened its focus on trying to make more of the components and software it needs.
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The sales associate took the skates behind the counter to be sharpened, and then sent them on their way.
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Personally I don't much like the stick, but it is amazing what can be achieved with a sharpened carrot.
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The suspect had in his possession two knives which had been especially sharpened for this purpose, the report said.
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Pros: hydrating formula, pointed bullet for easy application, luxe packagingCons: bullet cannot be sharpened so loses shape over time
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Not long afterward, I brought the knives to his studio to have them sharpened, even though they weren't dull.
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The tooth brush is sharpened after being melted down, and the domino is carefully sanded into hearts or diamonds.
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During an interview on The Tonight Show, the singer said he sharpened his multi-tasking parenting skills after their births.
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As we danced, we became one in our wanting, and the awareness of our bodies sharpened until it was dizzying.
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Once the pack was totally dry, the cards were fanned out, and the edges sharpened with a piece of glass.
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That wisdom looked particularly valid given that Trump's chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, has sharpened the attacks.
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See, even when we do go into higher paying jobs our wages are still cut with blades sharpened by testosterone.
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Later, Trump issued his statement and also sharpened his tone on the disaster at a fundraiser for New Jersey Gov.
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Kaine has sharpened his attack on Mike Pence on his record on LGBT discrimination, something that could come up tonight.
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The Kavanaugh hearings sharpened their choices by juxtaposing older Republican men with younger Democratic women on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Longtime criticism Though the abortion issue has sharpened criticism of Planned Parenthood its long faced jabs over services its mission.
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With public markets retreating, wealth funds sharpened their focus on venture and growth capital financing rounds to find higher returns.
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In fact the birth of the baby only sharpened tensions between mother and daughter that had been festering for years.
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More court battles mean no clear end in sight on a topic that has only sharpened political divides in Brazil.
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And the attacks, the founders say, have only sharpened the museum's resolve to forge connections with young people in Molenbeek.
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Schiff writes slim, ice-pick stories about sex and death and nighttime cab rides, sharpened by humor and extreme candor.
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Momentous events such as World War II and the Vietnam conflict also sharpened public demand for facts and objective analysis.
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In one patient, marijuana sharpened his focus and made it possible to pay attention in class, hugely improving his grades.
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Redoine infamously sharpened his burglary skills by obsessively watching heist films, specifically Heat, starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.
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But Trump and Clinton opted to instead trade sharpened barbs that reflected the acrimony of the 2016 White House campaign.
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I messaged Technical_Glitch to find out more—our interaction is below: VICE: Has your memory of the night sharpened since?
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A friend's little brother even tossed a freshly-sharpened and heavily-weighted fishing hook atop it (as little brothers do).
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For instance, the seizing of Dabiq and other towns by Turkish-backed Syrian rebels has sharpened tensions with Kurdish militias.
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" He said the decision was sharpened "when recruits started asking me, 'Will you be here in four or five years?
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In many ways this premiere aims to cut like a freshly sharpened blade but instead bludgeons like a baseball bat.
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Trump has gradually sharpened his rhetoric against Cruz, however, as the congressman closes the gap in voter support separating them.
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The administration's antipathy toward the United Nations has been sharpened since a Security Council resolution last month condemning Israeli settlements.
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As the months passed and his tools for engagement with the world sharpened, so did his indiscriminate enthusiasm for people.
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An arrest warrant said Mr. Ham had also been stabbed with a broomstick that had been sharpened into a weapon.
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He has no party backing, and his image as a public intellectual has been sharpened by his formal speaking manner.
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"They beat me every time I failed to do so using something like sharpened batons," Cheng said in the statement.
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To resist his old habits, he tries to remind himself of the patience and focus he sharpened as a tutor.
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Gaffigan — who sharpened his acting chops in 2017's Chappaquiddick — delivers a haunting performance, as slippery as it is captivating.
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But the purges have sharpened the divide between Erdogan's supporters and Western-facing Turks who want closer ties with Europe.
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Now many of the same people she targeted from 2014 are in power and the knives are slowly being sharpened.
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The unrelenting conditions have sharpened attention on the climate change policies of Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who rejected any link.
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An already polemical fight sharpened when President Trump's administration came into power and began to methodically dismantle Obama-era policies.
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The fight over the future of monetary policy at the Fed sharpened publicly ahead of the upcoming meeting in September.
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The sound of axes being sharpened with grindstones echoed between tall metal lockers, and cigarette smoke moved through the room.
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See, even when we do go into higher-paying jobs, our wages are still cut with blades sharpened by testosterone.
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In Survival, the game's new expansion, the numbers are pared back, sharpened, and what they bring out is the cold.
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That was where he sharpened his already pointed, off-kilter sensibilities, and where he met early collaborators Dumbfoundead and Psychosiz.
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Motherhood only sharpened this need — there is so much to do on so few hours of sleep, and so little time.
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A geometric pattern of a shell sharpened as I descended to the floor, and I fanned my fingers across its ridges.
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The beats are clean and assertive, like a newly sharpened cleaver hitting the chopping board, her voice delicate and equally precise.
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Debate over state spending cuts has sharpened since the foreign minister on Saturday hinted that public sector wages would be cut.
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Concerns have been sharpened following a spate of mob attacks on minorities, including Muslims and lower-caste Hindus known as Dalits.
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Humans have been constructing implements of destruction for thousands of years, including sharpened stones, spears, daggers, bows and arrows, and clubs.
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If a photo has been digitally retouched, sharpened, or repainted, our eyes might not be able to spot it, Hanham explains.
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Originally, there was more of her own foreign policy, but it was sharpened over last week to include far more Trump.
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She aggressively shed assets and cut tens of thousand of jobs as HPE sharpened its focus on server and networking businesses.
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Reporter's Notebook BANGKOK — The protesters built what looked like medieval ramparts topped with sharpened wooden stakes in the heart of Bangkok.
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Meanwhile, autocrats have sharpened their tools of repression in order to quash protests at home and stop those elsewhere from spreading.
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Hardship has only sharpened Darlene's caustic humor, which is always at its best when she's launching her deadly deadpan at Becky.
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And the concentration of refugees among Sweden's immigrants presents a challenge that will only have been sharpened by the recent influx.
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Biden has also notably sharpened his thinly veiled attacks on Harris on the issue of health care since the last debate.
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But in the debate's closing moments, Hillary Clinton sharpened one of her most promising—yet fraught—appeals to the Democratic base.
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The spinoff should help both companies operate with "a sharpened strategic focus and tailored operating structure," Peck said in a statement.
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In the final days, he has sharpened his argument that Rubio is simply too young and too unprepared to be president.
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""Some mutilate their bodies with razors, shards of glass, sharpened chicken bones, writing utensils, and whatever other objects they can obtain.
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"The light and air were so clear that there was little optical shimmer around the sharpened edges of things," Scocca wrote.
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It's stoked his interest in politics, informed him (sort of!) on policy and sharpened his natural instincts for attack and confrontation.
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She has recently turned 40, and her mother's death has sharpened her awareness that her own youth is nearing its end.
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But his combative side has now emerged as the Democratic race has tightened and Hillary Clinton has sharpened her own rhetoric.
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The same holds true of Ben, whose worldview falters only because Mr. Ross seems anxious to soften the extremes he'd sharpened.
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"The social, economic and social-justice fights that Shirley Chisholm once led have sharpened in the Trump era," Mr. Jeffries said.
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Then hours later, the North broadened the source of its anger and sharpened the threat to the summit with Mr. Trump.
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Potts has cut prices, improved store standards, tailored products to local tastes and sharpened up marketing to differentiate Morrisons from rivals.
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Everyone have (has) benefited from the efficiencies and everyone have (has) sharpened their pencils and looked at every opportunity to optimize.
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Scalia also said he believed his father sharpened his own ideas by listening to Ginsburg's approach on a number of issues.
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And over the weekend, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sharpened her rhetoric on the White House's refusal to produce the whistleblower complaint.
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In 2000, an inmate suspected of terrorism stabbed a guard in the eye with a sharpened plastic comb on 10 South.
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Money launderers have sought new alternatives to heavily monitored bank accounts, and regulators have sharpened their focus on securities transactions(here).
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Palmer's patience and perseverance in the face of adversity, sharpened by 12 years of disappointment, was on display in the fourth quarter.
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Researchers found he fills holes with sharpened sticks to capture prey, and he placed a hammock over a hole inside his home.
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But over the past few months, the Trump administration has tweaked the order to plug those holes, and sharpened its legal defense.
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I've tracked how HP's sharpened its design chops, improved performance and battery life, and invented all new form factors with unique materials.
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Scroll on for our sharpened a shopping list of 14 must-haves that will keep you fueled, happy, and, most importantly, indoors.
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Eyeliner sharpened, nails painted black, propensity for pallid looking lead singers with unkempt, poorly dyed hair locked and loaded: I am ready.
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Expect positions to be sharpened and more detail to be disclosed as we move out of the primaries into the full election.
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Labor markets should be adapted to help workers move more easily between sectors, and the focus on the importance of education sharpened.
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Blame social media, blame lazy elites, blame the collapse of trust in institutions: the edges of politics have sharpened for many reasons.
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The ruling coalition of the Social Democrats and Greens has sharpened sentences for gun crimes and promised extra resources for the police.
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INTEREST RATES: Two influential Fed officials on Thursday sharpened their public case for acting, quickly if needed, to support the U.S. economy.
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"Here are lyrics sharpened by solitude's grindstone," the critic John Freeman wrote of "While We've Still Got Feet" in The Hartford Courant.
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The deaths in Niger have sharpened lawmakers' concerns about the extent of US military activities overseas and the rules that govern them.
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Those debates have sharpened and sustained domestic attention on Syria, giving both the public and politicians reason to emphasize the war's importance.
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The iPhone 6S Plus selfie is my least favorite since it's over-sharpened and grainy details make me look old and tired.
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Novelist Ernest Cline sharpened this vision in his 2011 debut, Ready Player One, which hits theaters in March courtesy of Steven Spielberg.
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She slept with a sharpened nail file under her pillow and had such trouble eating that she weighed less than 112 pounds.
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It's good you have a sharpened mind, because action planet Mars enters Gemini on Sunday, igniting a very busy time at home.
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More recently, following the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, shareholders and regulators alike have renewed and sharpened their focus on behavioral risk.
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But Thursday's hearing sharpened the focus on a nominee in a way not seen since the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings of 1991.
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In the indictment, prosecutors said he had taken a "saw, sharpened screwdrivers, straps, strips and pipes" into the submarine before the trip.
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The real boots were more rounded, "so I sharpened these up a bit, made them a bit more 21st century," Day said.
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The episode illustrated how the referendum last year on withdrawal, intended to end the Conservative Party's divisions over Europe, only sharpened them.
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It was once assumed that humor could be sharpened into a weapon against the powerful, but Trump's presidency calls that into question.
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Retailers and grocery stores have introduced copycat convenience-type models with food, and restaurants have sharpened their focus on breakfast and snacks.
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During my years in the B2C world, I sharpened my obsession with customer experience, continually optimizing products to offer customers maximum value.
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Previous efforts to curb sex trafficking mainly provided funding for victim services, sharpened penalties for traffickers, and documented problems in other countries.
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That data, he said, sharpened the Americans' understanding of Russian hacking, which later aided the investigation of electoral hacking during the campaign.
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What is it that happens to you, the writer, when the blurry face you've lived with for years is sharpened into specificity?
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Rose, at his athletic peak, was a slasher, a sharpened wedge; Westbrook is a battering ram that has been set on fire.
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Cabán has sharpened her ideas over seven years defending clients against a system she now hopes to take a part in radically remaking.
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He once said that while he preferred the carrot to the stick, "it is amazing what can be achieved with a sharpened carrot".
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But Wrase's paper doesn't rule out Vafa's idea—Vafa felt it sharpened the conjecture to better apply to the universe we live in.
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Her nerves twitched and jerked as she struggled not to scrabble on the ground for a fist-sized rock or a sharpened stick.
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Contestants could kick a down opponent, knee to the groin, bite, and even scratch each other with fingernails sharpened just for the purpose.
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George Washington warned that "the alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge…is itself a frightful despotism".
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During these expeditions, Murphy sharpened her skills as an ecologist, while also developing a side track as a science communicator and wildlife photographer.
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I've only read a small handful of speeches in my life, but have sharpened my ability to memorize and think on my feet.
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They have sharpened their stances, adopted a more muscular and simple delivery and paid more attention to the emotional impact of their messages.
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You understand the pain and helplessness that Evie feels with just one of Thomas's sharpened looks or the slightest knitting of her brow.
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Days after their release, and before Kerry's tone sharpened, the U.S. also secured the freedom of five American citizens held in Iranian prison.
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" The Romney assist in Ohio comes as Trump has sharpened his jabs against Kasich on the campaign trail, labeling him an "absentee governor.
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There was this narrative around how we worked that was very sharpened and presented in a way that was incredibly aggressive at trial.
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Then there is the large influx of immigrants from China in recent years, which has sharpened the perceived differences between the two countries.
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Rich has sharpened his satire over the years, and he now wields it with skill — but he does not cut a wide swath.
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Ricks had freckles that wandered the bridge of her nose and reached her high cheekbones, which now sharpened to points as she smiled.
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On Tuesday evening the standoff between General Salah and Mr. Bouteflika's circle sharpened as the general accused "certain individuals" of prolonging the crisis.
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There was this narrative around how we work that was very sharpened and presented in a way that was incredibly aggressive at trial.
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Dying has sharpened Taylor's vision, occasioning a thorough life inventory, and writing, her métier, has given her a chance to linearize her thoughts.
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"There are many things going on to combat anti-Semitism but all the efforts have to be coordinated and sharpened," Klein told Reuters.
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On Thursday, even as she sharpened her argument against certain rivals, Warren sounded a note of caution -- and reassurance -- to more moderate voters.
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Although I've never had to have my shears sharpened, Gingher does offer repairs and sharpening services with a three-to-four week turnaround.
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Bernal Cutlery: All of the city's best chefs come here to buy knives or get their current sets sharpened, and for good reason.
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" A week later, the full indictment provided more excruciating details: Madsen had brought onboard "a saw, knife, sharpened screwdrivers, straps, zip ties, and pipes.
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Looking at the quality of the edges, Wierer's team suspects that Ötzi re-sharpened and reshaped some of his tools shortly before he died.
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Writing with it is like chiseling with a sharpened stone: It requires a not-insignificant amount of effort to produce marks on the page.
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The focus on funds' activities sharpened after "taper tantrums" or big and rapid falls in U.S. bond prices on the prospect of rate rises.
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ICA sharpened its focus on asset sales this year, and has said it plans to draw up an initial restructuring plan by mid-February.
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I speak rudimentary German and had a German-Jewish Opa who sharpened my ear to the flow of the guttural language as an infant.
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So prevalent were the long, sharpened fingernails using to attack the eyes that rough-and-tumble was also known in some circles as 'gouging.
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Nevertheless, as the euro area enters its third decade it is still vulnerable to another downturn and underlying tensions are unresolved, if not sharpened.
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Colors are nice and exposure is generally accurate, but the pictures have a gritty, over-sharpened look to them, especially when you zoom in.
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We've refocused on our core small business market, sharpened our product roadmap, eliminated extraneous products, and improved the performance and reliability of our infrastructure.
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But the good news is that scientists have continued to refine it, making it more and more like a pair of recently-sharpened blades.
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It is, perhaps, that Chester Bennington had a voice that sounded like a knife crying out with the delight and agony of being sharpened.
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Austrian Alpine skier Marcel Hirscher said athletes were using a different pair of skis on every run as the frigid temperatures sharpened snow crystals.
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Whether the writer used a sharpened quill or a relief nib dipped in ink, it was the most comfortable and natural way to write.
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Corbyn's humane reaction to the Grenfell Tower tragedy has only sharpened the distinctions between Labour and the Tories, to the detriment of the Tories.
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The sparseness of the format sharpened some contrasts, like the one between Mr. Veloso's light, satiny croon and Mr. Gil's heavier, more textured cry.
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They were horrifying in their details: guards slapping children, bartering for sexual favors; women raped; detainees attempting suicide and cutting themselves with sharpened pencils.
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The phase contrasting part just means that the image can be even further sharpened by comparing how the alignment of the light waves shift.
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Instead, it may have even narrowed and sharpened it, refusing to let the show be anything other than what it is: about black people.
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In recent years, the museum's leadership has sharpened its focus on social justice, in deference to the values of the family that inspired it.
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His jokes have flown faster and more furiously, sharpened at the ends to wound even as he delivers them with his familiar broad smile.
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When young James has his art supplies taken away, he creates his own pencil with a sharpened stick and soot mixed with his spit.
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The glaring juxtaposition only sharpened the sense among Grenfell Tower residents that their well-being and safety were ignored because of who they were.
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Jahren's observations, sharpened by her work as a scientist, are not limited to the lab; she's a whiz at mental states and emotions, too.
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The day I learned to make chicken relleno, my lola laid out two cutting boards and a set of battered but carefully sharpened knives.
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Obviously, a tight turnaround after Adelaide but I sharpened up at the start of the second set and did what I needed to do.
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The rampage ends with the Trump character jamming a sharpened stake through the neck of a man with CNN's logo superimposed over his face.
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In particular, the question of who owns identity — who has a right to depict whom, and how — has sharpened in the past few years.
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A recent slump in global lithium prices, caused by growth in supply outstripping demand, has sharpened the incentive to move up the value chain.
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And in other races throughout the country, where the dynamics of the intra-party squabbles vary, national and local Democrats have sharpened their elbows.
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We woke around 5 am and refilled our water, ate, and sharpened our tools in the dark, using the yellow circle of our headlamps.
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Musk, by tweeting then withdrawing plans to take Tesla private, has sharpened doubts about the company's ability to keep expanding and updating its lineup.
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The Brexit Party has a cadre of battle-hardened young Brexiteers who understand the digital world and who sharpened their campaigning skills in the referendum.
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The increasing congruence of ideology and partisanship has so sharpened the divide that 9 in 10 Democrats and Republicans now routinely back their party's nominee.
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This season, the look is neutral, pouty, and well-defined — something can only be achieved with the skinny, sharpened precision of a good lip liner.
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Shaw has, via two recent billion-dollar-plus deals, sharpened its focus on selling access to broadband data, whether delivered via cable or wireless connections.
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She should be the girl who sits in the front row of a classroom with a line of freshly sharpened patterned pencils, for goodness sake.
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Tinder, meanwhile, is preparing to launch its "lite" version as part of its "sharpened focus on the APAC region," the company's CEO, Elie Seidman, said.
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Without sharpened teeth on the chain the saw will be hard-pressed to cut even softened butter, but the miniature replica is no less impressive.
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Intuition is sharpened during these days, so listen to your feelings and, when in doubt, wait until you're sure of the right course of action.
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In Sweden, the liberal Centre Party, which has recently sharpened its anti-nationalist identity, is polling near 12%, double its result in the last election.
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As Senator Ted Cruz of Texas has gained steam in Iowa polls recently, the elder Mr. Trump has sharpened his language about his main rival.
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Merkel had sharpened her rhetoric in the build-up to this month's German national vote and said on Sunday Turkey should not become a member.
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This may seem like typical behavior for a bloated corporation, but to a mind sharpened by the wisdom of Sun Tzu, it represents an opening.
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She urged her fellow Protestants not to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's revolt against Catholic authority in a way that sharpened sectarian differences.
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Home Depot, however, has already sharpened its focus on professionals, helping the company post strong sales in recent quarters amid a robust U.S. housing market.
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Valeant has sharpened its focus on more profitable products including its Bausch and Lomb eye care line, treatments for gastrointestinal diseases and its dermatological business.
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Tujia, which includes Expedia-owned HomeAway, claims 400,000 listings and a focus sharpened on the Chinese market, both in terms of customers and home owners.
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He would not be told what to do or what to believe: a view sharpened by his homosexuality, at a time when it was illegal.
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But what this photographer had done in telling the story, he had sharpened the photo beyond belief, and I thought that was over the top.
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The Senate health-care bill has sharpened the central political question surrounding the 2017 Republican agenda: Will the voters who made Donald Trump president rebel?
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Follow This said Shell's ambition to halve overall emissions by 2050 needed to be "sharpened" in order to be aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement.
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When he had a bad stream, his disappointment was sharpened by harsh criticism from viewers, the people who seemed to care the most about him.
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Producer John Agnello has sharpened the tone, made the vocal harmonies more present, and allowed Kyle's drums to lose some bombast and therefore drive harder.
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The dispute sharpened on Thursday when, according to Russia's Tass news agency, Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov canceled a trip to Athens scheduled for September.
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The conflict has been sharpened by the newfound success of Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party, which held an upbeat conference last week.
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Bright green broccoli is tossed with grated Cheddar, almonds, apples and very delicate puffs of pork skin, all of them sharpened by preserved-lemon vinaigrette.
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He never completed a degree, but while traveling in France, he met and had influential experiences with sculptors, which sharpened his focus on sculpture art.
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Corrosion works best if it exploits existing fissures and cracks, or "contradictions," that can be "deepened" or "sharpened," in the jargon of active measures planners.
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He sharpened his message against Mr. Gillum, portraying him as a corrupt radical whose proposals were out of step with the values of most Floridians.
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Coates even moved for a time to France, as Baldwin did, and Coates's expatriate distance only sharpened his view of the goings-on at home.
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His fledgling newspaper, The North Star, served as the school where he sharpened his grasp of politics and developed a penetrating style as an editorialist.
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The provision was modified a number of times over the years, and was sharpened in the Nazi era, when it was much more strictly enforced.
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The Michigan lawmaker, who has long been one of Trump's most vocal conservative critics, admits that partisanship would have sharpened his attacks in years past.
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Politicians and analysts on both sides, though, agree that the upheaval in Hong Kong sharpened the focus on China's role and reversed Ms. Tsai's fortunes.
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But last year he sharpened his game on hardcourts, playing with a well-honed aggression, winning at Indian Wells and making the finals in London.
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Pelosi, who sharpened her rhetoric over the weekend, is still not committing to moving forward with impeachment proceedings -- but she is feeling the tide turn.
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EU laws were sharpened during the sovereign debt crisis of 2010-2015 - which nearly destroyed the euro - to give numerical targets for annual debt reduction.
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This year, Block sharpened its technology — it even beat TurboTax on a critical task, uploading a prior year's return — while TurboTax improved its telephone helpline.
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But he also sharpened a darker narrative, sharing grisly stories of rape, murder and other crimes he said were committed by undocumented immigrants in Pennsylvania.
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He thinks a positive message can win in the state where Karl Rove sharpened political long knives and attack tactics to elect the entire government.
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President Donald Trump and his administration have sharpened attacks on middlemen and looked into revoking their ability to negotiate rebates, or discounts, with drug manufacturers.
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And Christie, who also needs a solid New Hampshire showing to continue on, sharpened the tone of the insults he's been throwing Rubio's way for months.
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The scalloped outline of Angkor Wat had a way of making itself known in the darkness, and only sharpened as the sun peeked over the horizon.
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Her delivery is a full-body retch, forcing sharpened syllables out of a serrated throat atop breakneck grind parts and blink-and-you'll-miss-it breakdowns.
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Inmates identified him as the one who grabbed the guard from behind while others stabbed Miller with a lawnmower blade and a hand-sharpened prison knife.
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Maybe my inability to get the knives sharpened is less about being lazy and more about being too good, for too long, at being a millennial.
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That conclusion, sharpened by the failure of elected Republicans to resist the president's pandering to Vladimir Putin, has forced Never Trumpers to a moment of reckoning.
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In the example above, the photo taken with the iPhone is brighter and just looks a lot more natural than the Huawei's severely over-sharpened photo.
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Mr Weber has sharpened his language, on March 5th threatening Fidesz with expulsion unless it stops the posters, apologises and lets the CEU remain in Budapest.
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Page 101:Ording's design animations, embedded since the earliest days sharpened by Chaudhri's sense of style, might be one reason we're all so hooked on smartphones.
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Trump's victory and opening comments have sharpened a debate about the austerity consensus that has prevailed across most of the developed world since the financial crisis.
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"Usually, eventually the voters make good decisions and democracy works," replied Obama, whose criticism of Trump has sharpened since he all but clinched the Republican nomination.
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The Trump administration has sharpened its trade rhetoric against Canada recently, after President Donald Trump spent most of his campaign directing his ire at Mexico instead.
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The senator from Texas also sharpened his attacks on Trump's conservative credentials, linking the brash billionaire to disgraced New York politicians Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner.
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They are not the only executives taking a pass on Paris - where the outcry over "dieselgate" and weak emissions regulation has sharpened enthusiasm for electrified motoring.
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The other is the 1979 groove album Rockit, sharpened by two back-end songs skewering the racist society he'd striven so audaciously to integrate and enlighten.
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They cleaned up the background, sharpened the print on her pants, and exposed the image with Fong's face as the center to correct for the backlight.
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Last week, Barack Obama sharpened his pen and wrote a pithy post outlining the qualifications he seeks in a Supreme Court nominee to replace Antonin Scalia.
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He has sharpened his rhetoric from previous races, alleging Museveni has done little to address rampant corruption, high joblessness and Uganda's ill-equipped schools and hospitals.
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The company started out working exclusively with licensed taxis, and this example shows that competition with Uber clearly sharpened its business and helped shape its growth.
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Clinton, too, sharpened her tone on the threat Mr. Putin posed, distancing herself in her book "Hard Choices" from a "reset" widely seen as a failure.
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And despite Quinn's venom — sharpened by anger over her father's death — there's the sense that Quinn's gone through this herself and knows the drill by now.
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Human waste bubbled into cells; overheated buildings put inmates and officers on edge; gang members broke off pieces of the radiators and sharpened them into weapons.
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When he joined XL, in 2006, at the age of twenty, he had excellent musical taste, but he quickly learned to soften his club-sharpened manner.
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An aide tells us Trump's views on trade only sharpened on the campaign trail as he spent time meeting unemployed factory workers in Rust Belt towns.
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At least this time around, the consequences for the 47-year-old Arquette will not be as grave, unless of course the clippers haven't been sharpened.
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An article Wednesday about the trend of upscale restaurants serving smaller dishes that are designed to be shared brought out the sharpened tongues of Times readers.
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When he stipples a surface, he seems to be doing it at the absolute of what can be achieved with a razor-sharpened point of graphite.
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At many moments he surprised me, despite my repeat viewings, with new melismas and spins on lyrics that sharpened the story to a slightly different point.
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Def Leppard may be this year's equivalent, a hugely popular act that sharpened hard rock with pop formulaics, in the process earning the scorn of critics.
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But last month, Biden sharpened his rhetoric against China, calling for the United States to "get tough on China" to stop the country's "abusive" economic policies.
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But China has resisted choking off trade with North Korea, and debate over how to balance Pyongyang, Seoul and Washington has sharpened and become more fractious.
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With the help of the team's director of mental conditioning, Chad Bohling, Sanchez has sharpened his attention, one of the factors behind his resurgent 2019 season.
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The government has sharpened its focus on ensuring that revenues from the cap-and-trade program benefit disadvantaged communities, but environmental justice remains a critical concern.
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As belts with sharpened buckles were swung, Johnny Alfred, our team's best black running back, grabbed Coleman, our top white back, and pulled him to safety.
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The cave's Neanderthal inhabitants had sharpened or modified many of the shells into thin cutting tools, similar to how they had chipped flint into stone blades.
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Recent news stories about Big Tech access to health data, such as Google's arrangement with the Ascension health system, have sharpened the edge of this critique.
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And in the weeks that followed, with the election looking more winnable, former aides say Mr. Bloomberg approached the race with a sharpened sense of purpose.
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The inquiry into Amazon's practices shows how European authorities have sharpened their focus on companies that provide platforms that other businesses depend on to reach customers.
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In the years since her death, the true nature of Aaliyah's enormously consequential relationship with Kelly has only sharpened and grown more disturbing to the public.
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As the 21st century dawned, an obesity "epidemic" and mounting concern about climate change and animal welfare renewed and sharpened the argument about our dietary choices.
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Though museum collections have long housed clothing and accessories, the appeal of specialized fashion exhibits has sharpened thanks to digital media's democratization of the fashion industry.
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DOUBLE-ACT Boeing has also sharpened its sales offensive by deploying both Mounir and Commercial Airplanes CEO Kevin McAllister, a former General Electric executive steeped in analytics.
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In public statements Wednesday, government officials said protesters threw bricks and sharpened poles, but CNN only saw umbrellas, plastic bottles and plastic protective helmets used as projectiles.
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Clinton, after an expectedly wide margin of defeat in Wisconsin, sharpened her blows on Sanders, declaring he "hadn't done his homework" on a variety of presidential issues.
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Taking time for yourself to meditate before the wildness of the day sets in will help you approach the day with an open mind and sharpened intuition.
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Plans to turn the cathedral's opening into a moment of diplomatic togetherness, attended by the French and Russian presidents, foundered after the countries' row over Syria sharpened.
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Video chatting quality was surprisingly good — it still had the flat, sharpened look that accompanies every video chat, but looked better than the typical Facebook Messenger call.
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Each of his stump speeches has sharpened his attack lines about the Republican Party's presidential nominee, from his avoidance of paying taxes to his treatment of women.
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ICA sharpened its focus on asset sales last year and announced it would not pay $31 million due on an interest payment at the end of November.
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I had to lay my penis on a flat surface, and he tore a piece of my skin off with the sharpened lower part of a toothbrush.
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The conflict is one of the most serious flare-ups in years of chaos since the 2011 toppling of Gaddafi, and has sharpened Gulf divisions over Libya.
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As yet more Jewish blood is absorbed into the earth, we cannot allow these events to be sharpened into political spears to be hurled against political opponents.
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Angela Merkel has sharpened Germany's attack on US plans to toughen American sanctions on Russia, in a sign of the growing political divisions between Berlin and Washington.
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Bobby and Jahkhil both became interested in law enforcement as a career, which in turn sharpened their interest in college as a necessary step on that path.
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What has sharpened is the charge of anger throughout, explicit in certain pieces and more generally conveyed by the work's amped-up, retrograde-and-beyond camp style.
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With mitts sharpened in the world of western boxing, he carried on kickboxing and got to beat up a new generation on the Thai and international stage.
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Posted online, the pictures are automatically sharpened by the high-contrast settings of most social-media platforms, and further boosted by the backlit screens of our devices.
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He still led the Rockies in strikeouts, with 168, but he sharpened his approach and raised his on-base-plus-slugging percentage by 150 points, to .915.
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When it comes to straight-up fiction, though, very few films, books, or TV shows examine climate change with such a sharpened sense of accuracy and actionability.
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Mr. Amrussi said the store had sold an ax about two weeks ago to a man who came in and asked if the blade could be sharpened.
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Then, in the next nine hours before death, he descended the mountain, sharpened his end-scraper and borer and probably worked on his bow and arrow shafts.
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It has sharpened the usual freshman-year doubts about how they ended up among the less than 5 percent of applicants chosen from a pool of 42,749.
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My skills sharpened, and I left every class with a goofy smile on my face — I was doing something I never thought I would or even could.
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Undeterred, the man "stepped out of the igloo, defecated, and honed the feces into a frozen blade, which he sharpened with a spray of saliva," Davis wrote.
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European Union leaders failed on Friday to agree on a next seven-year budget, as a funding shortfall created by Britain's departure sharpened debate over spending priorities.
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Their role has been streamlined and their command sharpened under Xi. 'IT'S TOO RISKY' The PAP also has been active in southern China, close to Hong Kong.
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Repeated trips to Iowa can allow long-shot candidates to become better known among voters there, but top-tier candidates can also benefit from a sharpened message.
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As the Chinese government accelerates its crackdown on Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters, the Trump administration has sharpened its view of the world's most important bilateral relationship.
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"President Trump's personal involvement in the F-35 program accelerated the negotiations and sharpened our focus on driving down the price," the company said in a statement.
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Instead of answering the questions about the money and its possible links to a heavily indebted Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, the attorney general's announcement has only sharpened them.
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Analysts said the pace of discussion on remaining issues had quickened this year, as the U.S.-China trade war sharpened concerns over both economic growth and regional security.
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"Present to your prospective employer how you've stayed relevant through what you've learned from your break or how you've sharpened your skills during the career break," Torrens said.
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"It sounds like pencils are being sharpened in order to revise up first-quarter GDP forecasts," said Jennifer Lee, a senior economist at BMO Capital Markets in Toronto.
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Sensing a chance to broaden their scope, far-right and far-left parties sharpened their criticism of the EU, and Eurosceptic parties became more radical on other issues.
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Last February, Auntie Fee did a video where she sharpened knives, wore one of her own hats, and talked about everything that was going on in her life.
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"I worked with an Italian composer Robert Solci every day for the month and half leading up to the movie, and sharpened those skills up," Chalamet told Newsweek.
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Mr. Cruz received 27 percent of support in Iowa, while Mr. Trump, who has sharpened his attacks on the senator from Texas in recent weeks, got 23 percent.
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And those differences have sharpened as low prices have split OPEC and tensions have increased between Saudis and Iranians over sectarian conflicts in places like Yemen and Syria.
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Chief Executive Ulrich Spiesshofer said ABB had sharpened its focus on the industrial side of its business, providing better profit margins, lower risk and less volatility in future.
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A U.N. report detailed 17 types of torture used by the government, including driving sharpened steel rods into the legs of victims and dripping melted plastic on them.
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Alex Alonso, senior vice president of knowledge development at Society for Human Resource Management, thinks employers have sharpened their focus in this area since the survey was conducted.
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In order to avoid coming into contact with a sharpened pencil, every defense contractor had better start proactively communicating the value of the products and services they offer.
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The darts that injured the pedestrians were about 5 inches long, with one end sharpened to a fine point, the California Highway Patrol said in a news release.
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A year ago I brushed down my tweed jacket, sharpened my pencils, and moved from London to Copenhagen to work as a freelance opera and classical music critic.
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Donald Trump's candidacy was formed and sharpened by an angry and embittered GOP electorate who was sick of their own party, of Washington, of the media, of everything.
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Analysts said the pace of discussion on remaining issues had quickened this year, as the U.S.-China trade war sharpened concerns over both economic growth and regional security.
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They punctured the bags with the sharpened tips of theirs umbrellas and left them on baggage racks or the floor to seep the deadly gas into the carriages.
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Tractor Supply has sharpened its focus on providing expertise by actively posting vidoes and tipsheets online about raising chickens, how to groom horses, and how to fence goats.
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He came up from perdition itself, two years at Arkansas and four toiling in obscurity in Europe; the exile sharpened his spirit, tempered it with fire and ice.
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Mr. Biden later sharpened his words about the segregationists, but defended his long record on civil rights and lashed out at the Democratic rivals who condemned his remarks.
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Since then, militants have shifted their operations from the north toward the more densely populated center of the country, where they have sharpened ancient rivalries and ethnic conflicts.
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At the same time, aid agencies sharpened criticism of the Saudi coalition over civilian suffering in the city, which the coalition has been threatening to invade for months.
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But tensions have also sharpened over a broad range of diplomatic and military issues, like Taiwan, the South China Sea and economic sanctions on North Korea and Iran.
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The lingering economic insecurity has fired resentments, sharpened identity politics and fueled populism on the right and left that is upending hierarchies in the Democratic and Republican Parties.
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That Tony and Maria of "West Side Story" first fell in love as Sondheim sharpened his Blackwing pencils, finding the words for their doomed romance at age 25.
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U.S. stocks rose 29% in 2019, with the fourth quarter delivering a gain of nearly 9%, as a thawing of U.S.-China trade tensions sharpened investors' risk appetite.
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She hopes for reconciliation, but finds that his resentments and anxieties have hardened and sharpened into weapons to be turned on those he believes the Devil has corrupted.
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Scrutiny of the Trump family sharpened after _________ revealed that he'd met with a Kremlin-linked lawyer in June 2016 in hopes of unearthing incriminating information on Hillary Clinton.
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His father, Peter, sharpened his mental strength in table tennis by using put-downs as a form of gamesmanship to see if his son could hold his poise.
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So whether it's with expensive advertising, sharpened attacks on the leading candidates or retrenching to make their stand in a single state, the longshots are taking their shots.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who sharpened her rhetoric over the weekend, is still not committing to moving forward with impeachment proceedings -- though she is keeping the door open.
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"The fact is my vision of America is in some degree sharpened and to some degree clouded by my experiences of America at war," Mr. van Agtmael said.
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As Mr. Buttigieg has sharpened this critique, however, he has adopted a more aggressive tone himself — a sly bit of needle-threading that has coincided with his rise.
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Knives sharpened She went on to campaign against political rivals, even succeeding in sidelining some of them, including former Vice President Joice Mujuru and seven other government ministers.
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It's a side of Hillary Clinton sharpened by what you might call the default voice of Twitter: Sardonic, mildly bitter, unafraid to say what everyone else is thinking.
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With arguments Mr. Bowman sharpened in the private sector, the administration has prepared a detailed legal justification to convince courts that the rule is not arbitrary or capricious.
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All in all, it looks like 2018 has a lot of good things going for it, crosswordwise, so please keep those writing implements sharpened and those apps updated.
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But while this Eastern Conference gantlet might have sharpened their play, the Warriors' toughest challenge of the season will come Monday night against their Western Conference rival, the Spurs.
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There's a certain abstraction that comes with watching games you don't understand, and that baseline weirdness is accentuated and sharpened by the fundamental challenge of watching greatness in action.
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Large nicks or dents in the blade or areas where the blade is wearing thin can mean that you&aposll need to get the blade replaced, not just sharpened.
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This new iteration of "Picnic at Hanging Rock" offers a sharpened focus on female friendship and desire, but is most compelling in its approach to the book's colonial subtext.
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Cathay's ordeal has sharpened the conflicting pressures on multinationals in Hong Kong with business in the mainland: pleasing both authoritarian China and their democracy-loving staff in Hong Kong.
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The men were chasing Harris after he swung a heavy torch at white nationalist leader Harold Ray Crews, who appeared to be attacking Harris's friend with a sharpened flagpole.
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A spate of gang killings and car-burnings have sharpened concerns that authorities are losing control in poorer city suburbs where immigrants make up the majority of the population.
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An overnight rally in crude oil prices also sharpened investors' risk appetite, but caution before the July U.S. non-farm payrolls report later on Friday kept gains in check.
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Newell Brands said that the consolidation move will transform it from a holding company to an operating company with a new set of investment priorities and a sharpened portfolio.
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A prison official said on local radio that some of the inmates killed at the Anisio Jobim penitentiary on Sunday were choked, while others were stabbed with sharpened toothbrushes.
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The Fed left interest rates unchanged as widely expected, but further sharpened expectations for a year-end rate hike by highlighting "solid" economic growth and a strengthening labour market.
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Since taking over as chief executive in 2014, Satya Nadella has sharpened the company's focus on its cloud computing unit to counter a prolonged slowdown in the PC market.
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The rules were sharpened in 2011 to make financial sanctions for rule-breakers more automatic and harder to circumvent through political alliance-building as had happened in the past.
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U.S. lawmakers and officials have sharpened their focus on protecting the country from foreign cyberattacks after the U.S. intelligence community determined that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
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The threat has sharpened attention on the policies of Australia's conservative government to address climate change, which meteorologists have said was extending the length of the fire weather season.
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Hillary Clinton's lead in the delegate count — even as her rival, Senator Bernie Sanders, racks up win after win in state primaries and caucuses — has only sharpened the debate.
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The #MeToo movement, sharpened by the outcry against the elevation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, has also prompted many discussions of "toxic masculinity" in the public sphere.
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The furor is erupting at a sensitive time for Okinawa, and for Japan, and the growing wealth and power of China has sharpened the debate about the island's future.
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Mr. Giuliani had no special tools, just a knowledge of porcine anatomy and a knife with a wickedly thin, long blade that he sharpened every 10 minutes or so.
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A long-term trend toward partisanship and the super-heated presidency of Donald Trump have sharpened a debate over what defines America and what it means to be patriotic.
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The tone of this race has drastically sharpened, but Democratic operatives say they aren't worried about any damage done by it — especially if Donald Trump is the Republican nominee.
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But there's no escaping that Woodward and Bernstein were talking to a largely Democrat audience -- an audience that believes the necessity of its profession has been sharpened by Trump.
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Mr. Rivera later claimed that Mr. Lightfoot had slashed him with a sharpened piece of metal, and Mr. Pollard produced the weapon that they said Mr. Lightfoot had used.
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But for all the excess energy, their songwriting had sharpened, to the point where it was no longer possible to dismiss them as a band only worth seeing live.
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Not so for the man behind "Artisanal Prison Shanks", an Instagram page that posts photos of knives cobbled together by prisoners out of HB pencils, toothbrushes and sharpened wood.
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When he cuts the resulting jello sheet into a floppy knife shape and dehydrates it, it became startlingly rigid—and ready to be sharpened on a series of whetstones.
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By the next day, in time for the start of "Hannity & Colmes," the material had been sharpened and refined into talking points he could fire at his Fox audience.
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The crisis in Syria sharpened Trump's desire to reduce the infighting and he is expected to make some staffing decisions soon, the Journal said, citing a senior administration official.
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Such grandeur is the territory where "War Horse" lives, though that show freed the imagination — and sharpened it — by using intricate, galloping, large-scale puppets to play its animals.
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Warren is focusing on Super Tuesday states, and Warren in Seattle on Saturday night sharpened her criticism of Sanders over his support for keeping the Senate's filibuster in place.
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The sword had been sharpened to a fine point by the time Troy Price finally fell on it Wednesday evening, resigning as the chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party.
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It is where he discovered his affinity for drones, sharpened his belief in the limits of American intervention, battled his generals and hardened his disdain for unreliable foreign leaders.
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The reports, which used leaked official documents to reveal the coercive workings of the camps in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, sharpened international criticism of China's ruling Communist Party.
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That stint sharpened Press's media chops, pitting him against conservatives such as Tucker Carlson and Pat Buchanan before Press moved to MSNBC for a short-lived show alongside Buchanan.
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Looming over the race, as he does over the entire midterm landscape, is Mr. Trump, whose rhetoric on race and identity has sharpened the nation's divisions, especially of late.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads VENICE — In face of Cambridge Analytica and Facebook's privacy pirating scandal, a sharpened desire to conceal the cultural markers of 'self' has surfaced.
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Once a more moderate Democrat during her time serving as a Congresswoman for rural upstate New York, she has since sharpened her political priorities, including a push for gun reform.
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In the rematch Ward had sharpened up some on the outside but was also flowing into the inside game to attack the body with both hands to slow Kovalev down.
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Italian and other politicians across the 0.23-nation bloc have sharpened their rhetoric ahead of elections to the European Parliament being held in all EU countries on May 20.2-22020.
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He sharpened his tone after the Senate upended its filibuster rules to seat Justice Gorsuch: "The new justice is not a Republican and not a Democrat," he said in April.
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But an unwritten rule has generally kept the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from employing an M.C. who has sharpened his or her teeth at the competing Globes.
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Obama has sharpened his criticism of Trump and other Republicans in recent weeks, calling the tone of the GOP presidential race "vulgar" while suggesting it is harming America's reputation abroad.
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Greenville, North Carolina (CNN)Donald Trump argued Tuesday that Hillary Clinton's email use and her handling of classified information is "disqualifying" as he sharpened his attacks on the Democratic nominee.
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Ramsey recommends avoiding this kitchen mistake by spending a few extra dollars and getting your knives professionally sharpened, as it&aposs super easy to accidentally chip or break the blade.
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After the Treasury sharpened sanctions against Russia in April, Rusal, a large aluminium producer, was frozen out of financial markets even though it does little of its business in America.
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Those fears are sharpened because Trump has used Mexico-bashing to fire up his base on repeated occasions since kicking off his first campaign for the White House in 2015.
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Pitted, unpolished, and gleaming, with their elongated noses sharpened into scythes, they are African, Cycladic, Romanesque, and otherworldly all at once, relics from another dimension and caricatures of the gods.
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And I know this sounds absurdly California New Age hippie, but I could almost feel my chakras opening—my creativity felt easy and natural, and my instincts sharpened into intuition.
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A display case reveals a collection of his working tools — sharpened sticks, string, wads of tissue and shards of glass — as well as three of the many books he produced.
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It helps, of course, that Kongphan is also a highly skilled gamer, his reflexes sharpened by thousands of hours of practice and enhanced by a diet of his own devising.
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In the water, hundreds of rusting, sharpened steel barricades point menacingly toward the bustling Chinese city of Xiamen, whose skyscrapers poke through the midday haze just over three miles away.
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Divisions between rival Orthodox factions have sharpened in Ukraine since Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the outbreak of a Kremlin-backed separatist insurgency in the eastern Donbass region.
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The expansion was denounced by Republicans, and it sharpened a contrast with Donald J. Trump, who has centered much of his presidential campaign on a call to shut out immigrants.
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A string of similar attacks in the years since has sharpened fears about the spread of Hindu nationalism in a country that is home to more than 170 million Muslims.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has also sharpened her attacks against the Senate's $2023 billion package, with hopes of raising the total amount of money closer to Obama's full request.
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Its concern sharpened after a whistleblower alleged that Cambridge Analytica gathered personal information from up to 50m Facebook users and used it to target voters in the US presidential election.
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Nearby, a man I would later learn is a prominent local vampire and ghost tour guide scrolls through his iPhone 6, tapping the screen with Nosferatu-like sharpened black fingernails.
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They held my hands and feet, and they closed my eyes, and an old woman began to cut me with sharpened stone knives—there were no anesthetic or sterilization processes.
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The lira's plunge has sharpened investor concern about the outlook for Turkish companies, which may struggle to repay some $223 billion of debt they have raised in dollar and euros.
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A string of similar attacks in the years since have sharpened fears about the spread of Hindu nationalism in a country that is home to more than 170 million Muslims.
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The references are updated (there's a Chris Ofili poster on the wall), and the politics sharpened (the dominant colors are the red, black and green of the Pan-African flag).
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The groups have quickly sharpened their focus on the states after losing a bitter fight against the nomination of Justice Kavanaugh, whom they portrayed as a threat to Roe v.
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As Mr. Bannon sharpened his critique of China's rise, he also began meeting privately with some of America's leading experts on China, to seek their counsel and outline his agenda.
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Those buds can then be sharpened into canines or incisors for slicing into flesh, or flattened and sculpted into molars with any number of cusps for processing high-fiber plants.
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"No other director of the present has sharpened and stirred up my perception through his films like Michael Haneke," Nico Hoffman, the UFA Fiction chief executive, said in a statement.
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In court, Sergeant Bergdahl gave details about his captivity, saying that he had once used a nail sharpened with a rock to pick the locks on his shackles and escape.
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He notably sharpened his contrast with Mr. Sanders and Mr. Bloomberg, who has vied to take over the moderate lane the former vice president occupied for virtually all of 2019.
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In 2015, the paper's publisher, Austin Beutner, was fired after only a year in the job, a move that sharpened divisions between The Times and its Chicago-based parent company.
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He seemed poised to join a new wave of economic or political exiles that has flowed from Russia as Mr. Putin's attitude and policies toward the West have sharpened significantly.
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We discovered through our research that it was vital to handle the fish with a well-sharpened chef's knife, and not the blunt instrument rattling around in my silverware drawer.
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" In the 1630 plague, told so searingly by Manzoni, the sick were sent to a complex called the Lazzaretto, and "dread of sequestration and the Lazzaretto sharpened every one's wits.
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He was, and not for the novelty of hitting off a 3,000-hit batter, but because he had legitimately sharpened his ability to pitch batting practice, and players were noticing.
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He sharpened the message this week, first by returning to Fox News — the cable network partial to Trump and the Republican Party — for a town hall forum televised from Iowa.
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But now that people are getting back to work after the holidays and as the election looms, some remaining union supporters say the executive opposition has only sharpened their resolve.
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"I think what happened in Alexandria sharpened people's resolve to make sure this right is protected," said Representative Richard Hudson, Republican of North Carolina, who introduced the bill in January.
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Now in his third act in the industry with a newly-formed independent, he argues that geology itself is a constraint, investor demands have sharpened and technology is being oversold.
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Not so with Instagram, where lovingly styled "wrist shots" of vintage Omega Speedmasters or Heuer Autavias can be enhanced, sharpened and uploaded within seconds for all the world to see.
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A subdued version of that dynamic is mirrored in "Bombshell," with the sharpened ex-corporate lawyer Kelly drawn in contrast with the ethereal former Miss America, Gretchen Carlson (Nicole Kidman).
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Virgo season coincides with back-to-school season, and most of us love the feel of a new, clean notebook, the smell of a new backpack, and freshly sharpened pencils.
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In remarks that lasted more than 40 minutes, Mr. Trump also blended his standard recitation of strong poll numbers with sharpened attack lines against Mr. Cruz, his top competitor in Iowa.
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Mexican Americans, in contrast, are part of an ethnic community that until recently was constantly being replenished by new Mexican arrivals, which in turn has sharpened the distinctiveness of Mexican identity.
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In recent weeks, Buttigieg has sharpened his criticism of Warren, primarily over her support for "Medicare for All," as he pitches himself as a non-Biden moderate alternative to progressive candidates.
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Style without substance is ultimately a dulled weapon; bands like Sarparast, who back up their incisive lyrics with sharpened riffs, Juliet's vocals, and impeccably malevolent atmosphere, are how social rebellions start.
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Boeing and Embraer have denied any link between their discussions and October's decision by Airbus to buy Bombardier's struggling CSeries, although several sources say it sharpened the focus of the talks.
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The differences between moderates and conservatives aren't new -- those disagreements have threatened to derail a host of Republican priorities before -- but the campaign to repeal Obamacare has only sharpened those divisions.
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Amid an escalating federal investigation into individuals in the Trump orbit, Clinton has sharpened those allegations in public appearances, seeming to grow more confident that she will be vindicated by facts.
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One can imagine that Castle's perceptions were guided by willful, directed attention — and, of course, the sharpened perceptions of an eye that must account for almost all impressions of the world.
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The previous fall in prices has highlighted for all members the consequences of failing to reach a realistic agreement by the end of the month and sharpened the incentives to compromise.
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In addition to structural factors, coal producers were hit by the warmest winter on record in 2015/16, which sharpened gas-on-coal competition, with coal the biggest loser (tmsnrt.rs/2ehrWvH).
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For two more days in A-Pod, Audemio waited out the nights sitting up in his bunk with his back to the wall, clutching sharpened spoons in each of his fists.
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Weak equities sharpened investor appetite for low-risk government debt and 10-year German Bund yields hit 10-month lows after data showed deflation returned to the euro zone this month.
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Sometimes it'll just be a look that Glenda Jackson gave, or the way Laurie Metcalf was standing in a particular scene, or how Alison Pill's face sharpened when delivering a line.
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Just by heating up the end on the handle you can shape it into anything, put a small sharpened piece of metal into it, and boom: a shank with a handle.
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Although the AU first proposed the idea for an African health agency in 2013, the Ebola epidemic in 2014-2015 sharpened its urgency and accelerated the planning, according to people involved.
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A better reason to consider the Pixel 3 is its impressive ability to take so-called portrait mode photos, those DSLR-like images with a gently blurred background and sharpened foreground.
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Clark gives the idea a promotion by shaping little balls from mashed fish, potatoes and espelette pepper, frying them and mounting the orbs on a bright parsley pesto sharpened with capers.
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Over the years, the company acquired brands like Jimmy Choo, Bally and Belstaff, only to sell them off as it sharpened its focus on the more profitable food and coffee sectors.
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He came out of his net to dive at opposing players on breakaways, exposing his face to their sharpened skates as he wielded his stick to poke-check the puck away.
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Pence's speech marked a sharpened U.S. approach toward China, going beyond the bitter trade war between the world's two biggest economies, which has magnified concerns about the outlook for China's economy.
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Mr. Quarles's diplomatic skills — which he sharpened as the U.S. Treasury's assistant secretary for international affairs between 2002 and 2005 — will be just as important as his experience of financial regulation.
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Why it matters: McConnell, the most powerful Republican in the Senate, has sharpened his criticism for President Trump's actions in Syria one day after the U.S. reached a cease-fire agreement.
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As the film progresses, his drawing becomes even more inventive, including a sketch that uses shavings from a sharpened pencil as a kind of pop-up crown for a regal figure.
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"Discontent deepened and sharpened partisan conflicts" in recent years, Bush said in remarks from New York City at a forum focused on security and sponsored by the George W. Bush Institute.
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The way the Democratic candidates talk about "Medicare for All" has shifted and sharpened over the course of the campaign — and Medicare for All has gotten less popular in the process.
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If anything, he looks a little puffy and scared, as if Angelina Jolie were hiding around the corner of the set, with full Maleficent makeup and sharpened claws, preparing to pounce.
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But he stopped short of saying that the two sides were ready to resume long-stalled negotiations at a time of sharpened North Korean rhetoric and a lack of diplomatic progress.
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His gear consisted of a large drill, with an engine the size of an outboard motor, and the drill bit, a clear, sharpened tube that could be driven into the ice.
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The vibrant colors of her mural recall oil pastels and bouquets of freshly sharpened pencils (as Tom Hanks would say), and share a clear affinity with the work of Lynda Benglis.
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They enlisted one of their idols, Jawbox alum J. Robbins, to produce the record, which resulted in a sharpened coherence in songwriting and a vastly improved sound over their last album.
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After the Mutant leader is put in jail, he tears out the throat of Gotham's mayor, one of the story's many ineffectual social and political elites, using his file-sharpened teeth.
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Newspapers, some financial experts and opposition politicians rounded on the government on Thursday, with criticism sharpened by separate data showing the economy had slowed to its weakest growth rate in three years.
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The deteriorating sugar market has also sharpened tensions among Tereos' farmer shareholders and the group last week announced the expulsion of three members following a public spat over the group's diversification strategy.
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According to the report, Chinese spies placed microchips the size of a sharpened pencil tip in the Chinese-manufactured servers of one of the most prolific server-providers in the world, Supermicro.
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On March 20, 1995, members of the cult carried plastic bags filled with sarin and umbrellas with sharpened tips onto the subway lines passing under the political district in the capital city.
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However, when prices have moved above that level, Trump has sharpened his criticism, singling out Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, and noting that they benefit from an expensive U.S. security umbrella.
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We will go out with our flashers and orange gloves and sharpened hooks and hunt salmon, tricking them onto dry land, as people here have done for thousands of years before us.
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That Jenkins and her leading woman Gadot sharpened a story that was considered too "tricky" and "challenging" just a few years ago into something that's quite brilliant is an accomplishment in itself.
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With Mercury in your sign until April, expect everyone else to be on the same wily metaphysical page as you—your sharpened mind now allows for an astute explanation of the unexplainable.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Focus has sharpened on how exchange-traded bond funds react to market shocks after recent wobbles showed some performing out of line with the assets they are designed to mirror.
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RELATED: Trump responds to Hitler comparison Trump has sharpened his attacks on Cruz as the Texas senator has recently beat him in several states and has emerged as his top Republican challenger.
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READ: Hillary Clinton: 'Absolutely' nothing to hide in Wall Street speech transcripts Even if he doesn't prevail, Sanders has been the stone against which Clinton has honed and sharpened her own candidacy.
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Finally, with spot prices and calendar spreads coming under pressure, the incentive for fund managers to realise some profits after the previous rally has sharpened, and the liquidation has become self-fulfilling.
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"I do think the European experience will have sharpened minds," Guy Ryder, head of the International Labor Organization (ILO), told The Associated Press while visiting Jordan, one of the struggling host countries.
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Senator Ted Cruz continues to peel Republican delegates away from Mr. Trump at state conventions across the country, and Senator Bernie Sanders, the democratic socialist who has sharpened his tone against Mrs.
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The military operation has sharpened the tension between Suu Kyi's civilian administration and the army, which ruled the country for decades and retains key powers, including control of ministries responsible for security.
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Two influential Federal Reserve officials sharpened the public case for acting to support the U.S. economy on Thursday, reviving bets the central bank may deliver a larger-than-expected cut this month.
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LISBON (Reuters) - Energy shortages in Portugal sharpened on Wednesday as a strike by fuel-tanker drivers entered its third day in the worst industrial unrest of the Socialist government's four-year rule.
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They chatted among themselves, fanning one another with torn bits of cardboard in the close, sticky corridor and examining their nails, which had been sharpened to talons and encrusted with miniature gems.
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ATLANTA — Hurricane Michael strengthened and sharpened its track toward the Florida Panhandle on Monday, imperiling a vast stretch of the state that must cope with the threat of a suddenly menacing storm.
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The debate has sharpened recently amid accusations that Senator Sam Dastyari of the opposition Labor Party hewed to Chinese foreign policy on some issues after accepting money from Chinese-born political donors.
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The episode has sharpened focus on whether Mahathir will stick to a promise before last year's general election to hand over power to Anwar, and the potential for political instability in Malaysia.
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Threatened with sinking into casino-act irrelevance over the next two decades, and at one point struggling with drug and alcohol problems, he sharpened his artistic focus, concentrating on American Songbook standards.
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Flutter has sharpened its focus on North America as the potentially huge U.S. market opens up and it faces higher taxes and increased regulations in its main British, Irish and Australian markets.
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His rock-ribbed conservatism was forged in the deep poverty and isolation of rural Alabama, sharpened during 16 years as a federal prosecutor and state attorney general and polished as a senator.
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European markets ended on a mixed note at Tuesday's close, with risk appetite sharpened by news the U.S. and Mexico had reached a deal to overhaul the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Brittany Combs, a public health nurse whose grandfather came from Hazard, told me addicts had been using ditch or toilet water for needles sharpened with nail files and shared by 15 people.
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It appears that the first lady might have taken design control in the East Colonnade, where silver stars, their points sharpened to a glinting razor's edge, float menacingly above lit glass panels.
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She sharpened up her hands and got a little more cautious, while still getting after opponents on her own terms and in 20163 we awarded her the Slacky for Technical Turn-Around.
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The infighting among lawyers for the plaintiffs suing General Motors over a flawed ignition switch intensified after one who helped uncover the defect sharpened his attacks against another who is heading the case.
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After turning aluminum foil into an functional blade, Japan's most talented knife maker has now demonstrated how a roll of regular food wrap can be hardened, sharpened, and used to slice and dice.
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To go from flexible food-preserving sheets to a block of plastic that can be shaped and sharpened just requires the addition of a lot of heat to melt and solidify the roll.
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Origin also sharpened its target for cutting costs at its Australia Pacific liquefied natural gas (APLNG) project, aiming to break even at $45 a barrel by June, down from a target of $48.
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This mutual wariness—sharpened almost to enmity in the wake of the election—did not make life easy for Campbell Brown when she started her new job running the nascent Facebook Journalism Project.
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Those divides sharpened with Trump willing to sign legislation and estimates by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office that each GOP bill would cause more than 20 million people to become uninsured by 2026.
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Retaining and recruiting talented technical personnel has become a top national security priority in recent years as Russia, China, Iran and other nation states and criminal groups have sharpened their cyber offensive abilities.
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Getting rid of the jack also increased room for stereo speakers, and Apple sharpened the technology on most features, from the camera to a pressure-sensitive home button to a boost in memory.
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Citi's sharpened focus on its Asia equities business, which includes stock trading and research, is part of its global effort to bolster trading technology, hire senior bankers and boost financing to hedge funds.
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The link between ecological decline, political unrest and migration has sharpened minds since civil war erupted in neighbouring Syria, where a three-year drought helped fuel revolt against Bashar al-Assad, the president.
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The stainless steel blade on W.R. Case & Son' s reproduction extends almost 12 inches from the handle, with a sharpened edge on one side and a saw blade covering most of the spine.
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The information paradox "has sharpened the challenge of what we need to confront to understand quantum gravity," said Raphael Bousso, a theoretical physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, who was Hawking's protégé.
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They were eager to downplay late momentum by Rubio in the Hawkeye State, telling reporters that he would finish in a weak third place at best even as the candidate sharpened his rhetoric.
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"Although the proposed spin at Old Navy will enable a sharpened strategic focus on its business priorities, it reduces the diversification the brand provides to the overall entity," said Moody's analyst Christina Boni.
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Inflows into gold-backed exchange-traded funds (ETFs), holdings of which have already risen this year by more than they fell in the whole of 2015, showed investor appetite has sharpened, analysts said.
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Also on Thursday, two influential Federal Reserve officials sharpened the public case for acting to support the U.S. economy, reviving bets the central bank may deliver a larger-than-expected cut this month.
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The company's higher expenses come at a time when many U.S. banks have sharpened focus on cost-cutting efforts to boost profits in a low interest rate environment and amid sluggish loan growth.
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The current threat has sharpened attention on the polices of Australia's conservative government to address climate change, which the country's weather bureau has said is extending the length of the fire weather season.
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More fighters, both inspired homegrown extremists and those trained and sharpened by battle abroad, will continue to perpetrate a range of attacks from vehicle-borne assaults to more complex attacks on multiple targets.
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I also discovered that my earning potential had nearly doubled — thanks in no small part to the time-management and multitasking skills I'd sharpened during my tenure as a stay-at-home mom.
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After all the lies he told, all the fantasy he indulged in, all the hate he spewed and all the divisions he sharpened, he was rewarded with the highest office in the land.
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These policies have predictably sharpened the state's partisan divide, but they have also more unexpectedly created a rift between what used to be the Republican Party's most durable bases: social conservatives and business.
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A sharpened nugget of stoner wisdom from VICE's own resident drug expert, Hamilton Morris, is the foundation for Kelsey Brookes' new book, show, and print series presented by Quint Gallery titled Psychedelic Space.
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A machine with a blade sharpened to be 100 percent flat and accurate is worked over the ice in pre-determined patterns known as 'scraping' to ensure that the surface is completely level.
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Although Taiwan holds exercises regularly, the latest war games sharpened their focus on combat readiness as Chinese President Xi Jinping heightens pressure on the self-ruled and democratic island of 23 million people.
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For Sinai experts, the assault sharpened scrutiny of Egypt's counterinsurgency tactics against a dogged Islamist insurgency that has surged in strength since 2013, after Mr. Sisi came to power in a military takeover.
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He deftly sharpened an eight-inch knife against a water stone before plunging it into the silver-scaled fish and sawing off the collar, using another, bigger knife to lop off the bone.
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To be fair, Cohen has earned a pretty obsessed following in part because of her finely sharpened first impression, that of a preposterously preening, rigorously self-regarding, sexually arrogant diva in Lululemon leggings.
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I wrote from Grand Rapids on Monday about how Sanders had sharpened his attacks on Biden's record related to abortion rights in an unsuccessful effort to prevent women from coalescing behind Biden. 4.
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But Mr. Comey's testimony on Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee sharpened obstruction-of-justice questions while refocusing them on an earlier conversation Mr. Comey said he had with Mr. Trump on Feb.
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At campaign stops over the past few days, Mr. Biden has not overhauled his message or unleashed sharpened attacks on his rivals, though he has put a fresh emphasis on certain key issues.
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It was a seminal period for the team, which has pointed back to those games as a trial that brought the locker room closer together, helped forge its identity and sharpened its focus.
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But the impeachment inquiry has cast a shadow over Trump's already tumultuous presidency and sharpened a divide among Americans that is likely to intensify as election campaigning heats up in the coming weeks.
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The lagging pace of wage growth has sharpened debates about whether Nevada's boom-and-bust economy is growing sustainably this time, or building another bubble that will hurt the poorest when it bursts.
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So, she vowed to only shop at thrift stores, where she scooped up funny fleeces and cheerful sundresses, and sharpened an eye for seeing the potential in what most others would consider trash.
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But the impeachment inquiry has cast a shadow over Trump's already tumultuous presidency and sharpened the divide among Americans that is likely to intensify as election campaigning heats up in the coming weeks.
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Alejandro Cruz, whom Seidler had hired as a cook, sharpened his knives and sliced along the spine of a pink slab of trout from Lake Titicaca, a few hours north of La Paz.
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Even as campaign veteran Hope Hicks announced her resignation from the administration on Wednesday, President Donald Trump sharpened his ongoing attacks against another longtime loyalist in the White House – Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Shaun buried himself in cookbooks, sharpened and resharpened all the knives, practiced his garde manger skills and lived for parents' visiting days, when we had huge and elaborate banquet meals to prep for.
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Shaun buried himself in cookbooks, sharpened and resharpened all the knives, practiced his garde manger skills and lived for parents' visiting days, when we had huge and elaborate banquet meals to prep for.
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Scrutiny of the family sharpened after his son Donald Trump Jr., above, revealed that he'd met with a Kremlin-linked lawyer in June 29 in hopes of unearthing incriminating information on Hillary Clinton.
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Salim member nearly killed a guard by blinding him "with hot sauce that he had fashioned into a mace-like weapon" and then stabbing him in the eye with a sharpened plastic comb.
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I'm not a prison capo, exactly—I mean, I'm not going to win a fight against a kid with withdrawal symptom energy and a toothbrush sharpened into a shiv—but I do alright.
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"In that store, I developed and sharpened my design style and skills, grew as a business owner, and gained much needed confidence in Magnolia Market and myself," Joanna writes of the space on magnolia.com.
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Her charm, in turn, has sharpened, in a string of anger-filled performances starting with 2004's Closer; there's a severity to her recent onscreen roles that's tinged her sweetness with some welcome bitterness.
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But after Facebook suspended several of his pages and hundreds of others during a major purge of inauthentic accounts in October, he sharpened his identity as a crusader for American values, like free speech.
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Twitter sharpened its #ComeyDay knives, unleashing a torrent of live-tweets the likes of which is usually reserved for Game of Thrones finales, Oscar night disasters, or yes, highly anticipated reality show reunion specials.
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She had an innate feeling for the human body as an expressive form that was first sharpened by spending six months in London when she was 16, living with an aunt and studying drawing.
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Such resentments have sharpened since last year when France's president, Emmanuel Macron, denounced the acquisition of African art now lodged in French and other European museums and declared that it should be given back.
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In the example below, the Oppo F9 actually took a better photo than Huawei's P20 Pro, which applied a ton of its AI-assisted effects, resulting in an over-sharpened photo with unnatural colors.
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Also on Thursday, two influential Federal Reserve officials sharpened the public case for acting to support the U.S. economy, reviving bets the central bank may deliver a double-barreled interest rate cut this month.
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At the time, she wrote that she had been dealing with depression since middle school but that a sexual violation from a close confidante, whom she did not name, had sharpened her emotional challenges.
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Over the past five days, Trump has sharpened his rhetoric against Syria and its most powerful ally Russia and issued a threat via Twitter of a potential U.S. strike against the war-torn country.
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But the imbroglio over Ukraine has renewed, and even sharpened, the despair by revealing the way Trump administration officials were willing to withhold American aid until Ukraine committed to investigating the president's political enemies.
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For the last six days, Trump has sharpened his rhetoric against Syria and its most powerful ally Russia and issued a threat via Twitter of a potential U.S. strike against the war-torn country.
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Now high-resolution, next-generation sequencing has sharpened the view, and researchers are finding something surprising: About 20 percent of embryos have both normal and abnormal cells, and the percentage increases with maternal age.
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Today, instead of an apron, she is wearing a lab coat given to her by the craftspeople at the historic Louis Vuitton workshop in Asnières and her smile is sharpened by bright red lipstick.
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But the narcotics trade charge, leveled in a U.S. Treasury statement justifying sanctions on Socialist Party official Diosdado Cabello, sharpened Washington's accusations against Maduro as he prepares for Venezuela's controversial presidential elections on Sunday.
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In the indictment, however, prosecutors say he brought a "saw, sharpened screwdrivers, straps, strips and pipes" to the submarine before the trip, arguing that these were part of a plan to kill Ms. Wall.
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The behind-the-scenes dispute over language sharpened the sense of isolation for the American president at a conference that some have branded the "G-6 plus 1," a snide reference to Mr. Trump.
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Henry McMaster and the lawmakers who control the State Legislature are all Republicans and do not seem to wake up each morning with their knives already sharpened, as their counterparts appear to in Raleigh.
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But after the outage, observers on Sunday sharpened their criticism of the company, which in 2011 set out to transform the industry amid rising theater ticket prices and increased competition from movie streaming services.
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The initiative follows outrage over attacks on women in Cologne on New Year's Eve blamed predominantly on North African migrants that sharpened a national debate about the open-door refugee policy adopted by Merkel.
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The recommendation riled some smaller euro zone countries and some within the Commission because many policy-makers saw it as undermining the credibility of budget rules that were sharpened during the sovereign debt crisis.
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The dilemma sharpened in the following months as American-trained Somali government forces got into trouble and required "collective self-defense" airstrikes to bail them out, even though no American advisers faced direct threat.
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LONDON, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Focus has sharpened on how exchange-traded bond funds react to market shocks after recent wobbles showed some performing out of line with the assets they are designed to mirror.
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She has steadily sharpened her case against President Trump, now referring to him as a "predator in the White House," as she delivers a far more confident argument than she did a few months ago.
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"The defendant's actions — jamming the tang end of a four-foot long sharpened metal-bladed sword-like instrument completely through the victim's head and killing him — demonstrate the danger he poses," prosecutor Daniel Satterberg wrote.
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China has so far responded only with sharpened rhetoric, but analysts and officials worry that Beijing might take bolder action after it hosts the Group of 20 meeting of the world's biggest economies in September.
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Seasoned editor Hanya Yanagihara took the helm of T, The NY Times Style Magazine, in 2017, and under her editorship, the magazine's coverage of all things style, arts, and culture has faithfully sharpened its edge.
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The U.S. focus on North Korea has been sharpened by dozens of North Korean missile launches - the most recent of which was on Monday - and two nuclear bomb tests since the beginning of last year.
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Italy's anti-immigration stance, criticized by human rights groups who say its risks lives at sea, has sharpened divisions in the EU, which took in more than a million refugees and migrants in 2015 alone.
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The military operation has sharpened the tension between Suu Kyi's six-month-old civilian administration and the army, which ruled the country for decades and retains key powers, including control of ministries responsible for security.
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"With our sharpened focus on our core territories of Australia and New Zealand, now is the right time for IAG to exit its investment in SBI General," Chief Executive Peter Harmer said in a statement.
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Cuba's "knowledge economy" – a product of its wealth of skilled university graduates whose technical skills and abilities have been sharpened by material shortages and limitations – provides fertile ground to grow U.S.-Cuban cooperation and enterprise.
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Officials said Harvey's devastating flooding, coupled with the sheer power of Irma, ranked as the strongest Atlantic storm on record, had sharpened the focus of Floridians who were somewhat indifferent about preparing for past hurricanes.
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The soft-spoken Fahey brought diplomacy to the fight, using considerable political skills sharpened by years of service in the Australian parliament, while Reedie has used a little of both playing more of conciliator role.
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A "vague claim of exclusion" sharpened into a "powerful and effective ideological arrow in the conservative quiver," Hemmer argues, through battles that conservative radio broadcasters had with the F.C.C. in the nineteen-fifties and sixties.
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The election comes amid a deep slump in the country following Easter Sunday attacks on hotels and churches by Islamist militants that killed over 2.73 people and sharpened tensions between majority Sinhalese and minority Muslims.
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In the subsequent decades, the German-born Conceptualist has only sharpened his anti-establishment critique; his political integrity, formal acuity, and trenchant wit are on view in a sixty-year retrospective at the New Museum.
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In the role of Sawyer, Foy gets to yell, to fidget, and to fight—and, in a moment of primal release denied to Her Majesty, to stab someone in the neck with a sharpened spoon.
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But there is a dawning realization in Britain, sharpened by Mr. Trump's victory, that there will still be many who are left behind by automation, the international movement of labor and the pace of change.
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"He is Iraqi to the core, and his extremist ideology was sharpened and refined in the crucible of the American occupation," Tim Arango and Eric Schmitt of The Times wrote of al-Baghdadi in 2014.
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To countenance a nuclear-armed Japan at a time when China's rapid rise and designs in the East China Sea have sharpened tensions between the two countries is also to play a high-risk game.
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The latest data sharpened calls to tackle Britain's housing crisis by introducing a tax on the value of underlying land, rather than property, a proposal made by the opposition Labour Party in its 2017 manifesto.
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Meanwhile, Democratic candidates and operatives said that while Tuesday's events sharpened that corruption line of attack, the fundamentals remained that the 2018 fight will likely remain focused on issues like tax policy and health care.
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Sanders also aired two new ads attacking Biden and sharpened his criticism of the former vice president in his stump speech on issues from gay rights and abortion to Social Security and, above all, trade.
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He has dispensed with the professorial history lessons that slowed his stump speech down at the beginning of the fall and sharpened his argument into an animated, finger-pointing, crowd-riling indictment of his successor.
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Interestingly, in light of Kat's switch to pairs skating, the facility was the sight of the first major ice skating scandal since Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan went toe-to-sharpened-toe in the '90s.
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Mr. Biden and Mr. Sanders both delivered forceful remarks in several of the same towns and cities in eastern Iowa, offering sharpened messages about America's role in the world and their visions of presidential leadership.
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In the best-case scenarios, several Republicans now working in Washington told me, being a conservative in overwhelmingly liberal places sharpened their critical thinking skills, moderated some of their views and tempered their youthful arrogance.
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Before becoming a Disney star, he had sharpened his filming and editing chops on the now-defunct video platform Vine when he was still a high school wrestler in Westlake, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland.
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The president initially said he felt comfortable negotiating with Ms. Pelosi, but in interviews aired on Sunday, he sharpened his attacks on her and said her obstinacy on the border wall was damaging the country.
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Mike Pence as his running mate on Saturday after days of speculation, a pick that many restive conservatives were quick to praise even as his Democratic opponents sharpened their lines of attack against the GOP ticket.
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Chinese online retail giant Alibaba beat analyst estimates with a 2450 percent rise in third-quarter revenue, benefiting from its sharpened focus on cloud and digital media ventures as well as gains in its core business.
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Social media has sharpened the way younger generations expect their lives to be viewed, and it's clear that with this assignment, each subject had a clear idea of the story they wanted their images to tell.
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But while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemed to tamp down plans for impeachment during the conference call, some Democratic presidential candidates sharpened their arguments at CNN's town halls Monday night for moving forward with impeachment proceedings.
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If anything, the differences sharpened in the days leading up to Trump's visit to the Vatican on Wednesday, with Trump still dithering on whether to keep the U.S. within the Paris Climate Agreement, which Francis supports.
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The Russian military moves have sharpened divisions in Washington over whether President Vladimir Putin genuinely backs the U.N.-led initiative to end the war or is using the talks to mask renewed military support for Assad.
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Colbert, certainly, has benefited from sharpened satire with Trump in the White House, while some perceive "Tonight's" Jimmy Fallon -- who remains first in the demographics advertisers covet -- as having suffered for his more vanilla-flavored approach.
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Miles away from a traditional damsel in distress, she is refreshingly calm, tough, quick-thinking and competent, whether she is whittling a crutch into a sharpened stake or fashioning a hazmat suit from a shower curtain.
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Two weeks after the pair had battled for the lead in Austria, with Frenchman Leclerc forced off by his determined Red Bull rival, the Ferrari driver showed he had sharpened his elbows and learned a lesson.
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The Rakhine military operation has sharpened the tension between Suu Kyi's six-month-old civilian administration and the army, which ruled the country for decades and retains key powers, including control of ministries responsible for security.
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The sound is lean, underweight in the lower strings, unreverberant; but individual sections and instruments are clear and beautiful, and the orchestra brings off Toscanini's approach—sharpened attacks and imperious speed—with breathtaking accuracy and exhilaration.
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For the last five days, President Donald Trump has sharpened his rhetoric against Syria and its most powerful ally Russia and issued a threat via Twitter of a potential U.S. strike against the war-torn country.
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After The New York Times and The Washington Post reported anonymously sourced criticisms, Democrats sharpened their calls for the release of the full report, which is not expected from Barr until mid-April at the earliest.
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The sonnet, an Italian contrivance adapted by the poets of the English Renaissance, was handed down to twentieth-century writers like Robert Lowell and Gwendolyn Brooks and self-consciously Americanized—its gait loosened, its politics sharpened.
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These worries have been sharpened in recent years by the leading role that Turkish militias have played in the fight against the Islamic State terrorist group, and the international recognition they have garnered as a result.
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"Having sharpened their knives behind closed doors, the committee would now like to drag back Special Agent Strzok and have him testify in public — a request that we originally made and the committee denied," Goelman said.
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One end of the stem is sharpened for easy piercing, so go ahead and load up that Bloody Mary with whatever garnishes your heart desires — we know you can get more creative than settling for olives.
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It is very much seeing what George Washington warned about—he said the ultimate domination of one faction over another sharpened by the spirit of revenge is a frightful despotism, and that's what we have today.
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In this way, the overall detachment from a framework of essential understanding is sharpened, and that will be the music's greatest virtue, its signature, like in Dadaism and the Impressionism that inspired both Satie and Cage.
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The early week puzzles have built up your solving self-esteem, you've sharpened your skills on the midweek puzzles and now, at the end of the week, you're primed and ready for a tug-of-war.
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In recent days, a rift has widened between Mr. Maduro and his attorney general, Luisa Ortega, who sharpened her criticism of the president's plan to let a constituent assembly of handpicked loyalists write a new Constitution.
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He "chronicles every Dead show set list on his phone," said a close friend, Chris Schell, and "brings his pencils, sharpened in his pocket, and scorer's sheet" to keep score of every baseball game he sees.
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The biggest change, at least for the players who have previously played this winners-only event, are the sharpened slopes on some of the greens and the length, mainly on No. 3, 4, 9 and 10.
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The jockeying to begin hostilities with the Trump administration is a measure of how the country's widening political divide has transformed the offices of state attorneys general into legal laboratories and sharpened them into political scalpels.
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The so-called admax units were created in New York after a former aide to the late Osama bin Laden in 20143 stabbed a federal corrections officer in the eye with a comb sharpened into a shank.
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Merritt's statement on Tuesday includes Harris' account of the events in question: Harris and Crews had a brief encounter when Harris observed Crews appearing to spear an associate with the sharpened end of a confederate flag pole.
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Many days, he sits on a Caracas sidewalk and uses a sharpened spoon to build toy cars out of plastic bottles, installing an internal pulley system with strips of rubber to make sections of the car rotate.
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Some fighters sharpened up and realized that feinting and cage position made a huge difference, and even the most dimwitted of fighters isn't getting into the middleweight top ten running forward with their chin on a platter.
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The rhetoric between the two neighbors with deep-rooted historical disputes has sharpened, with two Greek soldiers detained by Turkey and eight Turkish soldiers seeking asylum in Greece the focal point of verbal jousting in recent months.
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The so-called admax units were created in New York after a former aide to the late Osama bin Laden in 22014 stabbed a federal corrections officer in the eye with a comb sharpened into a shank.
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An unexpected second-quarter contraction in Britain's economy had late last week sharpened the market focus on fears that the country will crash out of the European Union at the end of October without a transitional deal.
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On top of that, the U.S. has recently threatened key Chinese technology firms like Huawei with being cut off from American products, so that's sharpened Beijing's focus on cultivating its domestic chip industry, analysts have told CNBC.
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Jeff Bezos said last week that the "golden age" of artificial intelligence and machine learning had enabled new products like Amazon's Alexa and sharpened the company's core businesses by improving search results, product recommendations, and inventory management.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Premier Li Keqiang told European Union officials on Wednesday that the country was committed to market reforms and remained determined to tackle a steel capacity glut that has sharpened tensions between the two sides.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Archaeologists at the University of York say they may have found one of the earliest examples of a crayon: a 10,000-year-old elongated piece of ochre with a sharpened end.
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READ: Sanders family talks simple life with People magazine And Sanders has sharpened his attacks on Clinton, not mentioning her by name, but consistently pointing out that he hasn't been paid $600,000 speaking fees by Goldman Sachs.
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The star-crossed "Spider Bite" is a personal favorite; forceful percussion and Donovan's sharpened strings cut through the fog while its dancing singsong harmonies recall an older, wilder world, where witchery and danger lurked beyond every corner.
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According to their findings, which were recently published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, artifacts discovered in the Solomon Islands are theorized to be 3,000-year-old tattooing tools made from sharpened volcanic glass, or obsidian.
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She explains how she became inspired by Björk, developed an intensive songwriting strategy after moving to New York, and sharpened her production skills to make her first record, Me. Get the VICE App on iOS and Android
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The band's second full-length, Mystical Future, builds upon The Writing of Gods' sturdy foundation, their skills further sharpened by a preceding series of splits and EPs (including this South African metal compilation we covered last year).
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Then, in September 2017, the Times-Standard in Humboldt County, California reported that guards at the local jail had to use a stun gun on an inmate after he allegedly assaulted another inmate with a sharpened spork.
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For decades, this man has lived surrounded by rusted spoons sharpened into knives, teapots made from tuna tins, bullet casings—and yet he resents it when a foreign visitor is disturbed by these artifacts of human suffering.
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Martin Stolar, a New York civil-rights lawyer,told The New York Timesthat a sharpened focus on white supremacist violence would also test whether Americans approved of aggressive oversight when the targets were white and not Muslim.
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He went on to serve several of the nation's most consequential Republican politicians, including Ronald Reagan and George Bush, for whom Mr. Ailes sharpened the devastating attack against his Democratic opponent, Michael Dukakis, as soft on crime.
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She prosecuted juvenile-delinquency and child-support cases around the city — "lots of beaten children, lots of starved children, lots of children who were sexually molested" — and sharpened her obsession with personal responsibility and strong family structure.
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It was here that Sarri sharpened his eye for detail, here that he developed his style, here that he became the manager who would make it all the way to Serie A and, now, the Premier League.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea and North Korea have continued to pour resources into modernizing their militaries despite a frenzy of diplomacy since 2018, data shows, creating a point of tension that has sharpened as talks have stalled.
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Then I take out my manual typewriter, type up the clues, take a Sharpie and make the black squares on the grid, type in the numbers, and finally neatly write in the words with two sharpened pencils.
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It seems that the challenges she has faced in the past few weeks, such as her slide in the polls and frustration with her shifting positions on Medicare for All, strengthened her resolve and sharpened her focus.
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Ms. Pelosi's sharpened rhetoric was part of a shift in which Democrats and other critics of Mr. Trump have sought to talk about their allegations using a more plain-English term — and one that is explicitly impeachable.
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But countries as diverse as the Netherlands (which lost 193 citizens when a Russian missile brought down a Malaysian Airlines jet over Ukraine), and the U.K. (site of several poisoning by Russian agents) have sharpened their views.
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Levy writes: A populist politician who campaigned on AI-induced job loss would start with ready-made definitions of the "people" and the "elite" based on national fault lines that were sharpened in the 2016 presidential election.
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The findings have sharpened concerns about what climate change will mean for the region's marine life, already struggling with plastic pollution, runoff from oil palm plantations, damage to reefs by dynamite fishing and the loss of mangroves.
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The initiative follows outrage over sexual attacks on women in Cologne on New Year's Eve blamed predominantly on North African migrants that sharpened a national debate about the open-door refugee policy adopted by Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Top Iranian leaders have said they are not seeking war with the United States and officials speaking to Reuters from Tehran last week said that despite the sharpened rhetoric with Washington, authorities are trying to avoid open conflict.
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But this is a new phase of the campaign -- one that tracks somewhat with his consistent message that a good candidate with a vision for the future will rise eventually -- but sharpened with his strong anti-Trump statement.
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But a vague perception had been weighing on me constantly during the trip, and suddenly, in the dark bar, that perception sharpened into words: I've never been to so foreign a place before that felt so deeply familiar.
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Over the last two years, countries that had once been dependable allies have changed their position as new governments have taken over, according to activists and diplomats, all while longtime foes of LGBTQ inclusion have sharpened their attacks.
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She wallows in the exotic details of her story—from the sharpened bamboo the Chinese used to fight British interlopers, to the heroin pills "flavoured with rosewater and coated with chocolate" that were once sold over the counter.
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In keeping with a theme he often invoked as a candidate in 2016 and has continually returned to since taking office, Republican Trump has sharpened his anti-immigrant rhetoric, warning that illegal immigrants threaten U.S. safety and jobs.
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These moments are incredibly effective, and these images will stay etched in my mind's eye for some time—a giggling girl in a yellow raincoat, morphed into devilish assailants with heads subsumed by large mouths of sharpened teeth.
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After folding its China business into DiDi last year, Uber sharpened its focus and resources on India and Southeast Asia, the latter a promising market of nearly 650 million people, many of whom are young and tech-savvy.
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In all, Hernandez racked up about a dozen separate disciplinary offenses between May 224 and October 22015, including three fistfights, two smoking-related issues, two surprise prison tattoos and possession of a nearly six-inch sharpened metal shiv.
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Comments by King describing her rival as a drug cheat have sharpened the rivalry between the two, and Russian swimming chief Vladimir Salnikov told Reuters on Tuesday the atmosphere surrounding his team reminded him of the Cold War.
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The rules, sharpened during the sovereign debt crisis that threatened the very existence of the single currency, are now under pressure because of the migration crisis, which is putting a new strain on public finances of several countries.
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In order to truly get America back to work, we must recognize this important shift: no longer are skills the basis for a livable wage; skills and knowledge in the new economy must be continually sharpened and acquired.
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The Fed's dovish tilt in turn sharpened the focus on the Bank of Japan, which on Thursday kept its ultra-loose monetary policy unchanged amid speculation that it may follow its U.S. counterpart and ease sooner or later.
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The question of how to deal with China's influence in Australia, a steadfast ally of the United States, is being sharpened by Beijing's growing assertiveness in the international arena, which includes broad claims in the South China Sea.
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Martin Stolar, a New York civil-rights lawyer, told The New York Times that a sharpened focus on white supremacist violence would also test whether Americans approved of aggressive oversight when the targets were white and not Muslim.
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After folding its China business into Didi last year, Uber sharpened its focus and resources on India and Southeast Asia, the latter a promising market of nearly 650 million people, many of whom are young and tech-savvy.
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I felt really accomplished during the final days of the challenge — I took away some sharpened cooking skills, saved money, and had a great experience By the last few days of this challenge, I really found my groove.
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Jonathan Looi, Queens, N.Y., on "Paul George's Secret: He Learned to Play Like a Girl" (21911) This article describes how Paul George of the Indiana Pacers learned and sharpened his basketball skills by playing against his older sister.
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Ms. Hickey has quietly circulated a battle plan to Republican leaders and vulnerable members of Congress, calling for a sharpened focus on winning over wavering Republicans, moderates and women — even if that means withdrawing support from Mr. Trump.
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As the sky sharpened at its edges in pink, slashing tongues, I could see, finally, through a gap in the cliffs, a long curve of juniper-covered hills rolling and tumbling southward before breaking up into open country.
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Anamika Veeramani, who won the 2010 Bee by spelling "stromuhr," called the contest "an American pastime" that had sharpened her language, even though nearly all of the words she had learned would never come up in everyday use.
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Mr. Trump also makes the trip hobbled by new questions about the Russia investigation back in Washington, sharpened in recent days by revelations that his aides sought to arrange meetings between him and Mr. Putin during the campaign.
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You feel the sharpened perceptions of people who know they may be saying goodbye to their homes, their land, their families for the last time; that this may be their last meal, their last kiss, their last conversation.
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Almost unrecognizable behind a scraggly beard, croaking his lines through a mouth full of sharpened teeth, he exudes a gleeful Charles Manson-like malevolence as Ygor — a grave robber who survived his hanging, albeit with a broken neck.
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But even those who were, in a sense, glad to see him leave acknowledge that Guardiola's lasting legacy was not the three Bundesliga titles he won, but the way he sharpened and honed and improved everything he could.
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A year ago, he took the helm of Google's cloud operations — which includes G Suite — and set about giving the organization a sharpened focus by expanding on a strategy his predecessor Diane Greene first set during her tenure.
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PDVSA has boosted purchases of foreign crude and refined products since December mostly by swapping its own crude and fuel oil for the imports after financial sanctions imposed by the United States sharpened a long-standing cash crunch.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic lawmakers could vote this week on articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, the House Judiciary Committee chairman said on Sunday as lawmakers sharpened their focus on charges of wrongdoing in his dealings with Ukraine.
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Even if you don't recall being a particularly artsy kid, that never-been-touched, freshly sharpened rainbow of Crayolas was very exciting — even more so if you unfolded the box cover to find that it was a glitter pack.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Wrapped in the skin of a canid, a cluster of sharpened turkey bones and mussel shells with traces of red pigment appears, to the untrained eye, like a random assortment of ancient tools.
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RELATED: Cruz slams Trump in wake of Brussels attack But with his sharpened political instincts, Trump managed to turn the tumult after Paris and a subsequent ISIS-inspired mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, in December to his advantage.
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Over the past decade, Santa Fe's art scene has sharpened its edges considerably, moving beyond a regional focus on Southwestern art, Pueblo pottery, and the bland abstract paintings that the calcified galleries on Canyon Road sell to rich tourists.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two influential Federal Reserve officials on Thursday sharpened their public case for acting, quickly if needed, to support the U.S. economy, reviving bets the central bank may deliver a double-barreled interest rate cut this month.
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Both sides complain that the election is being stolen; the acrimony, sharpened by allegations of racial discrimination, makes Florida's hanging chads and the Supreme Court's ruling in favour of George W. Bush in 2000 seem like a church picnic.
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The credibility of the rules, which were sharpened during the crisis to discourage governments from over-spending, has already been badly damaged by the Commission's decision last year not to fine France for its repeated abuse of the Pact.
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The law should be sharpened to punish big businesses and public bodies that fail to disclose their anti-slavery actions, while the anti-slavery tsar must be free to scrutinize and criticize the government's actions, according to the review.
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And he's running in the aftermath of Clinton's 2016 loss and amid the #MeToo moment, both of which have sharpened attention on why it is that the exciting, fresh new faces in presidential politics always seem to be men.
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Most of them are nonwhite and many of them immigrants, something which has sharpened racial divisions in the working class at a time when incomes at the bottom are squeezed, and the city's post-Brexit future is still uncertain.
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But I suspect it will largely come down to whether you can live with a single-lens camera, which doesn't do as good a job taking those D.S.L.R.-like photos with a blurred-out background and a sharpened foreground.
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WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday sharpened his criticism of China's handling of the coronavirus outbreak, saying its ruling Communist Party was still denying the world information it needs to prevent further cases.
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The argument over Mr. Kemp's role sharpened on Sunday, when his office announced that it had opened an inquiry into the Democratic Party of Georgia for what state officials said was an attempted hacking of the voter registration system.
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But in this sense porn also presents an opportunity to reconsider the tendency to just drift along with technological immersion, a chance where the moral stakes are sharpened to prove we don't have to accept enslavement to our screens.
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As the cultural divide sharpened, two blocs of conservative writers began interfering with the Hugos, using a loophole to shape the list of nominees; until it was closed, two years later, people protested by selecting "No award" on ballots.
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LONDON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Lebanon's eurobonds sharpened their sell-off on Monday after Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh said a political solution was needed to the country's crisis in days to regain confidence and avoid a future economic collapse.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - HNA Group is preparing its bid for a concession to operate Belgrade's airport, a company executive said, undeterred by Beijing's sharpened scrutiny of overseas acquisitions, which has clouded some of the Chinese conglomerate's other pending deals.
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The seizure by the government of Baoshang Bank earlier this year and the state rescue of Bank of Jinzhou sharpened concerns about the health of hundreds of small lenders as China's economic growth slows to near 30-year lows.
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Which isn't to suggest there's no place for women to write analysis, or fiction, or whatever they please — just that Massey's particular voice, like Marnell's, works best when sharpened to a point, tilling the raw ground of the personal.
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But sometimes prison offers us a vantage point on one another—on our humanity—a view that lifts us high enough above it all to see clear beyond the chain link, beyond the sharpened steel of the fence line.
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He was recently compared to a protagonist from political-drama House Of Cards after declaring "I don't very much believe in the stick, but it's amazing what can be achieved with a sharpened carrot" in his Tory party conference speech.
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Muguruza's rapid rise to the No. 22 ranking sharpened the focus on her run in Australia, attention which only increased after second-ranked Simona Halep and No. 33 Venus Williams, a seven-time major winner, lost in the first round.
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This was no high-def reskin of Team Ico's (uh, I hate the word, but it earned it) seminal adventure of the PS2 era; no simple polishing up of the 2011 PS43 remaster that already possessed some pleasingly sharpened edges.
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