However, Ms. Levine, the advertising group's director, took sharp exception to that assertion, saying it mischaracterized the group's decision.
Some political analysts and bloggers —as well as another rival, former Clinton United Nations ambassador Bill Richardson — took sharp exception to that statement.
We at the Investment Program Association, the trade association representing non-listed direct investment vehicles, take sharp exception to your article's overall portrayal of non-listed alternatives.
Meron Benvenisti, an Israeli who has done landmark studies of conditions in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem and has long been critical of his government's policies, takes sharp exception to the view that Mr. Arafat was in control of events last week.
Then I long for an imbalance, a sharp exception, a fierce eruption.
With a few sharp exceptions, the works are second-rate or, really, no-rate: hybrid in form and forced in content, belonging to no vital tradition, responding to no one's need.
The exception, in fact, is an "exception to an exception," because the act is an exception to sovereign immunity law that typically immunizes the United States from suit.
Eisenberg and other lawyers were met with sharp questioning by Judge William Garnett over the legal reasoning that would justify making an exception to the long-standing practice of keeping the process secret.
This is, of course, a sharp contrast to what happened at the start of President Obama's first term, when all the House Republicans, without exception, voted against the fiscal stimulus package.
