Sentence examples for be at a sharp from inspiring English sources

While the slow improvement of all groups is "still a success story," Mr. Petrilli said, the achievement gap, which shows how different groups perform relative to one another, still means that most black and Hispanic students will be at a sharp disadvantage when they have to compete against white and Asian peers as they move through schools and into the workplace.

But once the balloon is being inflated, the bent end may rise up and tear the distal end of the stricture, especially if the stricture is at a sharp-angle.

International networks that carry data into and out of the United States are still being expanded at a sharp rate, but the Internet infrastructure in many other regions of the world is growing even more quickly.

Ethnic minority communities would not be immune to this pain: we would be at the sharp end of a recession.

The Quinlan Bridge span (Fig. 3) is less than the natural bankfull width of the Lewis Creek channel, and the bridge is oriented at a sharp angle to the Lewis Creek.

The goalkeeper then had to be at his sharpest to push away a low free-kick from Hwang Sun-hong at the start of sudden-death extra-time.

This incapacitated the entire apparatus, while the rudder was turned at a sharp angle.

The company's shares are trading at a sharp discount to the value of its property holdings, the filing shows.

A vertical notch cut into each of its facades creates deep, brooding shadows; the top is sliced at a sharp diagonal that tilts toward the memorial pools below.

Integrin β3 subunit, on other hand, is arranged at a sharp acute angle with its K side chain making contacts with negatively charged patch on the surface of IgC5 which sticks out as being repelled by negatively charged inner leaflet of the lipid bilayer.

Hotel costs in other cities, while starting at a base line substantially lower than New York's, have been rising at a sharper rate.