Sentence examples for be sharpened by a from inspiring English sources

That vague phrase may be sharpened by a decision last month by Switzerland to phase out nuclear power, after similar decisions in Sweden, Italy and Germany.In this section Turkey's other half A war too far for Milosevic Just say no Interesting dilemma A little gleam of law in Serbia But will it help?

He makes some good points that can be sharpened by a more precise comparison between the impact of Prozac on the brain and the impact of government regulation and stimulation on the economy.

Those fears will inevitably be sharpened by any move by Iran towards independently increasing levels of enrichment.

Their intellects and their art were sharpened by a sense of double-exile.

Friday's vividness is sharpened by a refreshing clash of genres.

Wherever we train our binoculars, our focus is sharpened by a melancholy sense of foreboding.

Their determination to distance themselves from its views is sharpened by a series of attacks on Muslims over the past week.

Mr. Kollek's desire to be a filmmaker, he acknowledges, was sharpened by a need to avoid anonymity.

The lesson wasn't lost on Murray; his nativism -- for instance, he has revived traditional ballad forms -- is sharpened by a cosmopolitan temperament.

But resentments have been sharpened by a sense that Mrs Thatcher's legacy, which only a few years ago had seemed redemptive of Britain's fortunes, now appears rather less so.

Cornwell's suspicions were sharpened by a series of pictures Sickert painted in 1908, prompted by the murder of a Camden prostitute, which Cornwell claims have an eerie similarity to the autopsy pictures taken of the Ripper's victims.