Sentence examples for cast a sharp from inspiring English sources

While the loss of rent protection at the Archive was not unexpected, it forced many longtime tenants to cast a sharp eye over their neighborhood and their lives.

The original Haifa court case, which began in 2010 and concluded in 2012, cast a sharp spotlight on the attitudes of some Israeli officials to civilians in conflict areas.

The sylvan details cast a sharp, lacy scrim over the indistinct color patches, and the powerful figure/ground illusion makes the patterns seem to recede until it feels as if one's eye were nearly pressed to the canvas.

The back-to-back appearances before the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials cast a sharp light on a topic that has divided the country in recent years, particularly as jobs have grown scarcer since the financial crisis of 2008.

In The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan takes on the legacy of the second world war for both Australians and Japanese; Neel Mukherjee, in The Lives of Others, chooses Calcutta in the 1960s for his setting: and yet both these books cast a sharp beam on the present, too – as does The Wake.

It will also cast a sharp light on comments by Mullins before last year's Festival, when he suggested the prize money on offer at the Festival was "not fair and not on", and should be "at least doubled, if not more" to reflect the sums owners such as Ricci pay for young jumping stock.

And a point source will anyway cast a sharper shadow.

Bo Xilai's downfall this spring has also cast a sharper spotlight on the hidden wealth and power accumulated by the Communist Party's revolutionary families, and by the sons, daughters, wives and close relatives of the nation's high-ranking leaders.

Such churning has existed for years, of course, but it has grown into a more serious challenge as school systems impose high-stakes tests that cast a sharper spotlight on the failure of high-mobility schools and as the continuing decline in vocational jobs makes graduation from high school and attending college more important.

If the new disclosure regulations force boards to cast a sharper eye on fees and performance, as intended, they could go a long way toward making fund directors the investor advocates they were always intended to be.

OAXACA, Mexico — The past casts a sharp shadow here, wherever you look.