Sentence examples for given sharp from inspiring English sources

The unemployment rate has risen from 9% in mid-2009 to 14.2% in the last quarter of 2010, and is expected to average 15.5% this year (see chart 1).Misery was inevitable, given sharp spending cuts and big tax rises.

The spare colour palette – from chalk white to slate grey, almond to honey – was given sharp edges by slim ribbons of sequins which ran through the collection like veins through marble.

Carter's piece is an attempt to rebalance the crucial debate, given sharp importance by Robert Francis QC's scathing report into the Mid Staffordshire hospital care scandal, about how much NHS care really is inadequate.

In a move characteristic of Tenorio's method, the tenderness between the two men is given sharp poignancy when it's revealed that they once shared a kiss, and that Fortunado has been "counting off days and weeks since it happened, believing that enough passing time would blur the night into one that perhaps never happened at all".

Russian troops and equipment were reported to have crossed into eastern Ukraine as well, and President Putin was given sharp warnings by world leaders at the G20 summit.

Even though the complexes have shown weaker fluorescence in water itself, it has given sharp fluorescence images under the epifluorescence microscope system.

Now the laws are being tidied up and given sharper teeth.

For trustees to become real watchdogs, they must be given sharper teeth, the critics say.

The "Kantian" answer is given sharpest formulation by Weber in his philosophy of social science.

When God gives hard bread, he gives sharp teeth.

Horned frogs may be aggressive when disturbed; some are capable of giving sharp bites.