Sentence examples for honed under from inspiring English sources

His tool box includes spare prose honed under deadline pressure in city rooms and cop shops.

Russians like Ms. Litvyak, 72, a retired bookkeeper, are falling back on scrounging habits honed under Communism.

Like athletes in any sport, jockeys are at their mental and physical best when honed under regular match-practice.

The Orlando facility, closed to the public, is a kind of wrestling finishing school in which skills and moves are honed under ultra-slow motion footage.

Drawing on the infighting skills he had honed under Nixon, he plotted to derail Henry Kissinger's policy of détente with the Soviet Union, which the right saw as appeasement.

It's unorthodox, Bubba's game, and until a couple of years ago it was unproven against the multitude of perfectly planed swings the Tiger era has produced — swings like Adam Scott's and Justin Rose's, two of the purest on tour, both honed under the direction of Butch Harmon and Sean Foley, respectively, Harmon being one of Tiger's old coaches, and Foley his current one.

It took four more years for Mr. Washington to agree to direct the screenplay, which Mr. Fisher kept honing under the sponsorship of the producer Todd Black ("A Knight's Tale") and in meetings with Mr. Washington.

His knowledge of economics had been honed in Oxford under Roy Harrod, a pioneer in the study of growth.

He honed his skills under Ken Hom's tutelage at Silks in San Francisco and then ran restaurants in Palo Alto and Santa Fe.

The Brotherhood, an organization that honed its discipline under decades of police scrutiny, sent hundreds of members on Thursday night to camp out and start setting up in Tahrir Square, the staging ground of a two-week sit-in that ousted Mr. Mubarak in February.

He has honed his preparations under the eyes of Freddie Roach, a man who learned alongside the revered Eddie Futch and who gained recognition in his own right 13 years ago, when he helped Steve Collins to beat Chris Eubank and win the WBO super-middleweight title.