Sentence examples for long been a sharp from inspiring English sources

The Bush administration argues that the lawsuit would alienate Indonesia -- even though the State Department has long been a sharp public critic of the military's abuses in Aceh.

While Mr. Putin's article focused more generally on American foreign policy, Mr. McCain, who has long been a sharp critic of the Kremlin, focused squarely on the Russian president himself.

Chomsky has long been a sharp critic of the capital class and its power to subvert democratic ideals.

An unreconstructed 60's radical, Mr. Sharp has long been a champion of Palestinian self-determination, and his work with Arab musicians is linked to a broader effort to promote Arab-Jewish coexistence.

Another change has been a sharp rise in long-distance power transactions.

What distinguishes the revival we are concerned with from this long venerable tradition, is a sharp clinical focus on empirical theoretical construction and conceptualization, as well as the attempt to develop assessment tools.

"Duplicity" is superior entertainment, the most elegantly pleasurable movie of its kind to come around in a very long time.... It's a sharp, sexy comedy masquerading as a twisty tale of intrigue, and vice versa.

Kavanaugh, who began making stock market purchases when he was 6, has long been known as a sharp financial mind.

Nicholas D. Kristof ("Save the Fat Cats," column, Oct. 2) is quite right that based on the dire experience of Japan, the result of inaction will be a sharp long-term decline in employment and incomes.

Vera Vera Vera, Hayley Squires's first play (she is 23), is a sharp, hour-long sliver: a series of sketches driven by pointless pugilism and distress and played out to the sound of Vera Lynn heartwarmers.

The most important thing, Bromberg added, is a sharp knife: "As long as you have a sharp knife and know how to use it correctly, you're going to avoid 90percentt of the cuts and injuries people get into when slicing an avocado".