Sentence examples for needed to be sharpened from inspiring English sources

Although the industry's advertising revenue has continued to grow, its "brand needed to be sharpened," she added, to help "transform the medium into a stronger competitor".

A couple of times a year, an old Italian man who had a knife-and-tool-sharpening business in his van would come to the back door and ask if anything needed to be sharpened.

That will need to be sharpened up.

The slack, colorless dialogue especially needs to be sharpened.

That suggests the new tools need to be sharpened.

If estimated rates are required, incentives to report accurately need to be sharpened.

But other ways to finance projects and encourage local and foreign funds also need to be sharpened up.

If the main point is that real audiences are manipulated and given a sense of false participation, it needs to be sharpened.

Those tools still need to be sharpened with other useful intelligence, said Mark Rasch, a former federal prosecutor who worked on investigations in domestic and international criminal cases.

NO matter how keen an edge a knife has when new, sooner or later it will need to be sharpened -- a job that most home cooks tend to neglect.

Speaking to the Institute for Government, the Cabinet Office minister said the civil service has "great strengths" but accountability to ministers needs to be "sharpened".