Sentence examples for sharp action from inspiring English sources

"It doesn't get any action except for the sharp action," said Jay Kornegay, the director of the sports book at the Las Vegas Hilton.

Any firm that takes this lightly will find itself on the wrong end of a sharp action by the administration – and if Congress does not pick up the pace, it too will pay a political price.

"It would be a fairly short, sharp action - much like Operation Desert Fox," a 1998 military operation in Iraq, says Peter Mansoor, an Ohio State University professor of military history who served as executive officer for David Petraeus, a retired US Army general, in Iraq.

After a sharp action fought between the afternoon of 9 June and the morning of 10 June, the two ships sank or drove ashore all of the ships with the exception of three brigs, which they captured.

Given that the composition of the clock machinery varies between different tissues [3] and that SHARP-1 and -2 interact with the circadian transcriptional oscillator via E-box regulation [12], [15], [26], [27], we asked whether SHARP action might depend on the composition of the E-box activator complex.

He won small but sharp actions at Port Gibson, Raymond, and Jackson, while the circumspect Confederate defender of Vicksburg, John C. Pemberton, was unable to link up with a smaller Southern force under Joseph E. Johnston near Jackson.

According to narratives, the ones which include aggressive and sharp actions are annotated as "aggressive" and the ones which includes stable actions as "smooth".

Donizettian simplicity demands razor-sharp action and reaction.

In real-world, middle-ground road driving, though, the engine needs to be worked hard to make proper progress, while the box has strange ratios and could do with a sharper action.

But history may yet judge just as harshly the west's decision to ignore Ankara and not take short, sharp, early action in Syria.

It's a little ragged and overlong, but full of sharp-fanged action and visceral thrills.