But notes provided to The New Yorker on what was said during the S.P.N.'s recent twenty-first-annual meeting raise doubts about Sharp's insistence that each of the think tanks is, as she told me, "fiercely independent".
The dimwitted Bang brothers (brought along at the sharper Joe's insistence) go so far as to claim that "NASCAR is America," as they question the moral implications of their crime.
The executive characterized the DOJ's admission on Monday that it never stopped pursuing ways to open the phone as a sharp contrast with its insistence in court filings that only Apple possessed the means to do so.
The most distinctive features of his thought seem to have been an extreme spiritualism, an insistence, even sharper than that of Plotinus, on the "flight from the body" and more philosophically important a greater sympathy with the less sharply defined vertical hierarchies of the Platonists who had preceded Plotinus.
As recently as March 30th, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that Assad's future would be "decided by the Syrian people," words that signalled a sharp departure from Obama's insistence that Assad must leave office.
In a sharp departure from its past insistence on the sanctity of medical records, the Bush administration has set forth a new, more limited view of privacy rights as it tries to force hospitals and clinics to turn over records of hundreds and perhaps thousands of abortions.
Your March 6 front-page article about John Kerry's "multiple positions on multiple issues," in the words of the Republican National Committee, appears in the same issue as a news article that reports, "In a sharp departure from its past insistence on the sanctity of medical records, the Bush administration has set forth a new, more limited view of privacy rights".
So opines Dylan Sharp at the start of "Strange Insistence", a dusty new track from Los Angeles, by way of Olympia, Washington act Gun Outfit.
His decision on Saturday night to abandon the comprehensive deficit-reduction package, citing the White House's insistence on tax increases, was a sharp reversal.
There was real edge to the fierce account of Der Jäger (The Hunter), Clayton matching Lewis's stabbing staccatos with his own; and a hauntingly rendition of Die Liebe Farbe (The Beloved Colour), in which the unadorned simplicity of Clayton's quiet singing was beautifully set against the nagging insistence of the endlessly repeated F sharp in the piano accompaniment.
