Sentence examples for sharp persistent from inspiring English sources

The result has been sharp, persistent debates over how much is too much -- whether the suspect is arsenic, soot, dioxins or phthalates, trace ingredients in products as varied as plastics and perfume.

It is a chance for the electorate to express more clearly whether it really wants a fundamentally smaller and less activist government or is just temporarily frustrated that government has not done a better job of cushioning it from an especially sharp, persistent and unequally distributed economic downturn.

Thus, the idea that a weak U.S. and global recovery with massive deflationary pressures and a severe financial crisis and massive corporate defaults will lead to a robust recovery of earnings and a sharp persistent bull-market rally in equities is totally far-fetched.

But Mr. Biden tempered his support for the conflict by saying it should be limited to ending Iraq's weapons programs, and he has been a sharp and persistent critic of the war's conduct.

Politicians, from all parties, have made names for themselves with sharp and persistent questions that expose important information or embarrassing facts, or sometimes just provide a look-at-me shouty grab for the evening news.

In the short story, "His Mother Inside Him," which appeared in the magazine in 1992, the author describes the urges of a man mourning his mother, who had grown fat over the years: Though he woke to a stomach ache, and vowed moderation, as the sun grew higher the cry from an emptiness within was too sharp, too persistent.

With consumption being over 71% of GDP, a sharp and persistent contraction of consumption all the way through at least the fourth quarter of 2009 implies a more severe recession than otherwise.

The survey results also showed a sharp and persistent partisan divide.

Similar challenges with ET produced rapid hypotension associated with sharp and persistent decreases in central venous pressure and systemic vascular resistance.

His attacks on political authority grew sharper, more persistent, more amplified.

Despite screws anchoring the socket to the pelvis, the loose sockets caused persistent sharp, burning pains in the implant patients.