Sentence examples for sharp power from inspiring English sources

Clarke has five; Sharp, Power, Stevens and Watson four apiece.

Larry Diamond breaks down Beijing's efforts to direct "sharp power" against institutions in the United States in this podcast.

Yet Australia, so dependent on China economically, has sounded the alert about "sharp power" and covert influence operations.

She favored sharp power shoulders, single-breasted jackets with wide cinched belts and big square buckles, straight skirts and a lot of buttons.

The National Endowment for Democracy issued a report last week called "Sharp Power," which tracked authoritarian influence from China and Russia in several developing countries.

From undermining our liberal institutions, such as media freedom, to meddling in free elections, Beijing is actively deploying its sharp power against Hong Kong.

TROW--George W.S. Legions of old friends will always remember the infectious humor, outrageous sense of fun, sharp powers of observation and prodigious talent of one who has left them too soon.

Writing in the daily New York Times last month, Michiko Kakutani praised Knox's "ability to convey her emotions with considerable visceral power," noting that she "seems to have developed sharp powers of observation during her years in confinement, mapping out the emotional geometry at work among prisoners and guards, and the mental arithmetic she would perform in her head to get through each day".

If, as Ms. Knox tells it, she was too gullible and naïve about people when she first arrived in Italy, she seems to have developed sharp powers of observation during her years in confinement, mapping out the emotional geometry at work among prisoners and guards, and the mental arithmetic she would perform in her head to get through each day.

That goes for state officials as well as owners of businesses who should have the right to refuse service to gays and lesbians planning to wed: "I'd like to think there is room in America for people to disagree instead of screaming and shouting and having to shut their businesses down".It doesn't take exceptionally sharp powers of reasoning to detect the fallacy in Mr Huckabee's logic.

He should resume where it matters most, by giving the Commons sharper powers of scrutiny, even if they make his own job less congenial.