Sentence examples for sharp sustained from inspiring English sources
During the same period, there has been a sharp, sustained rise in death threats against the President and against (mostly Democratic) legislators.
Perhaps worse, over the past half century there has been a sharp, sustained increase in the number of what farmers call "toad stranglers" — days with more than three inches of rain.
"…as with the U.S. economy itself, we do not expect a sharp, sustained "V-shaped" recovery in demand for semiconductor products or semiconductor manufacturing equipment…At some point, the semiconductor industry will again prove to be a timely investment…let there be no doubt that we do not believe that time is now".
"What's particularly concerning for investors is if there is a sharp, sustained move (by the dollar) in one direction or another," said R. Jordan Smyth Jr., managing director at Edgemoor Investment Advisors.
But a recent test by a reporter suggested that pressure changes registered only if they were quite sharp and sustained.
It has drawn sharp and sustained protests from the Police Department and its legal department, and tough words from sources as diverse as the frequent police critic Leonard Levitt, a former Newsday columnist who writes the NYPD Confidential blog, and Heather Mac Donald, who frequently takes the Police Department's point of view, writing in City Journal, a publication of the Manhattan Institute.
Responses tended to be sharp or sustained, with a few cells showing robust modulation by one or more call categories.
Mr. Habibullah, suffering extreme thirst and sharp kidney pain, sustained himself by thinking of his home in Quetta.
Perhaps the Great Contraction of 2008-09 will be different from other deep financial crises, and we will see a sustained sharp recovery worldwide.
Inspired by Italo Calvino's "Six Memos for the Next Millennium" (only five of which were completed), the crafty, appealing five-movement work deals in vivid contrasts: manic energy and sudden stillness, sharp attacks and sustained tones, giddiness and sobriety.
It starts with a tightrope act: the two players simultaneously tread the same line of melody, changing from one note to the next between sharp attacks and sustained tones.
