Canada's top securities watchdog, the Ontario Securities Commission, has added muscle and sharpened its teeth over the last two years.
But the association has sharpened its edge over the years, moving from its well-known crusades for public "decency" to harshly opposing what it calls an anti-Christian "homosexual agenda" — not only same-sex marriage and the acceptance of gay troops in the military, but any suggestion that homosexual "behavior is normal".
But it also demonstrates that Israel's longstanding contest between secular and religious Jews is intensifying as the debate sharpens over what it means to live in a democratic state that is Jewish.
The EU, which has threatened to suspend talks on a new partnership deal with Russia, sharpened its rhetoric against Moscow over the weekend and carved out a bigger peacekeeping role for itself in the Caucasus.
The picture that emerges remains blurry — scientists still understand little about such weather-changers as El Niño and La Niña — but it has sharpened considerably over the past 40 years, enough for Mr. Fagan to present a coherent account of profound changes in human societies from the American Southwest to the Huang He River basin in China.
Grab your diamond stone or deburring/sharpening stone and run it over the edges of the snowboard a few times (sides and bottom) to remove all burrs that will damage your file.
At the same time, arguments have sharpened over how much it will cost the economy to cut the emission of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels, which are linked to climate change.
The financing request may serve to further sharpen partisan divisions over the Iraq war in general, and its soaring cost in particular.
Scissors will eventually become dull, but sharpening will restore them over and over, at as little as $6 per sharpening (again, check on prices in your local area).
Like the headlight of a distant, oncoming car, this little patch of light will slowly brighten and sharpen over the eons.
