Meeting one-on-one with or serving as a peer tutor in mathematics, the natural sciences or a foreign language sharpens understanding for both the tutee and the tutor, and allows for a level of inquiry often shied away from in the classroom.
Manning Marable, the director of African-American studies at Columbia University who is writing a biography of Malcolm X, said the documents would sharpen scholars' understanding of his intellectual evolution.
"It's really a tribute to this great telescope," he says, adding that Subaru's analysis could also sharpen astronomers' understanding of star formation.
So it's back to the drawing board, this time with a sharpened understanding that social change, serious social change, profoundly serious social change is never a process that takes place overnight.
More recently, the 2009 H1N1 influenza epidemic, given the very severe forms of ARDS observed in young subjects, led to improvements in equipment (cannulae, pumps and membranes), sharpened understanding of protective ventilation modalities, and renewed interest in the use of ECMO.
And then, as is always the way with Rosten – and Yiddish – he sharpens ones understanding illustratively: "A nebech is sometimes defined as the kind of person who always picks up what a shlemiel knocks over".
We suggest that a more careful consideration of these areas sharpens understandings of the contributions, and limitations, of mitochondrial interventions as well as of their wider socio-ethical impacts.
The new outlook described in the strategic plan involves an increased emphasis and sharpened focus on understanding how environmental exposures affect human biology, and on applying that knowledge to reduce morbidity and mortality.
Second-year player Brian Rolle has the agility to thrive in space, though he needs to sharpen his understanding of the game.
Among the many joys of urban pedestrianism, they sharpen my understanding of art's sensory effects while broadening my appreciation of the aesthetic byproducts of more workaday activities.
He knows that his "judgments may at first seem overstated, or appear to force the sexes into strict dichotomies," but such "hyperbole can serve a purpose: to sharpen our understanding of the murky world in which we live".
