Sentence examples for sharpened country from inspiring English sources

Since the launch of A Promise Renewed, 30 countries have launched sharpened country strategies to end preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths.

To support partners in fulfilling the renewed commitment to child survival, UNICEF will establish a small secretariat to facilitate collective action on three fronts: 1. Evidence-based country plans At the national level, participating governments will lead the effort to sharpen country action plans for child survival.

Scottish lawmakers are significantly sharpening their country's charity law, in the hope of doing down the most expensive private schools.That sounds ominous for independent schools south of the border.

They intend to push Britain's bid for the 2006 World Cup and its presence on the Internet, to try to sharpen the country's image.But is the British Council right to redouble its re-branding efforts?

Turkey's increasingly autocratic president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has done his bit to sharpen the country's deepening political, ethnic and social fault lines.

He said his business experience, dealing with corruption in Russia and other countries, sharpened his interest in fostering openness and investigative journalism.

In fact, latent dissatisfactions sharpened when the countries in the region began to understand that NATO wasn't just a security guarantee: It was a set of obligations.

Arab nationalism is another major factor that was reinvigorated in the wake of Arab Spring, and as a result, discrimination against Christians was sharpened in certain countries, including Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

She said that the controversy had only sharpened interest in the countries he was visiting, and that some talks were already booked to capacity.

It has canceled previously scheduled reunions of families separated by the heavily armed border between the two countries and sharpened its tone toward the Bush administration.

Welcome to the annual ritual that has university development officers across the country sharpening their utensils.