Likewise, the authors found that involvement in ethnically segregated student organizations sharpened perceptions of discrimination and aggravated conflict between groups.
In conclusion, the primary aims of this unit are to enhance the students' interpersonal skills; to achieve greater initiative; to sharpen perceptions of self and others; to be more self-directive in resolving personal life problems without abusing our bodies with drugs.
Here, in a poem called "On Waking in a Room and Not Knowing Where One Is", he writes of how dislocation sharpens perception: "Cities each have a kind of light, / a color even, / or a set of undertones / determined by the river or hills / as well as by the stones / of their countless buildings.
Hawking's own life and his heroic struggle with the debilitating effects of motor neurone disease have become braided into the world's response to A Brief History and many of his subsequent speculations, as if his suffering has somehow sharpened his perception of the cosmos and its mysteries.
Mr. Chen's foreign minister speaks of a new "human rights diplomacy" -- using such initiatives to multiply Taiwan's global contacts and, not coincidentally, sharpen perceptions of the difference between this free-speaking island and the Communist-ruled mainland that claims sovereignty over it.
He borrowed J.L. Austin's method of 'using a sharpened awareness of words to sharpen our perception of the phenomena' (Hart 1994, v, 14).
He found that the receptor cells in the eye are interconnected in such a way that when one is stimulated, others nearby are depressed, thus enhancing the contrast in light patterns and sharpening the perception of shapes.
It is really, at its core, about developing an understanding of the complex uses and effects of language, about sharpening our perception of human behaviour and about reasoned argument.
A fourth experiment investigated behavioral effects, demonstrating that stress samples sharpened emotion-perception of ambiguous facial stimuli.
She is not a runner — more of a plodder, she said — but training for this marathon sharpens her perceptions of life around her. "Sometimes when I'm running, I'll think of something beautiful, and I'd think of what my brother would like," Homer said.
But Mr. Clinton's main political goal was to sharpen the public perception of differences between Democrats and Republicans on environmental issues.
