Sentence examples for sharpened the division from inspiring English sources

The real hero seemed to be a leader untainted by realism, Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chávez, who arrived three days later.Lula's compromises have sharpened the division between those who think the current order can be fixed and those who insist it must be overthrown.

And the prospects for a settlement may be worsening, because the European Union's offer of membership for the island has sharpened the division between its two parts.Nobody knows how many people in northern Cyprus are Turkish immigrants, as opposed to native Cypriots, but the balance is shifting.

Other nations saw that as an opportunity to bring their wishes to the table, and the ensuing talks have sometimes sharpened the divisions.

This distinction helped sharpen the division between what is necessarily so, which could be explored by reason, and what God has revealed about himself and his relations with humankind.

This will only sharpen the divisions between secularists and the church, said Mr. Kucharczyk.

Now, the blackout and the urgent demand from Washington to ensure that it is not repeated are sharpening the divisions as the industry reaches a critical point pregnant with opportunity -- and risk.

Nixon's campaign against McGovern sharpened the Democrats' internal divisions over civil rights and Vietnam, and, Buckley wrote, revealed that the Democrats had "an indifference toward national independence and a hostility toward national freedom".

A familiar fault line has emerged: "The euro crisis has sharpened the focus on old divisions over the role of the state in the economy and in people's lives," said Ute Frevert, director of the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.

The Napoleonic setback and royalist restorations throughout the 19th century sharpened the minds, created deep national divisions, but also prepared for the glorious revolutionary episodes of the second republic (1848-1852) and the Commune (1870).

The victory sharpened the Yankees' perspective.

The rebellion has sharpened divisions between the mostly Christian south, the Muslim north and the immigrants who make up a quarter of Ivory Coast's 16 million people.