At the same time, concern has sharpened about Europe's growth possibilities, and much of it focuses on Germany's export surpluses, weak banks and bridled domestic consumption.
Wall Street's response has come as the debate within the oil and financial communities has sharpened about whether the 13 member countries of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries - most of which have been put in desperate financial straits by the year's plunging crude prices - will adhere to the two-month experiment.
That dark, sultry night in South Sudan, I thought a great deal about rights and oppression, about what happens when the worst impulses of men are stoked and sharpened, about what it means when a government turns on its own people.
From this perspective, it is important to sharpen about the awareness of the positive effects of these devices among coaches as well as the athletes themselves.
Re-sharpen about twice every mowing season.
The Post editorial ackowledges that the fraud in the recent Afghan presidential election is part of the issue here,"sharpening questions about whether the government can be a reliable partner".
CAIRO — The judge presiding over the criminal trial of former President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday ordered testimony from the top two officers in the ruling military council, sharpening doubts about whether the court is acting independently or is cooperating with the president's former allies.
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.
This is the kind of debate James and the Heat are now dribbling toward, shooting for, no matter Battier's insistence that "it's about standard of play, about sharpening who we are as we march toward the playoffs".
In recent discussions, Harris and Soto talked less about music and more about family, about faith, about men sharpening men.
