Sentence examples for sharpening concern from inspiring English sources

JERUSALEM — Israel's Supreme Court on Monday rejected appeals for the release of two Palestinian prisoners who have been on a hunger strike for 69 days to protest their incarceration without formal charges, sharpening concern for their lives and raising the specter of widespread unrest in the event of a death.

Rice noted that the escalating violence was sharpening concerns over Syria's undeclared stockpile of chemical weapons, believed to be the largest of its kind in the Middle East.

Although the messages received by the national Olympics offices continued to sharpen concern about security at the Games next month, the International Olympic Committee said the anonymous warnings lacked credibility.

The breach and its potential ties to Russian hackers are likely to sharpen concern, so far unproven, that Moscow is attempting to meddle in U.S. elections.

Mahmoud Abbas's decision to stand down as Palestinian president has sharpened concerns that the moribund peace process is now facing a terminal crisis.

The attacks sharpened concerns that sectarian violence was pushing the country toward a conflagration similar to the widespread fighting of 2006 and 2007, before the withdrawal of American forces.

Similarly, some prominent American critics, including Alfred Kazin, Lionel Trilling, Kenneth Burke, Philip Rahv, and Irving Howe, began as political radicals in the 1930s and sharpened their concern for literature on the dilemmas and disillusionments of that era.

What he's seen the Russians do in Ukraine over the last few years sharpens his concern.

Troubling news articles in The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post sharpen these concerns.

But the sheer brutality of the onslaught on Aleppo has served also to sharpen humanitarian concerns.

Amadou Diallo was barely mentioned, but the case that has gone nationwide has sharpened local concerns.