Sentence examples for sharpening over from inspiring English sources

Some hope a deal would open a channel for greater co-operation with Iran at a time when tensions between the country and powerful Gulf Arab states are sharpening over crises everywhere from Iraq to Syria and Yemen.

In the final part of the manuscript, the authors aim to resolve a difference between the output of their model, which yields multiple initial clusters resolving into one, and the model from Klunder et al., 2013, which showed a single initial broad peak sharpening over time, and conclude that the differences are due to parameter value choices.

His timing has sharpened over the years and his mistakes have decreased commensurately.

Analysts said the jobs report reduced optimism just as concerns had sharpened over credit conditions in Europe and the economy in China.

The dispute over Opel sharpened over the weekend when Labor Minister Olaf Scholz, a Social Democrat, said Sunday that it was the responsibility of the state to rescue Opel.

Like the headlight of a distant, oncoming car, this little patch of light will slowly brighten and sharpen over the eons.

But it also demonstrates that Israel's longstanding contest between secular and religious Jews is intensifying as the debate sharpens over what it means to live in a democratic state that is Jewish.

As the confrontation between the United States and Iraq sharpened over the last several months, the price of a barrel of oil jumped from the mid-$20's to almost $40 by early March, putting a serious drag on growth worldwide, economists say.

At the same time, arguments have sharpened over how much it will cost the economy to cut the emission of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels, which are linked to climate change.

It's that my eye for political bias in what should be objective news reporting has been acutely sharpened over the last decade by countless instances of an unmistakable leftward slant in the articles and headlines that appear (and don't appear) in The New York Times.

Still, the way Mr. McCain responded to the hurricane – from the moment he surprised convention organizers here by raising the possibility that he might suspend the convention to the decision to head to Mississippi — is perhaps the strongest evidence to date of how much his organization has sharpened over the summer.