CAIRO (AP) -- As vote counting began in Egypt's election for the successor to Hosni Mubarak, the ruling military issued an interim constitution Sunday that handed themselves the lion's share of power over the new president, enshrining their hold on the state and sharpening the possibility of confrontation with the Muslim Brotherhood.
And as the focus sharpens on the possibility that foreign companies have used the Chamber of Commerce as a conduit for campaign donations, it's been handed the difficult task of drawing lines of distinctions.
The interval ( N, N + 1 ] is allowed to be coupled with 0 but not strictly coupled in Theorem 3.1, i.e. d N ≥ 0. This condition is sharpened and the possibility d N = 0 is excluded in a necessary and sufficient condition for positivity of (1).
Partisanship sharpens debate and opens the possibility of grand compromise.
This possibility sharpens the question, already raised by the paintings themselves, of whether Mr. Janas intends his pastiches as spoofs of known styles.
The Office of Fair Trading has sent 50 warning letters to doorstep lenders, ordering them to sharpen up their practices or face the possibility of fines, or even closure.
The possibility of an imminent indictment sharpens Andersen's dilemma concerning its role in the Enron affair.
Next year the possibility of peace with Spain sharpened his rivalry with the Cecils, while the growing seriousness of a major rebellion in Ireland led to bitter differences between Essex and Elizabeth over appointments and strategy.
Indeed, the possibility of a nuclear weapon's landing in rogue hands has forced the West to sharpen and pinpoint its intelligence efforts.
Papua New Guinea has also had its share of rioting, most recently in Lae, the country's second-largest city, when marauding youths left nine people dead.The possibility of further violence sharpens the dilemma for PNG's Supreme Court.
At the same time, Butler's conceptualization of gender, from a different ontological perspective regarding the possibility of a self, has added to the discussion of 'doing gender' in critical ways, helping to sharpen the focus on performativity (1).
