For comparison, it sharpens finely enough to cut phone-book paper, but you have to really work at getting a good edge. |
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This broad and undulating ridge gradually narrows and eventually sharpens to a knife edge just below the rocky summit slopes. |
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According to Lilly, this pale violet star sharpens the understanding, memory, and makes men industrious. |
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And I think when the economic message sharpens on health care, the economy, job creation, you'll see the race tighten. |
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Reducing the phase aberrations introduced when the wavefront travels through atmosphere to a telescope sharpens the resultant image. |
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She sharpens her skills at practice in preparation for a pair of weekend games. |
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Keeping yourself in the game sharpens your skill set, which ultimately makes you a better employee, even in your current job. |
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Evolution sharpens and refines their ability to lie about themselves. |
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From the moment their grans pop the first illicit chocolate button in their drooling mouths, children are hooked, and parental censure only sharpens their appetite. |
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Combat engineer Spr Marc Doyon sharpens his prodding skills during section training. |
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The adoption of a common framework based in Human Rights sharpens the focus of efforts to align school improvement with civic purpose. |
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But it also sharpens the clash between two very ways of approaching history. |
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This coarsens the quantization on fast-moving areas and sharpens it on plain areas and on areas with a high red content. |
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The exclusion of the unessential sharpens the sense for the essential: Scent and Taste. |
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This electromechanical behavior enhances the amplitude of vibration and sharpens the frequency selectivity of the cochlear partition in response to sound. |
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The pure process of cycling undoubtedly brings about a much closer relationship with the countryside, and sharpens one's senses of hearing and smell. |
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There's something about this time of year that somehow sharpens the sense of sadness that seems part and parcel of the bitter-sweet experience of Christmas time. |
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This sharpens the realization that a manager needs to broaden his intellectual outlook. |
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Volvo enhances and sharpens the bucket's point of attack with a versatile and robust tooth system. |
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In this way a capacity for dialogue is exercised which sharpens one's own witness to the faith and gains new perspective on the divine reality. |
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In addition to the generally rigorous approach, the 1997 budget proposal sharpens the profile of Community expenditure. |
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The crisis automatically sharpens competition, and is even capable of transforming it into economic war. |
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France Telecom Mobiles sharpens its leadership thanks to ongoing innovation. |
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The abolition of frontiers will make it easier to export but at the same time sharpens competition from imports. |
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Blokus® 3D sharpens critical-thinking skills as players strategically construct three-dimensional structures block by block. |
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In acquiring knowledge, women learn about their rights and this sharpens their awareness. |
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In apprehending and responding to contemporaneity, Shahryar emerges as a poet who sharpens the contours of modernism by asserting the establishment of new poetics. |
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On the opposite side of the alley, sparks leap out of a lathe machine as a young man wearing protective goggles sharpens metal. |
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His adaptation retains the honesty and lyricism of the book but sharpens it up into a riveting confessional stream of crackling, dinner conversation-sharp dialogue. |
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The wall of umber air thins for a span and the city sharpens. |
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She assembles a bow with a string on it, and sharpens a cylindrical spindle of lime wood, then inserts it into a notched hole in a flat piece of wood she holds with her foot. |
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Nothing sharpens the wits so much as a passion out of the common. |
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Towards these ends, they should adopt a more selective approach that sharpens the focus and improves the effectiveness of their operations. |
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The sharing of history also sharpens our vision and strengthens our endurance. |
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An extremely precise guiding system, also developed by HIA, not only sharpens the images but also ensures the instrument captures most of the light from distant targets. |
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The sport-tuned suspension sharpens the car s moves without harshening the ride. |
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As the night passes, industrial amounts of hard drink are downed, everybody rolls up their sleeves, sharpens their knives and deals with the past – in all its golden light and conflicting memories. |
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The campaigners' hope is that, as public disenchantment sharpens, it will take in a scepticism about over-mighty criminal-justice policy as well as about economic oversight. |
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No problem: mixing charm, toughness and impeccable fluency, Ms Sturgeon breezed it. Her success does not change the political picture, but it sharpens the colours in several ways. |
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The Treaty of Lisbon which entered into force on 1 December 2009 sharpens the European Union's foreign and security policy profile and strengthens Europe's capability of taking action. |
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When competition sharpens, if farmers have an opportunity to sell their land to the cities rather than continue to grow food, they will take the opportunity. |
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When it sharpens the image, you can't unsharpen it again without losing data. |
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The Barcelona Summit in March 2002 reviewed the progress towards this goal and sharpens the focus in particular to stimulate employment and improve social cohesion. |
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By setting the senses in motion, it creates a memory which sharpens the sensitivity of the child and makes him or her more receptive to other forms of knowledge, notably scientific knowledge. |
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This sharpens the cost awareness and results orientation of employees. |
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He levels out the irrelevancies and sharpens the features to be accented. |
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At the line His knife see rustic Labour dicht, the speaker normally draws and sharpens a knife. |
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You get at least three singles matches, you get the mixed doubles as well, which is good fun, it sharpens up the net game. |
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. |
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