This is a momentous occasion, and I would hope that despite the sharp partisan tone, which has marked this debate, we can approach it with a sober sense of the historic importance of this matter.

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Some of the experts on the panel issued sharp criticism about the tone of political discourse in France, including its recent debate on national identity and immigration.

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Analysts said the RBI's tone rules out sharp rate cuts in the next few months.

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In setting the scene Paul skewers the modish restaurant by adopting a tone that is slightly too sharp to be gentle mocking.

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Not helping the tone in the morning was a sharp downturn in the Sentix investor confidence survey for August.

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How do you have time to write, first of all, and how did you come up with the tone of these books, which are sharp, witty, but also have a lot of deep issues in them?

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This is a fantastically challenging piece, requiring not only a constant sharp focus on the technical demands, but also a refined flexibility of tone and timbre.

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