But playing against the green and gold of the Springboks usually sharpens the senses.
Privatisation sharpens the contrast between profitable inter-city express trains and loss-making rural and suburban ones.
But nothing shapes and sharpens a pro athlete's career like the postseason, and Lundqvist is thriving.
Apple Computer announces faster Power Macs, sharpens its flat-panel displays and slashes prices on both.
Social inclusion sharpens the MDG framework in the context of EU pre-accession countries such as BiH.
Unlike high-definition video, which can result in disconcerting detail (hello, pores), hi-res audio smooths more than it sharpens.
But to win we need to play because it sharpens our imagination and our ordinary selves become extraordinary.
While it sharpens our understanding of the issue, it leaves many unanswered questions.
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Vacation also promotes creative thinking, expands your cultural horizons and sharpens cognition, especially if you can travel to another country.
That sharpens the pressure from Republicans to either allow the sequester to take effect or to find alternate spending cuts.
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All the while, each team sharpens their skills, builds confidence and chemistry, and toughens up from overcoming the pressure, exhaustion, and setbacks.
That sharpens the election, but it does no harm to his campaign.
The possibility of further violence sharpens the dilemma for PNG's Supreme Court.
As data accumulate (usually by getting closer to the time of the event being predicted) he sharpens and then further sharpens the predictions offered.
It's the 3-D-like Rubik's 360, and it's probably good for brains of any age, because it sharpens flexible problem-solving skills, says neuropsychologist Karen Spangenberg Postal, Ph.
It tightens and sharpens its branding expressions as appropriate, but the essential Pepsi brand idea is still on its original trajectory and its customers remain Pepsi-strong.
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Tim Davie, head of audio and music at the BBC, points out that Radioplayer sharpens competition not only over programming but also over search data and algorithms.
News from the devolved Parliament in Scotland sharpens those fears.
But the commission's extreme tact only sharpens sensitivities all round.
Mr. Mekky's resignation sharpens the split between President Mohammed Morsi and the secular opposition, which has accused the Brotherhood of trying to impose its will over the country's independent institutions.
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Lopez rings the changes with levity and charm, and if each encounter leaves you wanting to know more, that only sharpens the melancholy of the film, the knowledge that satisfaction hangs just out of reach.
Fighting a lost cause sharpens one's opinions.
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"Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation, " Clinton said in a written statement from the White House.
It's an experience that sharpens the reflexes, and emphasises the enormous complexities and risks - from rival clan militias, freelance kidnappers, Islamist al-Shabab militants - facing those trying to help tackle the latest catastrophe to strike this wretched country.
This focus on narrator-as-witness sharpens our involvement, so that when the governess spots Miss Jessel, her deceased predecessor, standing on the far bank of a pond, the space between the two figures collapses, making the contact more intimate than if the ghost whispered directly into her ear.
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