That sharpens the pressure from Republicans to either allow the sequester to take effect or to find alternate spending cuts.

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That sharpens the election, but it does no harm to his campaign.

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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.

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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.

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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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