These developments first convergence, and now faster services growth stand in sharp contrast with earlier trends.

This stands in sharp contrast to the US, where half of all R D is associated with services. Enough said.

This announcement was a sharp contrast with the former official doctrine that Indonesia was a wingewest (region for making profit).

This stands in sharp contrast to the communist mainland, which has reinvented itself to become one of world s more open, competitive, and dynamic economies.

The long term implications of the agreement stand in sharp contrast both to Obama s February 2010 budget proposal and to the Republicans counter proposal.

It can be done the suffering of the victims is in sharp contrast to the trillion dollars wasted annually on all kinds of armaments.

Farmers would gain a sense of ownership in counter narcotics efforts, in sharp contrast to the current idealistic and evidently un achievable policy of crop eradication.

Ms. Donna Sharp, Senior Partner, Sharp Global Partners Ltd., United States

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Sharp stones are under him he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

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The knife is not sharp.

This knife is very sharp.

This knife is very sharp.

Come at ten o'clock sharp.

Yet this is the same state dominated development model that came under heavy criticism at this year s CDF and that stands in sharp contrast to the more market driven alternative that has gained broad consensus among senior Chinese leaders.

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This move attracted sharp criticisms online.

The Indian response was swift and sharp.

But the division is not that sharp.

This lending squeeze resulted in a sharp drop in GDP and employment, while the sharp sell off in assets ensured further declines.

The uncomfortable truth is that Chinese households have benefited far too little from the country s economic growth miracle. Indeed, households share of national income has declined considerably in the last decade, in sharp contrast to the advanced economies, where households share is consistently high.

But, in less than two months, the almost mythic power of the region s most powerful army has been dented, and Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah s leader, has come across as a steadfast and determined leader, in sharp contrast to the usual behavior of heads of Arab government.

I looked away and heard a sharp scream.

The words were simple yet sharp and touching

In music, sharp, dièse (from French), or diesis (from Greek) means higher in pitch and the sharp symbol raises a note by a half tone.

Moreover, the gap between growth in services and growth in manufacturing and construction widened over the first two quarters of 2013, following annual gains of 8.1 in both sectors in 2012. These developments first convergence, and now faster services growth stand in sharp contrast with earlier trends.

He's at the sharp knife edge of this problem.

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

The sharp fiscal retrenchment that has now started throughout southern Europe should contribute further to a sharp deceleration, if not outright fall, in domestic demand there.

How sharp of hearing , how sharp of sight they will be when they come to Us . But today , these evil doers are obviously lost in error .

Global warming highlights this contrast.

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Fortunately, Straw s example does not pose such a sharp dilemma.

Asia and Europe have experienced sharp falls in fertility rates.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.

They also often offer examples of sharp contrasts in achievements.

Europe, by contrast, is clearly lagging.

Egypt, by contrast, is relatively homogeneous.