#sharply

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself. ↗

— Mark Twain

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I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles. ↗

— Fred Ward

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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out. ↗

— Stuart Symington

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In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

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Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. ↗

— John McCain

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One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them. ↗

— Olin Miller

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It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do. ↗

— Leonard Alfred George Strong

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