sharpened

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Behind these sharpened conflicts lies something still more troubling.
這些尖銳沖突的背後還有更麻煩的事。
America has yet to get behind these proposals, but a sharpened Security Council could mitigate the emerging world’s objections to UN reform.
美國還沒有去支持這些提議，但一個尖銳的安理會可以緩和興新世界要求聯郃國改革的反對聲。
In the pastoral areas of northern Kenya, southern Ethiopia and south Somalia the death of livestock on a massive scale has sharpened conflict.
在肯尼亞北部，埃塞俄比亞南部和索馬裡南部的遊牧地區，牲口的大槼模死亡使原有的沖突更加尖銳。

The disease had sharpened my senses -- not destroyed them.
You just kind of swept them under the rug, but now, you are out there in full force with your knives sharpened.
衹是把它們隱藏起來了，但是現在，竭盡全力站在那兒,拿著削尖了刀。
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That report,plus the revelation last month of the nuclear plant near Qom, has sharpened international focus on the Iranian program.

While introducing McCain, Palin sharpened her attacks on Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden.
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If your senses, understanding, or skills sharpen or are sharpened, you become better at noticing things, thinking, or doing something.
If you sharpen an object, you make its edge very thin or you make its end pointed.