On the narrower measure, as East Asia experienced a sharp drop in poverty rates, there was a persistent rise in the numbers elsewhere.

What if other factors say, a sharp decline in emerging market growth led to a sharp rise in global real interest rates, or a rise in risk premia on Japanese debt? In principle, Japan could weather such shocks without high inflation or other extreme measures, but it is folly to deny the country s vulnerability.

Will a sharp dollar depreciation cause exports to rise and imports to fall? Will a rapid rise in the inflation rate reduce the real value of government, household, and commercial debt, leading to lower saving and more spending?

ROME A severe food crisis currently threatens southern Sudan. In East Africa, where millions of people already are dependent on food aid, a sharp rise in the cost of staple crops looms.

The basic situation has been clear for years. Global use of fossil fuels is contributing to a sharp rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide, which is causing the Earth to warm.

While the sharp rise in oil prices during 2004 led to windfall revenues for oil exporting countries, its impact on the global economy was limited.

We climbed a sharp slope.

MUMBAI The ongoing weakness of America s economy where deleveraging in the private and public sectors continues apace has led to stubbornly high unemployment and sub par growth. The effects of fiscal austerity a sharp rise in taxes and a sharp fall in government spending since the beginning of the year are undermining economic performance even more.

These two positive factors have helped offset the negative impact of the sharp rise in the Canadian dollar since the end of 2002 on Canada's exports of manufactured goods.

Similarly, any financial institution that bets on a sharp rise in long term interest rates over the next five years in a serious, leveraged way also puts its survival at risk. For where should they park their money?

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

A sharp crack of thunder split the sky.

Stay sharp.

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

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

Kanzi chooses a flake he thinks is sharp enough.

The soldier kept a sharp lookout in the darkness.

C sharp is blue, F sharp is green, another tone might be yellow, right?

You are sharp.

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

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

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

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

All of a sudden, we heard the sharp cry of a cat.

All of a sudden, I felt a sharp pain in my stomach.

Curves against sharp things.

It's ten o'clock sharp.

However, the Court was still facing a number of challenges, in particular the sharp decrease in anticipated voluntary contributions for 2005 and beyond and the predicted rise in security costs owing to the drawdown of all troops from UNAMSIL by December 2005.

We need a sharp focus on conventional balance and arms control.

The needle is particularly sharp.

The knife is not sharp.

This knife is very sharp.

Be careful. It's very sharp.

Next, a sharp rise in the price of food exports, heavily taxed in Argentina, augmented government revenues, providing the cash to finance increased expenditure. Given Argentina s isolation from world financial markets, its central bank could cut domestic interest rates with limited fear of capital flight.

But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

Blessed at the start with a very low inflation rate in the euro area, the common currency soon faced a series of one off shocks. The biggest impact initially came from sharply rising oil prices and later from a rapidly weakening exchange rate, which led to a sharp rise in import prices.

This knife is not sharp enough.

During the past decade, drug abuse had been on a sharp upward trend.

Real GDP growth reached 4.1 in the third quarter of 2013, and fourth quarter growth appears to have been relatively strong, driven by a dramatic rise in housing starts and industrial production. The sharp increases in the prices of homes and equities contributed to a roughly 6 trillion rise in real household wealth in the 12 months ending in September 2013 a harbinger of increased consumer spending (at least by higher wealth households) in 2014.

Dangerous changes in climate have already begun. If the world continues on its current trajectory, global temperatures will eventually rise by several degrees centigrade, causing higher sea levels, mega storms, severe heat waves, massive crop failures, extreme droughts, heavy flooding, and a sharp loss of biodiversity.

Other economies are growing at relatively high rates, too. As a result, while many advanced and developing countries are pursuing far reaching measures to increase energy efficiency and adopt clean energy technologies, their existing technologies, incentives, regulations, and commitments imply a sharp rise in total carbon emissions in the coming decades.

The third, and perhaps most important, factor underpinning recent changes in corporate governance has been the sharp rise in cross border investing. Sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, global investment banks, and hedge funds do not invest only in their own backyard.

This is a parasitic wasp, again, two millimeters long, slender, a very quick and sharp flier.

His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.