It is never comfortable to be at the sharp end of the political process.
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That doesn't mean it can't feel like the exact opposite for some of those at the sharp end.
Mr Wright said he wanted resources concentrated at the "sharp end" rather than "costly and often unnecessary red tape".
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For a body that works at society's sharp end, the hostel has many friends in high places, including banks.
My job at BABA is to ensure everything we do supports those at the sharp end: the boxers, their coaches and support teams.
Prof Smith has found himself at the sharp end of the slump - his department has been earmarked for closure by the university.
Scovell was at the sharp end of the war and unable to draw on expertise from London, and he did well with limited resources.
The conundrum that has shadowed Spain's presence in this tournament continued, with many more openings created but with no-one on the sharp end of the chances.
Even before the window had opened Newcastle found themselves at the sharp end of that "cut-throat industry" as Chelsea expressed an interest in signing Magpies striker Demba Ba.
"It is pretty clear that we have a huge problem about the exclusion of people who live at the sharp end of society from our political life, " he said of working class representation.
The Justice Committee will launch its new inquiry into Youth Justice with evidence from a phalanx of experts, and then from workers at the sharp end, from the Halton and Warrington Youth Offending Team.
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If European technocrats do have more of a role in micro-managing eurozone member states' budgets there would inevitably be pressure for the citizens at the sharp end to have some means of holding the decision makers to account.
But NCIS, which has been charged with handling them, has twice in the past three years found itself at the sharp end of critical official reports which - in essence - accuse the agency of messing up the SARs regime.
The "poison pill" is a strategy commonly used by management of a listed company to protect themselves from investors they fear may oust them following a takeover, and Mr Icahn has been on the sharp end more than once before.
Fisichella, who ran the Finn close in Spa with his racing instinct and raw speed, will be expected to do battle at the sharp end of the field at Monza, where the Ferraris, with the advantage of the power-boost Kers system, are expected to be competitive.
And at the sharp-end, this is why it has so many troops on the ground in the Balkans.
If yesterday's exchanges are anything to go by, debates on any such legislation could turn very nasty - not least because all MPs have direct sharp-end experience of how important the small print of the regulations can be.
These early tools closely resembled the knives we use today, consisting of a piece of metal that was sharp on one end--the blade--and dull on the other--the tang.
At the end of the day, your sound is all coming from one spot, so directionality isn't going to quite match a for-realsie surround sound setup, and the system we listened to was a little sharp in the high end, but it's certainly a unique and appealing offering from Mitsu to the everyman TV watcher.
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The New Deal was launched at the end of a sharp decline in the size of the target age-group of 18-24-year-olds.
If this were to occur, it would likely happen very quickly, meaning sharp losses in the closed-end fund income sector.
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And a sharp catch by Alastair Cook to end the Little Master's innings forced Sourav Ganguly to come out and face some more hostile bowling as England refused to accept defeat.
Even if the Eden-Mollet technique achieves what it is intended to achieve which is, presumably, a shock sharp enough to bring about the end of fighting, the fall of President Nasser and recovery of some permanent western authority over Suez Canal traffic the damage still promises to be out of proportion.
This 6-megapixel data stream oversamples the target image by 3x resulting in video as sharp as that of the high-end multi-sensor video cameras used in television studios.
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While gold could dip some more in the near term, other analysts also do not see the sharp retreat as the start of the end to the bull market.
It looks like one or more options traders selling puts in the front month and buying debit put spreads in the October contract see little danger of a sharp correction in the stock through the end of this week.
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Skipping straight to the end, money managers would also miss the sharp pullback in gold of the mid-1970s.
Zara made a small profit in the year to the end of January 2010, after recording a sharp loss during the previous year.
The bottom line is that we are likely to see more sharp jolts to the stock market between now and year-end.
Wall Street's securitization engine has been virtually shut down in the disruption to the credit markets caused by the sharp discounting of mortgage and mortgage-related securities since the end of June.
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