They pass through peelers and hit the rotary slicers metal cylinders with sharpened blades around the edges.
In recent weeks, the drumbeat of criticism of Bush administration foreign policies has sharpened considerably.
It also sharpened the growing divide between Hindus and Sikhs, which remains a source of conflict.
There is still a sign in the window that says that skates can be sharpened inside.
American concern about terrorism in Africa is sharpened by a growing need for African oil.
"It's challenging to keep the taste buds engaged, but it keeps them sharpened, " he said.
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He sharpened his speaking skills over many, many hours of practice spanning three decades.
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But the veteran is struggling to regain his former zip and the knives are undoubtedly being sharpened.
She paused for a moment, then she leaned toward me, and when she did her whole face sharpened.
England's World Cup-winning number eight sharpened his rugby skills during his school days at Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire.
And while the Illinois State Senate sharpened its axe, Mr Blagojevich toured the TV studios, still pleading his innocence.
If estimated rates are required, incentives to report accurately need to be sharpened.
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The incidents sharpened concerns about Shell's plans to drill in the Arctic, both among environmentalists and in native Alaskan communities.
" His finance director, Takeshi Suzuki, who carries a freshly sharpened red pencil to meetings, says, "Toyota needs to be ready.
But his recent behaviour has sharpened doubts that have long been lurking.
When integration has been discouraged, as with the descendants of slaves liberated shortly before those European immigrants arrived, differences have been sharpened.
Netanyahu's intellectual journey shaped and sharpened his perception of the Jewish condition.
Thanks in part to a sharpened corporate focus, that vision is at last becoming real with the company's first, honest-to-goodness smartphone range.
Inside, the 318-year-old high-end knife company, called Burza, meticulously handcrafts gorgeous artisan knifes fashioned from Austrian steel and sharpened with Swiss diamonds.
The east's suspicions were sharpened by the arrest in April of Boris Kolesnikov over the allegedly violent takeover of a Donetsk department store.
But it is true too that DeLay "has sharpened the issue, " says Peter King of New York, the leading Republican proponent of censure.
The imperative has been sharpened by what Singapore sees as the frustratingly slow pace of trade liberalisation internationally despite the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Lula's compromises have sharpened the division between those who think the current order can be fixed and those who insist it must be overthrown.
The struggle is sharpened, though, because the advent of the euro has propelled European companies into a frenzy of mergers and takeovers, intensifying competition.
Even before the members had sharpened a pencil or clicked a mouse, the committee was shunted into a legal siding where it has remained unused.
The dilemma sharpened in late April when inflation figures were published.
In a study published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience in 2011, researchers found that exposure to another person's stress sweat sharpened alertness.
Speaking to the Institute for Government, the Cabinet Office minister said the civil service has "great strengths" but accountability to ministers needs to be "sharpened".
This week's primaries have this sharpened the situation in both parties?
If the predominant noises from Capitol Hill are those of pruning shears being sharpened, then we will know the austerity wing of the GOP is prevailing.
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