sharp relief
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsharpandrelief
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sharp
adjective
uk/ʃɑːp/us/ʃɑːrp/
having a thin edge or point that can cut something or make a hole ...
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relief
noun
uk/rɪˈliːf/us/rɪˈliːf/
a feeling of happiness that something unpleasant has not happened or ...
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(Definition ofsharpandrelieffrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In another attempt to define the situation, they are thrown intosharprelief.
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Instead of coupling democracy with technological progress, the bridge had placed them both insharprelief.
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Thrown intosharpreliefhere is the whole question of the hegemonic role of the library.
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Apparently, the experimental method adopted here throws intosharpreliefthe differences between the two forms of input.
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His appearances provoked a trenchant public reaction, one that throws theoretical insights and conclusions intosharprelief.
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The community charge will draw that intosharprelief.
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It throws intosharpreliefthe dilemma facing local communities.
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It throws some of the differences intosharprelief.
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It has thrown those matters into stark andsharprelief.
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It throws intosharpreliefthe constitutional change.
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Yet little is said about the violence of the acts themselves, which are brought intosharpreliefby the illustrations in the book.
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Such assumptions were thrown into unusuallysharpreliefby the phenomenon of a female king, not least when she chose to marry a foreign prince.
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Yet the adult conspicuously eschews the child's selection of womans in favour of women, and the contrast in usage between the two forms is thrown intosharprelief.
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It puts the harsh profile of growing problems of poverty insharprelief.
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In common with other families today, the incident will be brought intosharprelief.
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I am able to cite some recent examples which have thrown the issue intosharprelief.
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The issues throw intosharpreliefthe difficulties associated with work force planning.
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The report of the friends puts the issues intosharprelief.
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That brings intosharpreliefthe need to work for further progress.
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These figures throw up insharpreliefthe problem to which we seek to draw attention.
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Three key factors which cannot be neglected in social service debates stand out insharprelief.
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The accident throws intosharpreliefthe risks associated with oil and gas supply works out at sea.
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All that is thrown intosharpreliefby the contrast with the consultation times experienced in the private sector.
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