Example sentences of "at [art] sharp end " in BNC.
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| 1 | For criminologists surely ‘ can never be successfully involved at the sharp end , or pointy end , dealing with angry men on the cold , hard streets ’ ( from fieldnotes ) . |
| 2 | Since it was his turn at the sharp end , Mick set out on what we thought would be the crux of the route . |
| 3 | And all of this is inevitable , for Utopians are ill at ease at the sharp end of politics . |
| 4 | All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies . |
| 5 | It was like Poor Cow or Cathy Come Home except that the woman at the sharp end of the social services was also the author . |
| 6 | She believes that with your practical experience at the sharp end in Europe you will be able to provide much needed ammunition to support her appeal which is to be submitted to the Commission and the Council of Ministers . |
| 7 | He was the fourth of twelve speakers over the three day conference , the others being Ministers , Commissioners , Economists and Academics , and had been introduced by the Chairman as ‘ The Man at the Sharp End ’ . |
| 8 | Mark listened aghast at the naive and dangerous idealism of the young , starry-eyed politician , who was light years away from knowing what really went on at the sharp end of European and international trade . |
| 9 | All of this is a testimonial to the belief that when the emphasis is placed on the practical experiences of individuals and communities rather than on ideologies , and when the grassroots leadership of people is developed rather than theories and constitutions , then workable solutions can be developed which are adapted for both local and the national situation by those people who have to put these solutions into practice at the sharp end of the stick . |
| 10 | Now he was back at the sharp end . |
| 11 | Those that are at the sharp end of developments should get immediate feedback when criticisms arise but the relaying of complaints ought not to be an exercise in apportionment of blame . |
| 12 | Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end . |
| 13 | But its major effect was to make life slightly more tolerable for those at the sharp end of the beat system . |
| 14 | A man at the sharp end of the drive to put information technology to work in Britain , Cracknell was commenting on plans by a big American semiconductor firm to expand its operations in the town . |
| 15 | Now I 'm working to save the earth , ’ says Mitsu Kimata , who is at the sharp end of Body Shop 's thrust into Japan . |
| 16 | My experience also spans the full spectrum of aircraft maintenance within the RAF from turning them around for the next flight at the sharp end , through the deeper repair at station level to the major repair at remote sites . |
| 17 | In any case , the name of the game here seems to be performance-friendly and so you are immediately in at the sharp end with patch number 11 . |
| 18 | I wanted to invite Virginia back to the unit to show her what these rationalisations will really mean at the sharp end . |
| 19 | Recording a verdict of suicide , coroner David Morris said : ‘ It is easy enough to criticise the bank as a body — there is always someone at the sharp end . |
| 20 | She had suffered at the sharp end of the tongues of some of Dej 's more sophisticated barons ' wives in the 1950s and Dej 's favourite daughter did not respect her . |
| 21 | The effect of these changes will be far-reaching and transport will , in many respects , be at the sharp end . |
| 22 | The video emphasises the need all staff , but particularly young staff at the sharp end , have for positive feedback . |
| 23 | Flexible working is an added opportunity to provide even more refinement by allowing staff at the sharp end to make their own judgements about staffing levels on a day-to-day basis . |
| 24 | But he gets the best : the person who provides the real thing ( a contribution to profitability ) , the person who 's been at the sharp end and actually cut a profit from the edge . |
| 25 | In England pop culture has a simultaneous function — inextricably intertwined to a degree unmatched anywhere else in the world of exploitation and expression : exploitation as the product of an industry at the sharp end of the new conditions of capitalism , expression by virtue of its position — which has occurred by default — as the main area of activity in our society which freely admits voices of both youth and change . |
| 26 | Those working at the sharp end will be able to add from their own experience . |
| 27 | To begin with , in the evenings and mornings , during stroll time ( the suit , the stick ) , all the people tended to gather at the sharp end of the ship , looking at where they came from , as people do . |
| 28 | Desktop Publishing At The Sharp End |
| 29 | In making this break with tradition , James , it seems , had come to the conclusion that it was time for the intellectual elite to shut up and listen to the workers for a change for it was they who were at the sharp end of the production system and therefore they who first sensed any changes in patterns of production . |
| 30 | The pyramid system means that the operating unit is at the sharp end of action and is supported by a very broad base of other services which in turn are supported by others all the way down to the base of the pyramid . |