Such laws draw sharp dividing lines between some residents and builders.

Where the strand met the water lay a line of gleaming silver, drawn sharp between the island and its image.

His resistance to drawing sharp contrasts with the front-runner is helping fuel growing talk among Democrats that Mr. Edwards's campaign is turning into one for vice president.

The writer Gildas drew sharp contrasts between the Christian Welsh at this time and the pagan Anglo-Saxon invaders.

And they contend they have always planned to draw sharp contrasts with Mr. Gore in the final days of the New Hampshire race.

'The arrows,' he mumbled, deaf to the question, 'must be hotforged and drawn sharp at Clatterford by the Arrowmaster who knows of the light!'

It is tempting to draw sharp contrasts between magic and science, just as it is between science and religion.

Tonight, he again defended advertisements that draw sharp contrasts, saying, "At the end of the day we have an obligation to let voters know the differences."

Some Democrats have complained that Mr. Edwards has failed to draw sharp contrasts with his rivals.

Grave Digger drew up sharp.