Noun
sharp power (uncountable)
sharp power on Wikipedia
(politics) The use of manipulative diplomatic policies by one country to influence and undermine the political system of a target country.
With his sharp power of vision, resolute power of action, I doubt not he could have learned to write Books withal, and speak fluently enough;-he did harder things than writing of Books. This kind of man is precisely he who is fit for doing manfully all things you will set him on doing. Thomas Carlyle