were sharpening

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sharpen

The empire and the traitors, full of hatred, were sharpening their daggers with those who wanted to put the revolutionaries to the sword and recover the country's riches.	El imperio y los traidores, llenos de odio, afilaban los puñales con los que pensaban pasar a cuchillo a los revolucionarios y recuperar las riquezas del país.
Old man... you were sharpening a sword just now, weren't you?	Pops estás afilando una espada en estos momentos, ¿verdad?
Then there were a lot of debates that were sharpening up on the campus and in activist circles.	Por otra parte, en la universidad y en los círculos militantes se estaban dando debates importantes.
However, while the factors for a revolutionary situation were sharpening and converging in a very explosive and powerful way, the crucially needed leadership that could develop it towards a revolutionary goal was lacking.	Sin embargo, aunque se estaban intensificando y convergiendo de modo muy explosivo y poderoso los factores para una situación revolucionaria, faltaba la dirección crucialmente necesaria para desarrollarla hacia una meta revolucionaria.