(adv.) Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mind.
(v. t.) To stiffen.
Example Sentences:
(1) World leaders must reach a historic agreement to fight climate change and poverty at coming talks in Paris, facing the stark choice to either “improve or destroy the environment”, Pope Francis said in Africa on Thursday.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest No shake: Donald Trump snubs Angela Merkel during photo op The piece of pantomime was in stark contrast to the visit of Theresa May in January.
(3) But as a former Eurocrat, he is well-versed in the weaknesses and believes it is right to highlight them in stark language.
(4) These achievements, and faults, will find stark contrast with Trump’s administration; certainly Trump’s nominations for key positions in his cabinet that relate to climate change have prompted alarm by experts and campaigners.
(5) An ethnic breakdown of other opinion-formers, from book reviewers to theatre critics, would be just as stark.
(6) Paul*, from Essex, a father of two daughters, has experienced those starkly differing standards.
(7) Friends of the Earth's executive director, Andy Atkins, said: "We can't continue to ignore the stark warnings of the catastrophic consequences of climate change on the lives and livelihoods of people across the planet.
(8) She went on to deliver a stark warning that leaving the single market would deter international investors from Britain and lead major companies to question whether they should relocate to mainland Europe.
(9) This was in stark contrast to my comprehensive school.
(10) Their differences highlight Northern Ireland’s often stark dichotomy between religious-based social conservatism and secular progressive liberalism.
(11) By global city standards even those are quite clean and orderly, but compared with the rest of the city they offer a stark contrast.
(12) Dig deeper into the funding numbers – the real story of national politics in the post Citizens United age – and the Tea Party realignment of the GOP stands out yet more starkly.
(13) The inequalities that have been allowed to emerge in this one street are so stark they recall an era as long past as the period of its houses.
(14) A glance at today's Sun provides a stark reminder that constitutional reform is no way to win easy plaudits from the papers that most voters read.
(15) Although the Kyoto agreement only measures production, the stark difference in the figures highlights a key controversy in negotiations about a new treaty – which will continue at a big UN meeting in Cancún, Mexico, in December : some developing countries, such as China, argue they should not be held responsible for emissions generated by consumption in rich nations.
(16) It is a stark contrast to expectations before the vote to leave the EU, when the next move in interest rates was seen as likely to be upwards.
(17) The next few days may well determine whether, this time, such loyalty will be in vain; but, while yearning for a clarion call and what was described as "vision" in this paper's leading article yesterday, I need to pose some pretty stark questions to Guardian readers.
(18) They included Lena Heady (Queen Cersei Lannister), Kit Harington (Jon Snow), Conleth Hill (Lord Varys), Rose Leslie (Ygritte), 17-year-old Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) and 18-year-old Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark).
(19) The orderly village of Agulodiek in Ethiopia's western Gambella region stands in stark contrast to Elay, a settlement 5km west of Gambella town, where collapsed straw huts strewn with cracked clay pots lie among a tangle of bushes.
(20) The next three years of negotiations on the treaty will be the hardest in the 20-year history of climate change talks because the world has changed enormously since 1992, when the UN convention on climate change was signed, and 1997, when the Kyoto protocol enshrined a stark division between developed countries – which were required to cut emissions – and developing countries, which were not.
Starkers
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A unilateral UK move would create even starker problems of domestic and international presentation, particularly if such action were to contrast with continued congressional reluctance to fund modernisation.” It observed that the military chiefs of staff believed the only effective and credible deterrent to Soviet use of chemical weapons was “the ability to retaliate in kind”.
(2) but it is hard to imagine that they will unite the nation in the way they did in the past, for they have been bought at the cost of making Brazil's injustices starker than ever.
(3) But the disconnect between the report’s recommendations and reality was only made starker as senior government figures refused to guarantee the rights of the 3 million EU citizens in the UK, further fuelling fears that have arisen since 23 June.
(4) As Brown and Simpson point out, Scoop still has much to offer to journalists and general readers, but a word of warning – it is littered with racist terms which will offend modern sensibilities (though that racism is far starker in Waugh in Abyssinia than in Scoop).
(5) One of the MPs' main conclusions was that inequalities long evident across companies in the UK were even starker in the financial sector.
(6) America finds itself today in a period of extreme political polarisation, in which the differences between the two parties have perhaps rarely – if ever – been starker.
(7) It is hard to think of a starker failure in domestic government since the poll tax.
(8) Cohn was his Virgil who guided him through the netherworlds of New York influence,” he added, “which led to Trump, among others, who was not much of a power broker at the time.” Stone, in an interview with the Washington Post, put it in even starker terms: “I think, to a certain extent, Donald learned how the world worked from Roy, who was not only a brilliant lawyer, but a brilliant strategist who understood the political system and how to play it like a violin.” Murdoch and Trump were still coming up in the world, but Cohn was approaching the height of his power.
(9) The slowdown in labor productivity has been even starker.
(10) Against a backdrop of record youth unemployment and graduate debt, the moral case is even starker.
(11) These statistics are even starker for minority teens, who comprise about 70% of the students at schools with SBHCs at them.
(12) His language is much starker than the tone adopted by the prime minister, who aims to revive his premiership this autumn by explaining how he will help struggling families through the downturn.
(13) The contrast between the ugly pigeons and the pretty swallow could hardly be starker or more telling.
(14) The pre-crisis slowdown is likely to have been even starker if we looked only at working-age households."
(15) And if race is added to class, the gap is starker still.
(16) In March the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published the volume on adaptation of its fifth assessment report , confirming in starker terms forecasts first outlined by scientists in 1990.
(17) Focusing more specifically on the benefit system, the contrast becomes even starker.
(18) The difference with the general population is even starker when it comes to specific health issues.
(19) No, the starker conclusion is that it is not so much a particular generation as a particular stratum of society that will be hardest hit: the children of the middle classes – those whose parents are too well off to qualify for state help, but whose means are not sufficient to guarantee a comfortable life.
(20) The contrast between the deep cuts to public services in the name of austerity and the increase in the MoD’s budget in the name of security could not be starker.