(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.
Stirk
Definition:
(n.) A young bullock or heifer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Graham Stirk on the roof of the Leadenhall building, also known as the Cheesegrater.
(2) Leadenhall Building at 122 Leadenhall Street, otherwise know as the Cheesegrater, facing the Lloyds building Photograph: David Levene Since Lloyd's, Stirk thinks there has been an increase in the "homogeneity" of architecture.
(3) A. McKeating, S. Stagno, P. R. Stirk, and P. D. Griffiths, J. Med.
(4) The 47-storey, 224m skyscraper, designed by Graham Stirk of Rogers Stirk Harbour and partners – is still empty, with the first tenants due to move in early next year.
(5) This is accompanied by a stirking rise in the incidence of asthma.
(6) But, said Stirk, the buildings had "their DNA and an evolutionary path" in common.
(7) In 2007 the Richard Rogers Partnership became Rogers, Stirk, Harbour + Partners, reflecting the influence of younger colleagues Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour, and Rogers says that while there is a public demand to have one person out front, "of course it doesn't work like that.
(8) The building's exposed innards caused widespread palpitations when it was built in the 1980s and Stirk recalled "a very, very mixed reaction".
(9) One key reason for the difference, Stirk explains, is that the latter was designed for a client while Leadenhall was designed for British Land, a speculative developer.
(10) "Cities go through cycles," said Simon Smithson, a partner at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners , and head of the practice's Latin American projects.
(11) The services and lifts are all encased in a glazed "cassette" on one side of the building rather than being exposed, which Stirk describes as a "jellyfish" effect.
(12) Photograph: David Levene "When I look at Lloyd's, it is amazingly dense," said Stirk.
(13) Photograph: Courtesy of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners A recent London housing project, One Hyde Park, has caused controversy in its construction of some of the most expensive homes in the world with little public access.
(14) Whatever the truth, Project Blue (Guernsey) Ltd, which was set up by the Qatar royal family , announced today that it has withdrawn its planning application for a set of sleek, hi-tech towers designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour , a firm that, however impressive on a good day (think Lloyd's of London Building or the Welsh Assembly ), does everything Prince Charles and his train of classical revivalists believe shouldn't be done.
(15) Now, one of Rogers' senior partners, Stirk has overseen the design of Leadenhall.
(16) The triangular glass-clad tower, designed by Richard Rogers’ firm Rogers Stirk Harbour, is officially named the Leadenhall building.
(17) "Offices are the most difficult buildings to design as an architect," Stirk said.
(18) "I am sure that in their meeting, the Prince of Wales expressed his dislike for the Rogers Stirk Harbour Partnership's design, and the emir politely concurred," said Vos.