(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.
Thoroughgoing
Definition:
(a.) Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete.
(a.) Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; -- less common in this sense.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Stage III a thoroughgoing keratectomy parallel to the limbus was performed, in combination with cataract extraction and coreplasty.
(2) However, no one can genuinely believe in or live by this kind of thoroughgoing scepticism for one moment.
(3) The Greens have many admirable policies, but we look in vain for a thoroughgoing analysis for fundamental change.
(4) Despite its thoroughgoing Englishness, it won admirers in Australia, Canada and Europe.
(5) Our claim is based on what we describe as a thoroughgoing commonwealth involvement in the detention, such that it has become a commonwealth detention.” Transfield’s lawyers also gave evidence to the court on Thursday in defence of the validity of its contract.
(6) But this may be seen as part of a much more thoroughgoing transformation.
(7) Our experience with the ileal-neobladder with non-reflux uretero-intestinal implantation described by LeDuc, and Kock's the thoroughgoing application principles to form a low pressure reservoir for bladder substitution, encouraged us to believe that a good long-term prognosis with respect to renal function can be expected.
(8) In the formulation of policy, however, the principle should be applied in a thoroughgoing way and, if it is, it will not have some of the counterintuitive consequences it may have in interpersonal situations.
(9) He has ordered Conservatives to do this during the interim period before the publication of a thoroughgoing review of the expenses system by Sir Christopher Kelly's committee on standards in public life at the end of this year.
(10) He simply says that he has changed with the times and that he is now a thoroughgoing democrat.” But other analysts suggest that Buhari’s heavy-handed past might be exactly what the country needs.
(11) More thoroughgoing restorers might despise the gimcrack painted floorboards in the long gallery (they can still be detected by the attentive eye today), but his creation in the Suffolk countryside was sensational in its day and was a forerunner of many such conversions.
(12) A thoroughgoing bias in Western culture impairs the psychiatric and non-psychiatric medical care of the obese person.
(13) The recommendations reflect a thoroughgoing analysis of the subjects discussed and are a valuable contribution to improvement of the teaching of preventive medicine.
(14) By a thoroughgoing use of odds ratios and higher-order odds ratios, it nevertheless provides a technically accurate account of the key concepts of higher-order interactions among variables, and of models being hierarchical.
(15) At the water treatment works, the temporary flood defences erected last year remain "semi-permanent", with a more thoroughgoing barrier aimed at being completed before 2012.
(16) Moreover, there is no loss of stain since the fugitive surface impregnation, obtained by the Mulligan method, is replaced by a thoroughgoing block-staining procedure with the nonfading copper phathalocyanine dye astra blue.
(17) It promotes a high-wage, high-value economy, powered by an active and thoroughgoing democracy – and aims to provide a counter to some of the "tax-competitive" and mogul-tickling tendencies of the SNP leadership.
(18) What’s happening with Jeremy is that we’re just reclaiming our own policies.” Young April Cummings, who might just become the poster-child for resurgent Scottish Labour as did Mhairi Black for the SNP, introduced Corbyn in Edinburgh as “this wonderful man,” and a Miss Stewart – “Ms, actually” (this was Edinburgh) – who left Labour “decades ago” – had travelled to give her thoroughgoing approval to Mr Corbyn.
(19) Partly, I think, by not being overly concerned with logic and thoroughgoing consistency.
(20) It adds: "The inescapable conclusion from the committee's work is that the UN organisation needs thoroughgoing reform - and needs it urgently."