What's the difference between starkers and undressed?

Starkers


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  • (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.

Undressed


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  • (1) Brief encounters: Undressed at the V&A Read more But photography’s not the only no-no in this lineup of lingerie.
  • (2) He made his way to a spot on the cobblestones not far from the marble mausoleum housing the waxy corpse of Vladimir Lenin , and began to undress.
  • (3) Her appeal awarded her nine points, for standard daily living, including two points for an aid for using the toilet and two for an aid dressing and undressing.
  • (4) Her most memorable film role to date has been dancing with a python in a state of undress in the vampire movie From Dusk Till Dawn.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nauru briefing: the casual brutality of Australia’s offshore detention regime They show children left in states of extreme vulnerability and danger : a father, citing lack of proper medical care and his feeling he is “failing as their father and it’s torturing me”, threatens to kill himself and his children on three separate occasions before there is intervention; a girl becomes the subject of more than 60 incident reports that reveal she has been sexually abused and has self-harmed; another girl, aged under 10, also the victim of sexual abuse, undresses in front of a group of adults and invites them to stick their fingers into her vagina.
  • (6) Wounds must not remain undressed for prolonged periods to avoid drying up and cooling.
  • (7) They continue, and will continue to suffer throughout their lives as a result of your actions.” Wright told them how one victim now undressed only in the dark; how another hated her own body, and that others had eating disorders, depression and were unable to form stable adult relationships.
  • (8) Dispersal of skin micro-organisms into the air during undressing was studied in 72 members of surgical and nursing staff.
  • (9) Miss A told police that she didn't want to go any further "but that it was too late to stop Assange as she had gone along with it so far", and so she allowed him to undress her.
  • (10) The phenomenon of paradoxical undressing due to vital hypothermia is described and the significant influence of alcohol on hypothermia and confusion in connection with hypothermia is pointed out.
  • (11) "They are asking him to leave the flat fully undressed or in his underwear.
  • (12) Many showed detainees in states of undress having their bodies inspected, with rulers and coins held up for comparison and placement of injuries.
  • (13) Five couples from Voina undressed and had vigorous sex in the hall.
  • (14) State of undress The West End, though, does appear to have caught an Olympic cold, with the world's gaze shifted to east London.
  • (15) Pavlensky, who has a long history of self-mutilating protests in Russia , gained international attention in November 2013 when he undressed and nailed his scrotum to the cobblestones of Red Square as “a metaphor for the apathy, political indifference and fatalism of modern Russian society”.
  • (16) I'm not a gay, and I don't know what the ref is into, but I do know I don't like to be mentally undressed every time the whistle is blown.
  • (17) After completing several measures of sexual experience and attitude, subjects received a written description of one of the following conditions and were asked if they wished to volunteer: sexual film, sexual film and subjective rating of arousal, sexual film and assessment through forehead temperature, sexual film and assessment with a device that was placed over the clothes and measured genital heat flow, sexual film and assessment with the heat flow device while partially undressed, or sexual film and assessment with the vaginal photoplethysmograph or penile strain gauge while partially undressed.
  • (18) There were low positive correlations between dressing, undressing, and ambulation scores and ROM scores on admission.
  • (19) You get undressed and notice you are missing some or all of your breasts.
  • (20) They would undress me completely and force me to clean around the toilet with my tongue.

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