Sentences with phrase «facing stark choices»

As part of that reinvention he urges Transition Movements to convey the sense of urgency around climate change and peak oil to their communities — arguing that within a few short years we will begin facing stark choices about «how we live, where we live, and even who lives.»

«Canada faces a stark choice.

We face a stark choice.

When Tea Party Republican Nan Hayworth returns to Washington next week, she will face a stark choice regardless of whether she wins on election day and will serve another term, or if she is serving through the lame duck Congress in November and December.

«Families could face the stark choice of cutting back on essentials or having to move away long distances from their support networks to look for cheaper places to live,» the National Housing Federation's director Ruth Davison warned.

He added: «So voters now face a stark choice: do we stick with a plan which is working, delivering growth and jobs, or do we put all that at risk with Ed Miliband whose policies of more spending, more borrowing and higher taxes will lead to economic chaos.»

Mathematicians are facing a stark choice — embrace monstrous infinite entities or admit the basic rules of arithmetic are broken

Those patients often face the stark choice of either paying out of pocket for an expensive in - person consultation or waiting for months to be seen by the few specialists working at public hospitals, which receive government funding to help pay for patient care, Komarneni says.

Upon completing his postdoctoral work, Nicolelis faced a stark choice: Return to Brazil, where research positions and funding opportunities were nearly nonexistent, or remain in the United States.

Predictably, the Aspenites identify a major crisis: «America today faces a stark choice....

That evidence now shows us that we face a stark choice, between a future with a little more climate change that we will still have to adapt to and cope with, and one with catastrophic climate change that will threaten the future of life as we know it.

We now face a stark choice.

If climate scientists are right, then the world faces a stark choice: either undertake fundamental changes in the way that almost every economy operates, imposing substantial costs on almost every country and society in the world, or roll the dice and see what happens with the Earth's climate.»

Law firms today face a stark choice.

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Also, as some experts in international law have already stated, when faced with a stark choice between pursuing what they perceive to be their vital national interests or abiding by international law, states would most often than not choose the first over the latter.

Thus the choice facing Tory MPs is a stark one.

Commenting on the findings, a Department for Education spokeswoman said: «We welcome this report which shows the stark choice we face in education today - either we prepare today's young people to compete with the best in the world, or we don't.

Barlow said heads were facing «pretty stark choices».

But while many of his books, beginning with Skellig (1999), are netted in magic realism, this coming - of - age story, rooted in reality, makes the stark choices its characters face ones that will be readily recognized by readers.

When we get out into the real world and find out the truth, though, we are faced with a stark choice: buckle down and accept 40 years of punishing, monotonous work, or cut your losses and do something else.

In stark terms, there are only three response choices in the face of global climatic disruption says Dr. John Holdren as often as he can say it: mitigation, adaptation, and suffering.

The organization states on its website that the position is based on detailed research and that «we are faced with a stark choice: either we act to stop ruddy ducks spreading from the UK, or we stand by and watch as the white - headed duck is pushed ever closer to extinction.»

If it doesn't, legal aid practitioners are faced with a stark choice: sign the contract or stop doing legal aid work.

Before SVS SoundPath, audio and home theater fans were faced with a stark choice — either pay outlandishly high prices for far - fetched marketing claims based on «snake oil» science, or, settle for second - rate accessories that keep a system from performing its best.