Sentences with phrase «stark assessment»

The Chancellor's stark assessment of the economic prospects overshadowed Gordon Brown's attempts to start the year on the front foot.

Even if one allows for hyperbole, that is still a stark assessment of wealth's perils.

The stark assessment from Norman Lamb, minister of state at the Department of Health until May's general election, comes as fears mount among senior NHS officials, care providers and local authorities that NHS and care services are approaching breaking point.

Former Scottish Secretary Lord Forsyth of Drumlean has today given a stark assessment of the state of the Scottish Conservative Party in the wake of a general election campaign which saw the party fail to gain any of its targets seats.

The stark assessment comes from David Miliband as the Labour leadership contender tries to get to grips with the public's rejection of New Labour, now consigned to the history books and to be replaced by what some have dubbed, somewhat unimaginatively, Next Labour, which Miliband says can be relaunched from Scotland.

«In a stark assessment, the Commons Public Accounts Committee said the case for the 351 - mile link was fading.

(CNN)- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour offers a stark assessment of President Barack Obama's first term in a new web video produced by the conservative group American Crossroads.

In 1998, Lubchenco's appeal was quickly followed by the release of the Boyer Commission's «Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities» report that delivered a stark assessment of the nation's research institutions and more broadly higher education.

That State Department of Education's own data provides a stark assessment of how Connecticut's charter schools are doctoring their test results by refusing to accept the diversity of students who make up the communities that these schools are supposed to be serving.

Like the devastation in the Gulf, that stark assessment underscores the price that the United States is paying for the debilitating energy stalemate symbolized by this week's Senate showdown2.

That is the stark assessment of NASA scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen, who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth.

I agree with Joe's lucid but stark assessment — without some kind of significant outside action, we are in a very tough spot now due to this set - back by Trump.

That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth.

This winter, America's top climate scientist, Dr. James Hansen, came out with a stark assessment.

The study, published in the journal Nature, is a stark assessment of how resource - rich nations and regions will have to adjust to the reality that the battle against climate change means abandoning huge sources of their wealth.