Sentences with phrase «stark example of»

Representing opposing parties in a dispute provides a particularly stark example of a current client conflict.

This is therefore a stark example of secret justice.

If true, he said, «then we may have a very stark example of what limiting legal aid can mean».

I thought I would draw attention to a stark example of a national newspaper in the UK repeatedly claiming that global warming has stopped, using exactly the flawed reasoning that you have highlighted — a columinist for «The Sunday Telegraph» has made this claim nine times in the last six months — most recently last Sunday (see halfway down: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/06/nbook106.xml).

The results are a stark example of how our beliefs shape the way we experience the world.

Last year, I encountered a stark example of this.

For a stark example of the costs attending business as usual, read the following «Your Dot» contribution from Elizabeth Hadly, a Stanford University biologist who's been doing field work in Nepal's Himalayan highlands focused on the impact of climate change on small mammals.

A stark example of this fact was displayed during the overall market downturn in 2002, when nondividend - paying stocks fell by an average of 30 %, while dividend - paying stocks only declined on average by 10 %.

Throughout, Flanders notes how difficult it can be to research or understand what everyday houses and homes were like over the centuries; the versions of «home» we see depicted in classic works of art, for example, were often idealized, and there has been little impetus, historically, to preserve humble homes for posterity (she offers the particularly stark example of the incredible scarcity of authentic examples of slave quarters in the American South).

The fact that there are no glossaries translated into any African language is a clear violation of students rights and a stark example of institutional racism in the schools.

A recent intrusion into the IRS's FAFSA system that shut down the application during the college admissions filing period served as a stark example of student record vulnerability.

A stark example of this rich - poor homework gap is in Singapore.

The neighboring districts of Detroit Public Schools and Grosse Pointe Public School System in Michigan offer a stark example of this trend.

Baltimore, at least right now, is a story of incomplete reform, a stark example of the limits of a reform strategy that sought dramatic change while leaving many old political and administrative arrangements in place.

The image on the left shows a stark example of this: the woman in the top right ate a primitive, whole - food, high - fat diet while the other women ate more modernized diet that contained grains and agricultural foods.

A stark example of this was seen in the USA in 2012 when aflibercept (Zaltrap ™), a new drug for bowel cancer, entered the market.

The extraordinary lengths the German authorities went to after 9/11 to track down potential terrorists are a stark example of how useless profiling...

A stark example of this is malignant melanoma.

Although no one knew what was to come, the worm's sophistication provided a stark example of how the global malware industry is evolving into a model of corporate efficiency.

However, the bill hides a quite stark example of discrimination — there has been a Minister for Women ever since the Labour Government was elected in 1997, yet no Minister for Men.

The plan proposed by Mr. Christie, the first Republican elected New Jersey governor in 12 years, relies almost exclusively on spending cuts, and stands as a stark example of how a Republican committed to not raising taxes grapples with a state budget in these still - challenging economic times.»

The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 provided a stark example of both the precariousness and effectiveness of deterrence at the time.

While there's no evidence the donations and the capital allocation were connected, it's a stark example of what seems to be a universal truth of politics: many of those who donate to a politician will also seek approvals, money or contracts from those politicians once they're in office.

But still, this is a stark example of how our current system directly sets up public health (of children, which I think is even worse) as an obstacle to financial success.

All anyone has to do is look at what happened in Germany in the first half of the Twentieth Century for a stark example of where it can lead a society.

The October 1998 proposal of a commission of educational experts appointed by Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi (BJP, Cabinet Minister, Human Resources Development Ministry) is a stark example of this objective to hinduize all of India.

Instead I would like to take the simpler but no less stark example of the death of Larry Casuse.6

Consider the case of the defense contractor, perhaps the most stark example of the company captive to the fate of its major customer.

Perhaps the most stark example of the women's involvement in decision - making occurred in the mid -»90s.

Recent stark examples of the absurdity in a «winner - takes - all» system occurred in Florida and New Mexico during the 2000 presidential election when candidate George W. Bush won both states by a fraction of a percentage point, but gained the total number of each state's electoral votes.

This is one of the starkest examples of our crumbling health and care service, which the Care Quality Commission recently warned is «straining at the seams».

There are few starker examples of how man's missteps and policies are contributing to the water shortage currently afflicting the western United States.

This issue of DISCOVER contains some stark examples of the overturning of old ideas.

The speed with which we slid down international league tables under the previous government is one of the starkest examples of their failure.

Today, school reform organization EdBuild released an interactive mapping tool that shows some pretty stark examples of some of the patently crazy ways that school districts across the United States have drawn their borders.

We are seeing stark examples of this with the current environment of negative interest rates in Japan and many parts of Europe.

Possibly the starkest example of how wealthy older millennials and their ordinary peers manage their finances can be seen in the realm of student loan debt.

Off a northern Arizona highway surrounded by pastel - colored desert is one of the starkest examples of drought's grip on the American Southwest: Dozens of dead horses surrounded by cracked earth, swirling dust and a ribbon of water that couldn't quench their thirst.

Perhaps the starkest example of this type of harmful exposure occurred during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City.

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In one stark example, John McAfee, an entrepreneur who founded the antivirus software company that bears his name, is now worth about $ 4 million, from a peak of more than $ 100 million.

The disciples» ascent of the mountain, for example, recalls the difficulty of any personal journey, while the change in the appearance of Jesus is a stark reminder of the physical alterations caused by chemotherapy treatments.

«The Challenge of Peace,» for example, presented a stark condemnation of the savagery and horror of war, especially modern warfare and an envisioned nuclear war.

The stark horror of the Christian encounter with non-Europeans in the «New World» provides perhaps the clearest example.

We are looking at a classic example of the stark stacked - box architecture once described by Henrik Bull, an American designer of ski homes, as Brutalist Bauhaus.

Take last season for example, Birmingham were one of the toughest teams to break down last season and as a result they fended off the threat of relegation with plenty to spare, which was in stark comparison to Burnley who went down with the worst defensive record ever in the Premier League, because they focused all their efforts on the attacking side of things.

«Elizabeth Warren is a pretty stark choice compared to Scott Brown,» Tisei added as an example of the new party dynamics.

The difference between Guam and nearby islands is stark, which makes it an extreme example, but these sorts of changes are likely happening to some degree all over the world.

Just for one stark example, the bumping and fart of livestock (enteric fermentation) and consequential land use changes (deforestation and savannah burning for pasture) in Australia accounts for over half the nations entire Green House Gas emissions.

There are various customisation options, but none of them are particularly interesting, and with only one generic court the overall look feels bland and forgettable, unlike Overwatch for example (as a different competitive game) which has stark and vibrant characters and settings.

Little mention is made of our reality here, however, given the real and deleterious effects we witness, for example, as current teacher educators when we work with potential / future teachers who almost daily express serious concerns about joining a profession now with very little autonomy, not much respect, and a stark increase in draconian accountability measures that will be used to hold them accountable for that which they do, or do not do well.