Sentences with phrase «stark reality for»

Ensconced among his aides, flatterers and influence seekers, Buhari may view the landscape with rose - tinted glasses; the stark reality for most Nigerians, however, is grim.

Today is the day that an abstract debate about spreadsheets and numbers turns into stark reality for people's jobs and services.

A stark reality for many liberal, mainline churches is that there is no way to form people into a body if it has no boundaries, no integrity of its own.

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These anomalies point to a stark new reality: the environment for new housing is going through a paradigm shift that is turning the country into a nation of renters, which could weigh down future economic growth and the value of the dollar.

Tracing the historical story of underground Christians in Japan in the mid-17th century, Endo offers a stark look at the realities of following Christ under persecution, and the intense psychological struggle of a particular priest to know whether it would be better for him to be martyred for his faith or to recant.

They forsake the safe harbor of stale political pieties, entering instead those open, uncertain seas where, as Stanley Hoffman proposes, we acknowledge the stark realities of the struggle for power, while working nonetheless toward a more cooperative world order.

The stark reality is that most white Christians, including more than 80 percent of white evangelical Christians, supported Donald Trump for president, despite his evident immorality, bigotry, and disregard for the dignity of women, (not to mention complete lack of qualification or competency).

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Soylent, the pale, smoothie - like beverage, whose creators state that it meets all nutritional requirements of a balanced diet for the average adult, shows the stark reality of this reconstituted approach.

let us face the stark reality the present squad is not good enough as proved for the past six seasons.

In this role, she is responsible for leading the efforts to improve public policies to end hunger, reduce poverty, promote nutrition and increase the availability of healthy affordable food in low - income areas; maximize participation in all federal nutrition programs (SNAP, school meals, early childhood nutrition, WIC, and summer meals); and educate the public about both the stark reality of hunger's existence in the nation's capital and the real opportunities for effective solutions.

As they each made a steak and ale pie for the scrum of TV and press cameras, the Prime Minister confronted the stark reality that his other half is the one with the creative flair.

«The stark reality highlighted by our research and casework evidence is that all too often when a woman teacher asks for flexible working she is told she has no right and when she is pregnant she is shown the door.

Plaid Cymru's current opposition to the «black route» is in stark contrast to the actions of their former leader, who behind the scenes seemingly helped pave the way for it to become a reality.

Unfortunately, the stark reality is the majority of dating sites for gay men tend to be hookup sites in disguise, so you'll want to be very clear in your profile about what you're looking for to weed out those men who have different intentions as best you can.

Hopefully the Legendary Anniversary Loot Boxes won't highlight the stark reality of how low the odds are for you to get what you want from them, because that kind of money - sucking frustration would be a shame amidst what ought to be a merry celebration.

«The stark reality of that was disheartening,» Eshaan admits, but the roadblock has given rise to his next big idea: engineering a power source for Shubham's neighborhood that could be fueled by burning trash.

One way to appreciate this reality in stark relief is to just remember that, as Barkan shows, for all the claims that the traditional public school system is flawed, America's wealthiest traditional public schools happen to be among the world's highest - achieving schools.

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.

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The stark reality is that the political campaign process creates the necessity for financial support to ensure any candidate's election.

These tales of soldiers whose dreams were crushed by the stark realities of war, only for them to stand back up and face that reality head - on, affected our team on a deeply emotional level.

Parks was an activist, a humanitarian and a core figure in America's civil rights movement; he routinely shattering glass ceilings for black artists, while using his platform to expose the stark realities of day - to - day inequality on the most momentous of scales.

We wonder how the artist constructed these pieces, feel for the creatures in distress, and are made uncomfortable by the stark reality of snails or decomposing flesh.

For those who doubted that climate change was indeed upon us, the reality now couldn't be starker.

«The stark reality out there is that unless we see an advance on the key political issues, it is very difficult for negotiators in this process to continue their work in good faith,» de Boer said.

«The platform makes for the starkest possible contrast with a party that just nominated Donald Trump — a man who has called climate change a hoax invented by and for the Chinese, who has denied basic reality such as the drought in California, and who has vowed to (try to) scuttle the unanimous agreement by the world's nations in Paris to take whatever measures are necessary to avert catastrophic warming and keep total warming «well below 2 °C.»

The report points to stark, problematic realities for people of Africa, markets and ecosystems from continuing deforestation and forest degradation.

... the time has come to recognize the stark reality that our court, for whatever reason, lags unacceptably behind in the use of electronic communications with our court users.

Indeed, Straw's main complaint seemed to be not the substantive law of crime prevention, but rather the stark reality that the «have - a-go hero» might himself be arrested for injuring the villain.

In dipping into this legalese, I do not for a moment seek to minimise or cloak the stark reality that confronting a burglar in your home is one of the most terrifying experiences imaginable.

The stark reality is that an insurance company has one goal and that is to make money for its stockholders.

And given the stark realities of bankruptcy, debt and the compounded emotional grief that can haunt the family and loved ones of people who don't prepare for the expenses of death, there is no excuse not to apply for such coverage.

Not surprisingly, it is often the education professionals who bemoan the system in which they find themselves; the daily tension between their professional knowledge and commitment to children, in stark contrast to standards - driven educational expectations, is a troubling reality for them.

The stark reality is that the credit crunch is no longer the only culprit for depressed sales volumes.

«This ruling recognizes the stark reality that housing discrimination, regardless of intent, persists for many Americans,» Dennis Parker, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Racial Justice Program, said in a statement reacting to the decision, «This decision retains the essential protections of the Fair Housing Act, meaning the law will continue to serve as an important tool in rooting out pernicious forms of racial segregation and discrimination.»