Sentences with phrase «stark relief»

They have shown up that problem in stark relief.

This sobering statistic stands in stark relief when compared with bamboo.

To make matters worse, the couple's overly long engagement is thrown into even starker relief when Tom's dopey friend Alex (Chris Pratt, doing Chris Pratt) and Violet's sister Suzie (Alison Brie, doing a shaky British accent), who hooked up at Tom and Violet's engagement party, get pregnant and married in a mere matter of months.

It's harder to kid yourself when you see the number in stark relief on the scale.

Omar is a thriller and a romance, with unabashedly melodramatic elements (there's even a love triangle), all of which are brought into stark relief by the Israeli - Palestinian conflict.

It throws the devastating impact of abortion restrictions in stark relief against anti-abortion politicians» claims of boosting «women's health.»

The 7 - extension opening comes just a couple of days after a G - train derailment, which brough the system's need for repair into stark relief yet again.

The Democrats» dilemma was put into stark relief early Tuesday when one of their more unpredictable members, Pedro Espada Jr. of the Bronx, announced he would stay away unless the conference took up two of his measures: a farmworkers bill of rights and legislation relating to New York City rent control.

One issue that progressive activists are upset with the incumbent governor about — and that came into stark relief around the time of the 2016 Clinton - Sanders primary — is the state's antiquated election laws, including lack of early voting and same - day registration, and party - change deadlines extremely far in advance of the applicable vote.

The need for new approaches comes into stark relief as the Alzheimer's Association begins its annual conference this week in Toronto.

Highlighting the cost of the F - 35 Joint Strike Fighter program, the most expensive in the Pentagon's history, brings into stark relief how skewed our national priorities are.

The context is extremely violent, which makes the intimate moments — between Reynolds and the girl and Reynolds and his buddies — stand out in agonizingly stark relief.

The second (and sadly final) season of Starz's Party Down fit that description even more fully than its first, throwing the failed Hollywood dreams of the waiters and bartenders at the Party Down Catering Company into even starker relief via a blend of pathos and cringe - inducing comedy.

The same pale hide covers the lower part of the facia, while stark relief is provided in black: predominantly the leather that covers the upper part of the facia, the seat piping and the piano lacquer wood trim.

But Arena makes them feel fresh by bringing them into stark relief for the first time.

The administration's policies stand in stark relief next to Exxon Mobil's recently announced discovery of an estimated 700 million barrels of oil in the Gulf's Keathley Canyon - hinting at reserves likely to be found elsewhere if government will simply let America's energy companies go and find it.

SAN FRANCISCO / FRANKFURT (Reuters)-- Facebook faces substantial business risks from new European Union privacy rules set to take effect in May, a looming reality that came into stark relief over the...

Heaven and Hell stand in more stark relief.

Will Self's lament for the death of the novel earlier this summer has been cast into stark relief by «shocking» new statistics which show that the number of authors able to make a living from their writing has plummeted dramatically over the last eight years, and that the average professional author is now making well below the salary required to achieve the minimum acceptable living standard in the UK.

Compared with previous Kindles, text on the Kindle Voyage appears both sharper and in starker relief against the background.

These challenges were thrown into stark relief when Geron halted its stem - cell trial in November, having decided that the hurdles to commercializing the therapy were too great.

To put that in even starker relief, each dollar invested in the index 20 years ago would now be worth $ 4.95; in the average equity fund, it would be worth $ 4.06; and the average equity fund investor's dollar would be worth $ 1.45, representing just 11 percent of the growth provided by the market index.

The achievement gap between middle - school students and K — 8 students is put in stark relief in Figure 1, which displays our estimates of the impact of attending a middle school on student achievement as measured by standardized tests in math and English Language Arts.

There are the standard office friendships, tensions and romances, which are all thrown into stark relief when impenetrable metal shutters come down and an ominous voice comes over a loudspeaker, instructing the group to kill each other or be killed themselves.

The film paints very clearly the life of the priest in stark relief to the world's perception of what a priest is, all while allowing Fr.

Searching for a new home has put the tension between the priorities of the housing market and the needs of a large family into stark relief.

Against Christian happy - talk, the Cross stands in stark relief.

- Focus Research this week has brought into stark relief the potential threat that plain packaging laws could have on the global drinks industry

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With the global population expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, it casts into stark relief the assessments made by some in the livestock and agricultural industries that the only way to feed the world is to increase production or use more efficient technology.

The outsize influence of agents is nothing new, but Sanches puts it in stark relief.

The images of the burnt out building has brought into stark relief the terrible human cost of failing housing policy.

What's fascinating about this proposal is that it throws into stark relief one of the core choices Britain has to make when it comes to Brexit.

The size of the challenge facing Ed Miliband was thrown into stark relief this morning, after a prominent union leader warned just ten per cent of his members would be likely to join Labour.

But judgements reflect values, and the decisions made by this government about Treasury policy throw its small - state, centre - right ideology into stark relief.

The effect, whatever the intention, was to set in stark the relief the contrast between a seasoned politician of high calibre and his well - meaning, but less impressive, boss.

The absurd prospect of taxpayers paying a nine - figure sum to compensate criminals for the consequences of their own criminal behaviour has served one useful purpose - it has thrown into stark relief the illegitimate power of the ECHR over our own institutions.

Instead, the downturn is throwing them into starker relief,» said Patricia Hewitt MP, speaking at the Fabian Society's conference on feminism.

In 2011, climate change skeptic Anthony Watts published a study that threw this problem into stark relief.

The recent drought that has gripped much of the Southwest for almost three years has thrown the issue into stark relief.

The meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant last spring cast the issue of nuclear safety in stark relief.

A new analysis from the National Institutes of Health puts in stark relief the widening imbalance between men and women researchers as their careers progress.

Matthews opened his canteen and poured some water over the rock, so the trails would stand out in starker relief.

In the address that opened the meeting, AAAS President Nina V. Fedoroff described one of these problems in stark relief: Scientists must find ways to double the world's food supply by 2050, the influential plant biologist warned, but major crop yields have declined by roughly 10 % for each degree of global climate warming.

As has been seen year after year, the warming of the Earth is causing major changes in many aspects of the planet's climate, and 2014 was yet another year that showed this trend in stark relief, a report released Thursday says.