Sentence examples for stark conditions from inspiring English sources

Tells about stark conditions of urban poverty.

In discouraging those without tickets from going downtown, city officials and ministers described somewhat stark conditions at the official party: no chairs, no alcohol (though hot chocolate is expected), no bags allowed, and uncertain weather given the month and the town.

Stark conditions for refugee children Each year, tens of thousands of Somalis make the treacherous journey across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, escaping the ongoing civil conflict in their home country.

That buoyancy is in stark contrast with bleak conditions in Europe.

One slight drawback about this particular hut was that, owing to the stark geological conditions, it lacked water.

What I love about Obama is that his message of "hope" is not an attempt to obscure the stark material conditions of inequality which structure our present American life, but rather is a message of how we might embrace the future as something that begins now, not later.

Young bohemian types shouted across the hallways to their friends, seemingly oblivious to the stark inequity of conditions in their own building.

After Tiger Woods' declaration that areas of the Lytham & St Annes rough were "unplayable" Darren Clarke, the defending champion, offered a similarly stark assessment of conditions while Ian Poulter claimed he saw the rough being watered during his Monday morning practice round.

The stark difference in conditions was due to the camps being different sizes, he said.

The BBC's Matthew Price demonstrates the stark difference between conditions inside the "protest zone" in Kiev and the rest of the city, where life continues as normal.

VHb was first found to bind oxygen and deliver it to the respiratory apparatus under hypoxic conditions (Stark et al. 2011; Webster 1988).