Sentence examples for stark scenario from inspiring English sources

Although the stark scenario I depict is the reality of life for many, I am pleased to say that a glimmer of hope has been ignited for them.

Frustratingly, however, the book's lucid prose and stark scenario (man digs grave in snow while another man supervises, in an unspecified war zone) slowly degenerated into a messy regurgitation of historical factoids, fairytales, half-baked screenplays and fake voices.

Too often, attempts to dramatise our environmental situation leap from out of our current muddle and into stark scenarios of catastrophe.

That's the stark choice of scenarios laid out by the science minister David Willetts in an examination of the potential and pitfalls of British research in the years ahead.

Nowhere is this scenario more stark than in the office supplies market.

"In stark contrast to the scenarios contemplated for oil spills and hurricanes, there is no specificity for emergency coordination and command in place for a response to a nuclear disaster," Mr. Markey said in a statement.

A review of all of the Trustees' reports issued since 1983 shows that reality has arrived somewhere in between most of the trustees' intermediate and their high-cost (worst-case) scenarios, in stark contrast with the urban myth that the trustees are too conservative.

This is in stark contrast to the institutional scenario where there are two or three shifts of professionals who provide around-the-clock care.

12. (C) Comment (continued): Persistent rumors about Muammar al-Qadhafi's declining health have lent particular urgency to questions about succession scenarios, throwing into stark relief the fact that, absent a constitution, there is no legal mechanism by which to orchestrate such an endeavor and seemingly increasing the stakes for the sibling rivalry.

The difference between these two scenarios is quite stark, amounting to nearly three percent of global output by 2017.

In stark contrast, the White paper High scenario results show that demand for rail freight services almost doubles compared to the Reference values.