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This is in
stark
contrast with other aspects of the European Union agenda.
Each positive statistic is balanced by the
stark
reality that there are still around 200 million cases of malaria each year, killing nearly 500,000 people, the vast majority of whom are children under the age of five.
In the summer of 2008, three events placed the new multipolar order in
stark
relief.
In June 2016, a
stark
choice was available to the people of Britain: leave the EU or stay in.
The
stark
truth, however, is that the moral imperatives of each activity are starkly different.
This dilemma is particularly
stark
for the United Kingdom.
Second, Burma’s generals know that they face a
stark
choice: either maintain power or risk imprisonment, exile, and possible death.
The revelations also underscore the
stark
asymmetry between how the US treats drone strikes that kill its own citizens and those that kill others.
Boeke believed in a
stark
separation between the modern, capitalist style of economic organization that prevailed in the West and the pre-capitalist, traditional mode that predominated in what were then called “underdeveloped areas.”
At the same time, the Europeans, having convinced Russia and China to back their strategy, approached the US with another
stark
choice: either join an international coalition to apply diplomatic pressure on Iran, or pursue dubiously effective military measures on your own.
Yet defeat after painful defeat has driven center-left parties to a
stark
realization: voters who are concerned primarily with immigration are not going to be won over with calls – however justified – for equality.
These startling statistics all add up to one
stark
conclusion: business as usual is nowhere near good enough.
The
stark
truth is that India has no choice in the matter.
Now, with the US military at its limit in Iraq and Afghanistan and the US fiscal position weakening, America is confronted with
stark
choices.
One problem with this view is that it cannot account for the
stark
differences between the US and Japan, Germany, and South Korea.
In fact, though Trump attempted to portray his strategy as a
stark
break from those of his immediate predecessors, many of the steps he announced have been tried already.
And yet the strong response to Khashoggi’s brutal murder stands in
stark
contrast to the relative indifference the West has shown to the vastly larger number of victims of the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen.
It reduces a complex policy to a
stark
set of figures: if we invest one extra dollar (or euro, taka, gourde, or peso), we will get a return that is x times higher.
Whatever one might say about Greece’s past economic policies, its uncompetitive economy, its decision to join the eurozone, or the errors that European banks made when they provided its government with excessive credit, the country’s economic plight is
stark.
In the developed world, 2017 will likely be recalled as a period of
stark
contrast, with many economies experiencing growth acceleration, alongside political fragmentation, polarization, and tension, both domestically and internationally.
These developments stood in
stark
contrast to what was happening in the West.
Their report highlights one
stark
fact from the start: The gender gap is real, and in some cases it is extreme.
But efforts to re-start the peace process now confront a
stark
new reality: two mutually hostile Palestinian entities in Hamas-ruled Gaza and the Fatah-led West Bank must now be factored into the process.
This can only be explained as the result of a Manichean ideology that insists on a
stark
choice between macroeconomic stability and chaos.
But a populist has now assumed the United States presidency by campaigning on a platform of
stark
economic nationalism and protectionism.
This Israeli conviction on what it considers an existential issue stands in
stark
contrast with the fatalism that otherwise dominates Israelis’ thinking about themselves and their relations with the Palestinians.
These average rates mask
stark
differences between countries.
The
stark
inability of Africa's leaders to constructively criticize their peers contributes mightily to this.
Despite their commonality, there has been a
stark
contrast in approaches to resolving these two crises.
The dismantling of the Berlin Wall – that stark, concrete symbol of a world divided into hostile camps – is such a defining moment.
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