The possible conclusions are stark.

The electoral math is stark.

I still get bad dreams and wake up screaming.

But it is the ideological picture that presents the starkest contrasts.

These are challenges that cry out for clarity, not diplomatic fudges.

Its dilemma is stark.

These average rates mask stark differences between countries.

They also often offer examples of sharp contrasts in achievements.

The inconsistencies between climate goals and energy policies are becoming increasingly stark.

There is also increasing evidence in Darfur of gross violations of human rights and humanitarian law.

However, it should be stressed that his regime was responsible for grave violations of human rights, including

It was also glaring testimony to the failure of the first phase of Egypt s revolution.

His rule was associated with grave human rights violations, including assassination, arbitrary arrest and rape

The Ethiopian regime has committed flagrant violations of the Agreement and obstructed the demarcation process for almost two years now.

The compromises necessary for peace are likely to lead to a stark political confrontation in Israel as well.

Nigeria and Angola are other glaring examples of countries that have failed to use their oil wealth for the benefit of their people.

Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.

For unclean spirits came out of many of those who had them. They came out, crying with a loud voice. Many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.

And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.

For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.

Flagrant acts of arbitrariness in the conflict zone take place in the very presence of the peacekeeping forces and in many cases with their latent consent.

Fifth, we call on the Secretary General to give special attention to African conflicts, which cause enormous suffering to civilians.

Indeed, skepticism about global warming has gone up, not down, as the false alarms have become increasingly high pitched.

Both events provide stark lessons about risks, and about how badly markets and societies can manage them.

Although both men have warily embraced the 700 billion bailout of the financial sector, the contrasts between the two men are sharp.

However, although widely supported by the population, the new regime committed many serious human rights violations.

In addition to child soldier recruitment, the action plan specifies five other flagrant violations of children's rights that improved monitoring efforts should focus on.

In recent months, Morocco had blatantly violated human rights by imprisoning and torturing Saharans living in occupied territory.

The cost of maintaining internal order will continue to rise as the system s fundamental defects force the new leader to confront stark new challenges.

Unlike the Shahbag events, the counter demonstration was well planned and organized, and conveyed the stark message that there was an alternative point of view in this overwhelmingly Muslim country.

It refers to the Committee's case law that the existence of a consistent pattern of gross violations of human rights is not sufficient on its own to meet the requirements of article 3.

(g) Refraining from granting amnesties to persons who have systematically committed gross violations of the rights of persons belonging to minorities or actively instigated such violations and bring to justice those responsible for such violations

For Russia, the issue is simple because the crisis which has led to more homeless children than after either the Civil War or World War II is so stark.

Meanwhile, the continuing problems at European banks are a stark reminder that operating highly leveraged, thinly capitalized firms is incredibly risky.

Recalling also its condemnation of the Serbian military offensive against the civilian population of Kosovo, which resulted in war crimes and gross violations of international human rights and international humanitarian law being inflicted upon the Kosovars,

A former Turkish diplomat in Iran described the business climate in stark terms it is as if Iranians prefer a lose lose outcome to a win win one in their dealings with foreign partners.

If the Gaza campaign turns Lebanon like, with a humanitarian catastrophe, ongoing bombardment of Israeli civilians, or both, domestic criticism will echo loud and clear.

Inspired by cell division, Michael Hansmeyer writes algorithms that design outrageously fascinating shapes and forms with millions of facets. No person could draft them by hand, but they're buildable and they could revolutionize the way we think of architectural form.

In the infamous Sledgehammer case, a military coup plot was found to contain glaring anachronisms, including the use of Microsoft Office 2007 in documents supposedly last saved in 2003.

Though the conviction has since been overturned by Guatemala s Constitutional Court, Ríos Montt joins dozens of former heads of state and government leaders who have been prosecuted for gross abuses of human rights since the ICTY was established.

Meanwhile, clear public commitments from the Governments of Rwanda and Uganda on security guarantees and incentives for returnees who have not been responsible for gross human rights violations will be vital in encouraging progress in the disarmament and repatriation process.

These are challenges that cry out for clarity, not diplomatic fudges. But surely two great and ancient civilizations can find their way to the type of cordial, frank, courteous, temperate, deferential relations that would have pleased Confucius.

The Algerian secularists strategy of exclusion, fraud, cheating, and gerrymandering backfired badly Islamists were perceived as victims, while secularists with some exceptions were cast as unprincipled opportunists.

The similarities with the views of the Islamic State are glaring. In a video produced after the battle for the Mosul Dam in August, the group called for the end of Sykes Picot, and proclaimed the need to redraw the Western imposed political map of the Middle East.

LONDON Headlines about migration can seem unbearably stark attacks on foreigners by neo fascists in Greece, dozens of domestic workers on death row in the Gulf, a crass and callous campaign by the British government to drive out migrants.