stark relief
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstarkandrelief
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stark
adjective
uk/stɑːk/us/stɑːrk/
empty, simple, or obvious, especially without decoration or anything that is ...
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relief
noun
uk/rɪˈliːf/us/rɪˈliːf/
a feeling of happiness that something unpleasant has not happened or ...
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(Definition ofstarkandrelieffrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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To put those questions intostarkrelief, let us consider another moral dilemma, again involving an invasion decision.
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Furthermore, as the political order founded on this paradigm unfolds, its intrinsic racial and cultural essentialisms come intostarkrelief.
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That throws intostarkreliefthe issues surrounding maternity services.
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First, it puts intostarkreliefthe ways in which people simultaneously evaluate newly established ideas and institutions in relation to pre-existing ones.
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With this in mind, the problems facing an account of how legal institutions are hypercommittal social practices begin to emerge into something likestarkrelief.
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Moreover, the absence of anything resembling redundant feature values means that these contours stand out instarkreliefin phonological output.
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It is more that such assumptions are thrown intostarkreliefin a culture in which the casual visitor has no stake.
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All that is thrown intostarkreliefby recent examples of magnified greed.
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That throws intostarkreliefthe extent of the commitment we are making.
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If anything, the way in which the amendment is now structured brings that point intostarkrelief.
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These wards represent a small minority of the hospital, but the high standards elsewhere throw them intostarkrelief.
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The case that he mentioned shows up instarkreliefmany of the failures of the current system, which has often let parents down.
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This problem, which has been thrown intostarkreliefby the development, over the last decade, of an affluent society, came to the surface in 1963.
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There are a number of problems of vital concern, not only to the industry but to the nation—problems which the present crisis brings out instarkrelief.
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I do not suggest that the situation in this country is similar, but that system threw intostarkrelief the problems of people suffering from underinvestment in large accommodation blocks.
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Shelter calculated that every house in poor condition costs the health service £300 per year per occupant, putting intostarkreliefthe relationship between poor housing and bad health.
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