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Both his eyes and hair were jet black, a stark contrast to his uniform.

am i to go back, in a blink, in the same stark nakedness? it is not fair though: why should i have made such a trip for nothing!

Once free and back in Malibu, Stark secretly refines his design, turning himself into a more peace-minded crusader.

He was not a religious man, but he maintained a stark sense of good and evil, castigating others, as well as himself, for transgressions.

This was a shock to Jung, but it revealed the stark truth that she had to shape up.

Stark's mistake was to call a red card when it should have been yellow, but his greatest sin was to deprive us of football.

As he's flying around the stratosphere letting off steam, he spots Wonder Woman lying on her back stark naked sunbathing on the beach.

In China today, the search for a partner is often not inspired by love - but driven by a stark financial calculus.

It came to her suddenly that she had stood in this very spot before, on the day Lord Eddard Stark had lost his head.

Using the Internet lets his patients proceed as if he were in the office full-time, however, Stark said.

The brokerage's sudden fall was a stark reminder of the fragility and ferocity of a financial system built to a remarkable degree on trust.

Jim Mintz, founder and president of Mintz Group, said the goal was to create a 'stark way of showing the risks of bribery. '

Such a stark contrast between the dark desolate lifeless desert of northern Africa and the Nile River teeming with life along its shores.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Stark stood for a "culture of stability" in the euro zone to which her government strongly adhered.

In short, it's a bit of a hodgepodge, full of stark contrasts.

He came to the door stark naked. It was his night off and there was a cunt in the bed as usual.

He saw her tear-wet eyes looking at him in stark fear and he remembered that no one had seen him leave his room.

Her mother marched about the flat in her underwear sometimes braless and sometimes on summer days stark naked.

The wide marble plaza below was as crowded as it had been on the day that Stark had died. Everywhere she looked the queen saw eyes.

It would be a stark contrast with his days at MSF when he was always open to ideas, suggestions and advice.

She saw Ned Stark, and beside him little Sansa with her auburn hair and a shaggy grey dog that might have been her wolf.

This initiative served him well during the Stark Hyperspace Wars, when he took up the Republic banner after a great Jedi Master was killed.

"Shortly government will have to take stark measure to put an end to this type of activities and acts of terrors, " he said.

She was passionately in love with her husband, Philip the Handsome and upon his death is said to have gone stark raving mad.

At home, he walks around stark naked ('Put some clothes on, ' his mother tells him in one scene).

Fairtrade campaigners said the predictions of sharply rising prices provided a "stark warning" to international policymakers.

C is for my cat, she is as cuddly as can be, but she mean out so lovely that she gets stark out been a tree.

Instead, Pepper kisses the "lips" of Stark' s helmet and throws it out of the plane.

And there was a stark message about Natalia Kimiko Casas Sanchez: "someone has received information that this person is dead. "

Howard Stark: The Rio Grande. Billy the Kid's resting place. Los Almos. This and that, you know.

Across the city in just a few streets from where the Twin Towers were, a stark reminder that thousands of people have little to celebrate.

Stark arrived and made a mess of things by booking Pepe with a red card when it should have been yellow at worst.

Janos Slynt had lifted Ned Stark's head by the hair as his life's blood flowed down the steps, and after that there was no turning back.

The influence of a uniform electric field on the motion and energy of the electrons in atoms is known as the Stark effect.

The dark stones stand out in stark contrast to the white snow and ice.

It also foists a stark choice on the Kremlin: to stifle dissent, or to placate protesters to provide some kind of pressure outlet.

My face was out of its pleasingly ambiguous state but stepped straight into a world of stark prejudice.

Zhao says the peaceful nature of Zheng He's voyages show that, in stark contrast to the West's rise, China is not an expansionist culture.

Studio execs, however, thought no one wanted to see a stark, honest vision of race and fear and lives in collision in modern America.

In the first "Iron Man, " weapons manufacturer Tony Stark has an epiphany when he winds up on the wrong end of some of his deadly products.

With such a stark contrast between reality and political expediency, there is bound to be bad legislation as a result.

After consulting with one of his assistants, German referee Wolfgang Stark shows Pepe the red card one minute after the play took place.

"We went out for dinner in the middle of all this, " Mr Stark says, "and he had only a single ice cream. "

He consented, and I immediately stripped myself stark naked, and went down softly into the stream.

In this case, once he has committed to the relationship he may find himself stuck with you even if he later learns the stark truth.

Tony Stark has revealed his identity as Iron Man and is resisting calls by the United States government to hand over his Iron Man suit.

It was clear that Lehman had three stark choices: find a partner with which to merge, hope for a bailout, or collapse into bankruptcy.

His stark conclusion was that full employment had rarely been achieved in peacetime except in rare periods of exuberance.

The old building made a really stark contrast to the morden girls of today, which let the photos be like a science fiction freeze frame.

The line they have been insisting on so far is untenable, unsustainable in the face of the stark realities of the world security situation.

As he and Veronica maneuver over the document, events and epiphanies throw the unreliability of Tony's storytelling into stark relief.

All that remains of the church in Peralillo, a nearby village, are two stark white columns.

Folks who have given up trying to get ahead, and given in to the stark reality of just trying to get by.

His statement was in stark contrast to statements from Tripoli that Gadhafi has no intention of giving up power.

Eddard Stark has been considered, but he was 18 at Harrenhal and seems to have been of average height, which rules him out.

He expressed a stark sense of self-awareness, and I wondered where it would lead him.

This stark fact goes so far beyond all previous human experience that no social machinery exists to cope with it.

In a speech to members of the American Medical Association at their annual meeting in Chicago, the president spoke in stark terms.

But in stark contrast to the Japanese experience, there was no German bubble.

There was something heroic about it and he could have driven us stark mad, Ravel, if he had wanted to. But that's not Ravel.

Ihave come to this world , stark naked ; am I to go back , in a blink , in the same nakedness ?

Leia was raised in a life of privilege, a stark contrast to her twin brother who grew up on the harsh desert world of Tatooine.

A patient sat in front of it in the dark, facing north, stark naked-staring at the light, which was covered by colored filters.

His critics would not disagree with this stark diagnosis, even if he offered few answers.

This season has again given us some stark reminders that the threat of an influenza pandemic has by no means diminished.

Stark: Sometimes he has somebody else do it. Sends over a fat man in a striped suit with a big car to do his will.

The contrast between the handling of the East Asia crisis and the American crisis is stark and has not gone unnoticed.

They were a spot of brightness in the stark blackness of the sky.

The Irishman , for such I understood him to be, was stark mad at this bait, in short, he courted me, made me presents .

In a stark reversal since the 1970s, men are now more likely than women to hold only a high-school diploma.

The differences in bacterial cell fate were stark and hinged upon whether or not one or two viruses were inside a given cell.

A stark example is the Bengal famine of 1943, during the last days of the British rule in India.

Tony Stark: Yes. Yes it's very cool. I don't wanna see this on your myspace page. Please, no gang signs. No, throw it up. I'm kidding.

Only the other day I heard one of the leading contenders issue this stark warning to America's great new economic rival.

This one was dead of fear. You could see it in his eyes, Stark.

Reparations have been paid out slowly, in stark contrast to the money and manpower lavished on Mr Taylor's trial.

Tony Stark has a particle accelerator in his home, but just how plausible is such a build?

It's got a stark beauty to it: the yellow brick of the walls, the green of the prison yard, the blue sky overhead.

Now in the age of information explosion, people prefer to accept news, not the stark advertising.

Thus, the terrorists began to both soft and hard, Tony Stark requires them greater power to create weapons.

In a lesser actor's hands Stark could come off as just a villain.

His situation is in stark contrast to Zambrotta's at Barcelona, where the fullback has settled quickly at the defending European champs.

Kitty was a girl of loose morality. One day, she went to a costume ball stark naked and was refused entry by the doorman.

Fairly disoriented, I jumped down out of our little loft-BED, and standing stark naked, faced the windshield.

The wealth headlines of the past few days tell a stark tale: The U. S. has slow growth and higher taxes.

For we shall find that these stark facts of cosmic life are essential if the Universe is to harbour life at all.

These are just a few of the stark warnings that must be heeded.

These are just a few of the stark warning that must be heeded.

When the eunuch Varys told us that you were with child, Robert wanted you killed, but Lord Stark spoke against it.

All of these facts stand in stark contrast to what is known about its contemporaries, Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt.

Man is certainly stark mad . He cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozen .

"You have to come in one time a year for an annual exam, " Stark said.

New census data paint a stark portrait of the nation's haves and have-nots at a time when unemployment remains persistently high.

Haiti would not like to be described as its poor neighbour, but the contrast is stark.

Experts say the case offers a particularly stark, compelling example of one of the most difficult ethical dilemmas to confront a lawyer.

It was a stark warning from the Federal Reserve Board Chairman: Congress must act now to head off a looming crisis in social security.

He came out of the bathroom stark naked.

This is in stark contrast to the higher risk of breast cancer shown in the estrogen-progestin part of the trial.

In an interview on Britain's Sky News Saturday, British Chancellor George Osborne offered a stark assessment of the challenge.

The Shetland Islands, the most northern of the British Isles, are as stark and rugged as they are beautiful.

Stark: I don't count on him scaring easy. You think it's beneath my dignity?

The contrast between what Confucius read of the records of the ancients and his own age was stark.

Standing in stark contrast to the surrounding desert, vegetation lines the fertile Nile River valley as it runs northward through Egypt.

Howard Stark: I' d love to stay and talk, but I have to be in New Mexico by morning.

The stringent requirements of these examples stand in stark contrast to the instigation offence.

Workers are quickly recognizing the stark contrast between the computing that occurs in their personal lives and the business status quo.

The report made for stark reading for the bank's clientele.

They were stark naked, men, women, and children, round a fire, as I could discover by the smoke.

The stark earthen line separating Hamburg from the dark-colored flood water is probably a levee.

Facing the stout mountain climbing, helpless and mother's relaxed in stark contrast to the great mother explained beyond all imagination.

But in doodling, at least in my sample, the difference is stark and almost without exception.

Her reward, in stark contrast to his, was an overall majority of 44.

no blood trickled from the broken skin, and when I put my fingers to it, I could doubt no more: he was dead and stark!

Federal regulators uncovered stark evidence that some Toyota cars accelerated unexpectedly more than two years ago.

The expected round of cuts is a stark reminder of a basic truth on Wall Street: in good times, you get rich; in bad times, you get fired.

Nowhere is Iraq's water shortage more stark than in what used to be the marshlands.

"I don't think from a policy perspective that would be a reasonable, " Stark said.

Either way, China's actions to rein in inflation stand in stark contrast to the Federal Reserve's stance on inflation in the United States.

All complex things taken together form an unbroken continuum between the extremes of stark clockwork gears and ornate natural wilderness.

It was the most pure and stark of several films about characters who drifted in existential limbo.

The Transfiguration is a stark reminder that in the midst of glory there is still much pain to be borne.

HIGH VISIBILITY: Echo industrial uniforms with a stark palette of vivid yellow against concrete greys and black.

Ministers will warn today of a "stark gulf" between the ability of 15-year-olds here and those from other leading countries.

Today, the graves act as a stark reminder of the past and a useful warning to future generations.

This image is stark in its brutality but was the reality of the time.

The state of the world is a stark testimony to this fact, as is the condition of the lives of most human beings.

The stark disillusion of such a sharp contrast was too much for Benerice to comprehend .

Friday's unemployment data served as a "stark reminder" of the need to move quickly on the massive economic package, Obama said on Friday.

And here she stood on the steps of the Great Sept again, only this time it was her the mob was staring at, not Eddard Stark.

Grandmother went on talking in her polite Virginia way, not admitting their stark need or her own remissness.

The method is so primitive that it can only writes on scattered files with stark communication between mailboxes.

We passed many such destroyed buildings, acting as a stark reminder of what happened there as recently as sixteen years ago.

The contrast between Afghan government hopelessness and insurgent craftiness could hardly have been more stark.

Designer Charlie Le Mindu broke the last taboo in the fashion world yesterday by sending models down the catwalk stark naked.

The Old Summer Palace is still a stark reminder about the arrogance of the colonial impulse.

To many Iraqis, Blackwater's continued presence was a stark symbol of the country's lack of sovereignty.

A missionary couple brought him to Warburton, where he was struck by the stark desert landscape.

A stroll through a Kaminoan city reveals a stark minimalism of seemingly colorless walls and structures.

One passage in The World Is Flat points this out to me in very stark terms.

Instead, price maximums provide stark psychological reminders of how attentive Chinese authorities are to inflated property markets.

The researchers tracked stark new consumer, dietary, grooming and work habits among dalits in two districts.

Heroes do not eat immediate loss, the wise Stark will not sit still.

Despite rising prices, Noyer and fellow ECB policymaker Juergen Stark shot down market expectations for a series of ECB interest rate rises.

The two big scene produced in stark contrast to movie screen style and lively, the scene with rich content and full, full of fairy tale.

Among his exploits was serving as a fleet battle strategist during the bloody Stark Hyperspace Wars.

If Stark wants to contact them, they get an e-mail merely directing them to pick up a message at the password-protected site.

The opening daywas one of stark contrasts and featured a classic sartorial duel: wearable clothes versus theatrical tactics.

Campaigning in New Jersey, Senator McCain said voters in this election face a stop stark choice on the war in Iraq.

The contrast between the peace of these temples and the bustle of Macau city could hardly be more stark.

The stark contrast between the Q2 2011 Nokia and Apple quarterly results is excellent example of the power of application platforms.

Just before the final press conference, Tony Stark is reading the newspaper with a grainy, amateur photograph of Ironman on the cover.

The hectic pace of infrastructure projects I saw in central China last week stands in stark contrast to the belt-tightening in Britain.

South Georgia rises sheer and stark from the sea, a hundred-mile arc of dark Antarctic peaks, ice fields, and hanging glaciers.

He gave a stark denial to the rumour.

But, as in many countries, the gulf between attitudes in large cities and small villages can be stark.

But they were startled one day with a feeling of stark dissatisfaction.

Such growth is in stark contrast to the doldrums of several years ago when economic recession held back sales growth to little or nothing.

This is not a plus at a time of stark and rising inequality.

The contrast between how the two independents presented themselves was stark.

Campaigning in New Jersey, Senator McCain said voters in this election face a stark choice on the war in Iraq.

Tony Stark: No one's allowed to talk, is that it? You're not allowed to talk?

But this time the differences are stark, says Washington-based analyst Stuart Rothenberg.

In many respects it is a stark and difficult an existence as that of the people in that Latin American slum across the ocean.

The slowdown following the recent global recession gave Chinese leaders a stark reminder of the perils of relying too heavily on trade.

Tony Stark: No ones allowed to talk, is that it? Youre not allowed to talk? Hey, Forrest!

Tony Stark drives an Audi R8 in the film, as part of a promotion deal Marvel Studios made with the Audi Automobile Company.

This type of process is in stark contrast to the streamlined, short-duration provisioning done in clouds.

I have come to this world, stark nakedness; am I to go hack, in a blink, in the same stark nakedness?

This was made the more stark by the annual general meeting of global leadership in a storm-tossed Cannes.

In Casino Royale , the stark difference between Bond's tuxedo jacket and white shirt was like night and day.

Sari Stark of the Finnish Forest Research Institute proves Wells' contention, right down to the soil level.

When it comes to responding to climate change, the contrast between China and the United States is stark.

I locked myself out of my house, stark naked, and got caught by Mike.

All of this stands in stark contrast to the state of affairs when Mr. Jackson died.

As the robot slowly pushed the man's bedroom door open, the man came out, stark naked, and tried to damage the robot with his hands.

German chemicals makers yesterday provided stark examples of the risks of high oil prices for themselves and consumers.

The Treasury Department said on Wednesday the Fitch warning was "another stark reminder" of the need for Congress to act quickly.

Take the war zone on Pakistan's north-western frontier, where radio's sinister side has been on stark display.

A windmill stands in stark contrast against the snowy landscape of the Dutch village of Oosthuizenthe in North Holland, the Netherlands.

So, why this stark differentiation between the stock markets of the world's two largest emerging countries?

"Our reliance on cyberspace stands in stark contrast to the inadequacy of our cyber security, " it said.

Because shock waves represent a stark and sudden change in refractive index, they show up clearly in schlieren photographs.

Graceful architecture and natural beauty sit alongside stark reminders of mankind's brutality, creating striking vistas.

The countryside around is of lush green, in stark contrast to the sandstone from which they were hewn .

Such openness is in stark contrast to the almost obsessive secretiveness that Beijing has displayed in the past when dealing with crises.

The film vividly shows the stark realities of life for the poor and hungry.

The European sky used to offer a stark choice between full-service and budget airlines.

The insides were stark: a trapdoor, a Buddha statue and a ring for the noose.

I suddenly felt my eyes brim with tears, realizing the stark contrast of death and life was the untold beauty I perceived at that moment.

Detractors of the international style claim that its stark, uncompromisingly rectangular geometry is dehumanising.

Living in isolation and loneliness is a stark reality for thousands of older people today.

But some observers and participants stressed that stark divisions remained among different participants and lobbies in the talks.

These remedies should apply the world over, including in the US, where health and wealth inequalities can be especially stark.

indeed, the historical record is now so stark that diehard Republicans are probably starting to wonder if there is a curse.

It also covers the religious history of the United States, based on the pro-liberty book by Stark and Finke, The Churching of America.

Drake's exceptional guitar-playing talents were still intact, but the stark songs they decorated were bleak, unsettling.

In songs, the hero always saved the maiden from the monster's castle, but life was not a song, no more than Jeyne was Arya Stark.

This standing in stark contrast to for instance the EU where public procurement rules prohibit giving preference to domestic producers.

But the resolve and the resilience of the Indian people during those attacks stood in stark contrast to the savagery of the terrorists.

Its neighbour, Japan, offers a stark cautionary tale in the dangers of relying only on exports as the catalyst for growth.

His work can seem similarly stark, resting on the bleak vision of his best-known play "Waiting for Godot" .

It is a stark thing to say, but it is the truth.

Stark offered to pay Joplin a percentage of each sale of "Maple Leaf Rag" sheet music.

Stark's eldest son would have followed him as Lord of Winterfell, but Sansa would have stayed at court, a hostage.

The day Lord Stark lost his head, I was there, watching.

In German media Mr Stark was described as the ECB's "chief economist" , although formally no such position exists.

In Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr. 's character, Tony Stark, builds an iron suit that allows him to fly at supersonic speed. It is very cool.

It is a stark example of the pricing crisis now facing cancer medicines across the globe.

A grim spectre has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy may easily become a stark reality we all shall know.

A stark white lobe of a glacier advances across Antarctica's dry valleys region, so called because of its scarcity of snow.

Their stories serve as a stark reminder of the misery that enforced jollity can bring.

The Libyan authorities have issued a stark warning to anti-government protesters, saying they'll meet a violent and thunderous response.

The popular symbol of the Atom is stark: a black dot encircled by the hairline orbits of several other dots.

This image of warped lung cancer cells is in stark contrast to the healthy lung in the previous picture.

In a post-Collapse Stark, alternative methods of transportation soon appeared.

Scientists described the results as a stark warning to people considering smoking.

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This statue sits on the outside of the Petit Palais. During the day it is stark white and looks and feels triumphal.

Her powerful, stark images have been copied by two generations of black-and-white photographers.

The Stark Industries weapons the terrorists are carrying are actual weapons, but mostly made by German arms firm Heckler & Koch.

Instead of the stark white finish, Fett would appear as weathered as possible, with mismatched gauntlets to suggest a storied background.

The contrasts between India and China are stark. China's economic boom is led by state-owned enterprises; India's by private entrepreneurs.

In stark contrast to this, the executives of the magazine are cynical and experienced.

And those stark facts undermine many districts' efforts to foster racially integrated schools and equal education.

Great whites have a dark gray upper body to camouflage them from above and a stark white underbelly to camouflage them from below.

I've always been drawn to desert landscapes for their stark, surreal beauty and rich, warm light.

He pronounced on the American condition with stark, unalloyed confidence.

In Beijing, the wide gap between Chinese and U. S. strategic interests was on stark display over North Korea.

[font=Times New Roman]It is such doctrinaire thinking and stark partisanship that have turned Americans off of politics.

There are stark differences between the debt dilemmas in the U. S. and Europe.

His actions were in stark contrast to his words.

It exists such stark contrast, between Creator of human strength and weakness, don't you think that?

SAN DIEGO -- For plants, animals and marine life whose environment changes, their options are stark and simple: Move, adapt or die.

The interior was printed on a toothy off-white paper that contrasts beautifully with the stark white cover.

Recent tensions between Beijing and Tokyo offer another stark example of how China's growing assertiveness has rattled the region.

That's troublesome, and if proven true, it's also a pretty stark case of discriminating against someone because of their sexual orientation.

The real bottom line is stark: no animal experiment has ever saved a human life. But animal experiments have led to many human deaths.

An early draft of the script revealed Tony Stark to be the creator of Dr. Otto Octavius's tentacles from Spider-Man 2 (2004).

Nuanced treatment of the Chinese characters is in stark contrast with portrayal of the Japanese as monochrome monsters.

A stark economic contrast between the mainly Muslim north and the Christian and animist south is also fanning the flames.

Stark. Producers of corn-based ethanol are themselves investing in ways to use more crop waste to offset emissions, she added.

Arrington issued a stark ultimatum, that AOL restore "editorial independence" or sell the blog back to him.

There were no shower cubicles and everyone just showered stark naked in an open space.

This shift is particularly stark among the young.

Sweden's deportations are a stark reversal from a few years ago.

House Stark of Winterfell - A running grey dire wolf , on an ice - white field .

The challenges for this vast, voiceless majority are multidimensional and stark.

The results could also have implications in different areas, as Robert Stark, coauthor from LMU Munich, explained.

China's rate increases heighten the already-stark contrast with the U. S. economy, a contrast that is complicating Beijing's policy choices.

And the sharp-tooth oak tree bare in stark contrast to the dense forests of the lower school of Arundinaria fargesii is green and luxuriant.