There is a stark contrast between northern Somalia and southern Somalia.

In stark contrast, Donald Trump is hiding behind fake excuses and backtracking on his previous promises to release his tax returns.

Disparities in enrolment between urban and rural areas remain stark.

At the same time, a radical reform program within Ukraine is gaining momentum, and slowly becoming visible to both the Ukrainian public and the European authorities. There is a stark contrast between the deteriorating external situation and the continuing progress in internal reforms.

PARIS The contrast between the Schuman Declaration of May 9, 1950, which launched the European unification project through the Coal and Steel Community, and the fearful bid to save Greece and rescue the euro of May 9, 2010, could not be more stark.

Our achievement in the Summit Outcome on the responsibility to protect stands in stark contrast to our silence on the importance of fighting impunity for the worst crimes of international concern.

Nowhere is the gap between rhetoric and reality between declarations and deeds so stark and so deadly as in the field of international humanitarian law.

North Korea stands in stark contrast to Cuba s successful policy of engagement. With its alleged involvement in the recent cyber attack on Sony Pictures, the regime has backed itself further into its tiny corner.

This contrast is associated with broad income differences between owners and renters.

In only two decades, China has become Southeast Asian countries leading economic partner, boosting its influence throughout the region. Chinese leaders constant effort to expand economic cooperation stands in stark contrast to America s approach to the region.

The contrast in literacy rates is especially sharp between Chinese women and Indian women.

Erdoğan s ruling AKP traces its roots to political Islam, and many of its leaders social networks are in Islamic countries in stark contrast to the secular style of Turkey s previous leaders, who proudly displayed their Western identity. As a result, formal and informal links between the new Turkish political élite and the Arab world have been easier to forge.

No country has devised a comprehensive solution to the drug problem. But a solution need not require a stark choice between prohibition and legalization.

Both men were faced with a serious breakdown of law and order in their respective domains, involving violence and rioting against Muslims. But Patel s conduct during the violence that accompanied Partition stands in stark contrast to Modi s behavior in office.

In contrast, there's no relationship between being unhappy now and mind wandering a short time later.

He got his name from fighting stark naked.

Societies where there is a contrast between an opulent few and a neglected majority are not prosperous.

This foreign policy assertiveness is as revolutionary for Japan s diplomacy as Abenomics has been for its economic policy. It marks a stark contrast with the seven decades following Japan s defeat in 1945 in the Pacific War, when successive governments mostly outsourced foreign policy to the United States.

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That is why crises began to increase in number and severity after financial systems in the developed world started to liberalize in the 1970 s, beginning in the United States. This new vulnerability stands in stark contrast to the stability of the over regulated post World War II period.

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NEW DELHI India s democratic credentials do not impress Francis Fukuyama, who two decades ago prophesied the end of history, as being a catalyst for the country s economic growth. Fukuyama finds excessive patronage politics and fractiousness in India flaws that stand in stark contrast to China s speedier, though not necessarily cleaner, political system.

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This new vulnerability stands in stark contrast to the stability of the over regulated post World War II period. The crises in the US in the 1980 s (caused by the savings and loan institutions known as thrifts ), and in Japan and Scandinavia in the 1990 s, showed that financial liberalization without proper regulation induces instability.

The EU faces a stark choice a renewed Eastern Partnership or a renewed division of Europe.

In stark terms, they brought the realities of the problems of the world into this historic Hall.

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That stark, ongoing reality affects young people, who are so vital for the continued development of our societies.

The reality of the times was that he was both. His death brings closer the end of the Gorbachev generation of reform communists, those who like Shevardnadze and the late Boris Yeltsin presented a stark contrast in the late 1980s to the dour Brezhnev era hard liners, spurring (mostly inadvertently) the collapse of the Soviet empire and the long transition to democracy.

Ushahidi, by contrast, is civic value.

CANNES This year s Cannes Film Festival was marked by a profound contrast between what unfolded along La Croisette, the palm lined sweep of pedestrian walkway that stretches between swathes of luxury hotels and the azure Mediterranean, and the films debuting onscreen.

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Hurricane Katrina is a stark reminder of the increasing vulnerability of today's global environment, in which nature respects no boundaries.

In Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, the Congo, Somalia, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Kuwait and elsewhere, the contrast between the normative framework and the harsh, often barbaric reality of the battlefield is bitterly apparent.

Indeed, their serene patience stands in stark contrast to the anxious reticence of Russian leaders, who have yet to surmount the humiliation that Russia suffered as a result of the Soviet Union s disintegration at the end of the Cold War. Russia may be experiencing a global restoration phase, but in politics and economics, and also with respect to its empire, restoration is headed in the wrong direction.

The contrast in this election cannot be clearer.

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