The European sky used to offer a stark choice between full-service and budget airlines.
As Ahmadinejad knows, we have a stark choice: a world without America, or one without Islamofascism.
Tax receipts plunge, giving the government a stark choice of cutting back on services, raising taxes or increased deficit spending.
The higher-education industry faces a stark choice: either adapt to a rapidly changing world or face a future of cheeseparing.
Soviet boss Mikhail Gorbachev faced a stark choice--give the go-ahead for murderous repression in East Germany or tear down the Wall.
For most people, the housing market still offers a stark choice: rent or take on lots of debt for a house purchase.
Many suspects face a stark choice: confess to treason and be jailed, or risk a Stalinesque show trial and the death penalty.
If he wants to defuse the whole row over executive pay, he could present business leaders with a stark choice: gongs or bonuses?
For many it was a stark choice: buy or be bought.
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The J-11B presented Russia with a stark choice to continue selling China weapons, and risk having them cloned, too, or to stop, and miss out on its still lucrative market.
U. may be faced with a stark choice: Continue the half-measures that are driving the euro zone ever deeper into recession, or allow the introduction of dual currencies to preserve the euro.
That Congress confronts just such a stark choice has been made clear by the new agreements reached in Tallinn, Estonia late last week by 13 of the 15 republics of the former USSR.
In the end Europe faces a stark choice: to force some of the weaker countries out of the eurozone or for the stronger countries to assume responsibility for the bloc's debts as a whole.
Later in the day, during a second meeting, Boehner offered his members a stark choice: alter the bill by adding spending cuts to it, and send it back to the Senate, or pass it unamended.
The campaign will seek to create sustained shareholder insistence that public companies that help underwrite terrorist-sponsoring governments are presented with a stark choice: Become part of the solution to state-sponsored terror or suffer significant financial consequences.
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"It is a big sum of money in the context of a police force where I want to get more uniformed officers back on the beat - it is a stark choice that has to be made, " he said.
And within America, there has long been a tension between those who describe themselves as realists or idealists -- a tension that suggests a stark choice between the narrow pursuit of interests or an endless campaign to impose our values.
Faced with such a stark choice between the Israeli people and the Biblical land, Israel, he says, would choose the people and withdraw from the West Bank, uprooting dozens of settlements, though not those in the main blocs protecting Israel's border.
Faced with the restiveness in his own ranks, Mr. Obama in his press conference Tuesday said he made the deal because he was faced with a stark choice: Give Republicans what he called their "holy grail" the income tax cuts for the wealthy or risk a major economic blow to the U.S. economy and to "real people" with real economic struggles.
Canada, after all, presents a rather stark choice: invest a smaller amount early and produce a citizen who pays taxes and contributes to the system or pay a much larger amount later for the upkeep of a citizen who consumes tax monies and contributes nothing.
Because what we now have -- and I spoke to this yesterday -- is a very stark choice.
Those sanctions are having an effect and are posing a pretty stark choice for the Iranian regime about the way forward.
Its modern realities now stand in stark contrast to its older self as once a choice destination for America's elite.
The pair also neatly embody the stark choice that the French left has never really confronted: between a return to the old-style protectionism that Mr Montebourg calls deglobalisation, and a recognition that the debt crisis and globalisation have changed the rules, as Mr Valls urges.
Both GM and Chrysler faced the stark choice of seeking government support or facing almost certain uncontrolled liquidations, which would have had a ripple effect across the industry, causing at least one million more jobs to be lost.
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