"These conflicts present us with a stark challenge," he said.

The French had no option but to respond to so stark a challenge.

The influx provides a stark challenge for the Clinton Adminstration.

The Iraqi election posed a stark challenge to regional autocrats.

It is a stark challenge from within to the integrity of a department recast in the last dozen years as ethnically diverse and more sensitive force.

It was a place of confidence and raw beauty and stark challenges.

In the book, Mr. Pleasants issued a stark challenge to the world of contemporary composition.

His contempt was not unmingled with pity, but he has posed a disturbing, stark philosophical challenge.

However we face a stark challenge.

Given the stark economic challenges facing a near-bankrupt Republic, unity is a far-off prospect.