And each of these placards bore a stark message, white on black or black on white.

At intersections where more than three people have been killed, the signs carry the stark message: "A pedestrian was killed crossing here."

Mr. Clinton's bill should deliver a stark message to teen-age parents that welfare will no longer substitute for work.

Something used by the police to reinforce its power here carries a stark message of power misused.

Her mother, a widow, had a starker message.

Delivering a stark message to the world's leaders, he deliberately sets them all against him by threatening to throw their missiles into the sun.

It was essential to bring home a stark message that in a democracy there is one man one vote regardless of their colour, race or religion.

Your Mahler performances have always seemed to carry a starker, more purely tragic message.

The stark message of the sensors is that almost five years after the collapse of Communism, the region's environment continues to decay.

That was one stark message from the New Hampshire primary.