1.   In short, things would get worse, leaving a stark choice between civil war or Martial law.

2.   N., we would face more and more often the stark choice between acting alone and doing nothing.

3.   The case presents a stark choice for the justices.

4.   They think stark choices are dangerous.

5.   Those who lived had a stark choice, submit, or ... flee into exile.

6.   We are faced with a stark choice.

7.   U.K. companies face a stark choice if they want to stay competitive.

8.   Because the poorer elderly spent such a large proportion of their income on fuel, she added, they would face stark choices if the cost rose.

9.   As a practical matter, the political debate better not come down to such a stark choice.

10.   But in developing countries, such fluctuations confront governments with stark choices that dwarf the typical legislative haggling in industrial democracies about spending cuts and tax increases.