Sentences with phrase «make sobering reading»

This fortnight has seen the publication of two reports into the status of Indigenous Australians, both of which make sobering reading.

Victoria Taylor, Senior dietician at the British Heart Foundation, which part - funded the study, said: «This powerful study may make sobering reading for countries that have set their recommendations at higher levels than the UK, but this does seem to broadly reinforce government guidelines for the UK.

The often humane hopes that drew some Americans toward communism would make sobering reading if related to recognizably secular goals today.

«The National Audit Office report on reducing alcohol harm makes sobering reading.

The Centre for Cities audit of city performance in the ten years to 2013 makes sobering reading.

The findings will make sober reading for global political leaders, who will gather in Paris next week for the start of the United Nations climate conference, known as COP21.

Not exact matches

For those wishing to compare the final months of the Brown government with another Labour government, Bernard Donoughue's Downing Street Diary: With James Callaghan in No. 10 (Pimlico # 16.99) makes for sobering reading.

This report from Medecins Sans Frontieres makes for grim and sober reading: it is clear that the situation facing vulnerable asylum seekers on Lesbos is increasingly precarious, and that urgent action is needed.

Recent reports of the United Kingdom's alarming policy of citizenship - stripping makes for sober reading.

Makes for sobering reading for Cons and some source of solace for Lib Dems.

I admire Carrey for taking on a grim and sobering project made in Krakow, Poland, that requires a range he would never be asked to show in any American sitcom, but Dark Crimes is so lurid, irrelevant and unwatchable it makes you wonder if he ever read the script.

Over at Awards Daily, Sasha Stone has taken it upon herself to whittle down the Best Picture race to a brisk 11 - title list, and it makes for sobering reading: «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» «The Dark Knight» «Doubt» «Frost / Nixon» «Gran Torino» «Milk» «Rachel Getting Married» «The Reader» «Revolutionary Road» «Slumdog Millionaire» «The Wrestler» I -LSB-...]

With this in mind, the Initial Teacher Training (ITT) figures for 2016 to 2017 make for a sobering read.

As I read the sobering new report on gender bias in teens from HGSE's Making Caring Common (MCC), I realized anew that ways of thinking form early.

I'm not making it up; it's something that I read: a guy from Texas wrote like «all you need is 20 bucks and be sober at least» and another from L.A. said, he had to undergone an interrogation as if he was Eddie Snowden himself.

While their books make thrilling reading, they also give us a sobering picture of the violent, war - torn world we inhabit.

The IPCC report makes for sobering reading.