Sentences with phrase «of sobering news»

But here's a bit of sobering news: jobs are never more insecure than they are in the first few weeks of employment.

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The news was a sobering new data point supporting the long - accepted thesis that a rapidly changing climate is transforming the face of the earth.
On the contentious question of what good news the church has for gay Christians, few books are more sober, plodding, or poignant than Oliver O'Donovan's Church in Crisis.
The Good News has come to Christians, news of things into which the angels long to look, therefore they must gird up their minds and be sober in hope and in obedience (1:10 - News has come to Christians, news of things into which the angels long to look, therefore they must gird up their minds and be sober in hope and in obedience (1:10 - news of things into which the angels long to look, therefore they must gird up their minds and be sober in hope and in obedience (1:10 - 14).
The bad news for believers, if there is any, is surely the failure of the more sober scholars to reach a consensus on the historical Jesus: if they agree on anything at all, it is that the Gospels can not be taken for historical or biographical accounts of what the Jesus of history said, did and suffered.
But speaking on Wednesday, he appeared to be in more sober mood as he told Sky News that delivering the reform was part of the «obligations» between the two parties that must be met.
Yet a mouse study reported in May by Mark Kay's lab at the Stanford University School of Medicine delivered some sobering news about RNAi.
That sobering news came in three talks by paleoseismologists — researchers who literally dig up records of past earthquakes and tsunamis — associated with Nanyang Technological University's Earth Observatory of Singapore.
Yet what we are likely to get is piecemeal, fragmented stories of «breakthroughs» with incomplete details, more sober publication in science journals that appear later, news commentary that lasts a few days, and very little systematic effort to think through what policy should be.
That brings me to the morning of December 13, in my accountant's office, when I got the sobering news: I am not, in any way, as solvent as I thought I was.
At a time when social network privacy — or the lack of it — is headline news, two Stanford researchers have some sobering findings about how personal data is becoming increasingly difficult to hide if we have any public...
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Initially it looked like «Anchorman 2» was going to have life as a Broadway musical (though quite how anyone thought they were going to make a glitzy stage show about the cutthroat rough - and - tumble of television news and the sobering questions of journalistic ethics the original film raised is beyond us), but thankfully sanity prevailed and we get to revisit the Channel Four News team nearly one decade on, as they face the challenges of a new era with hope, integrity and, probably, sconews and the sobering questions of journalistic ethics the original film raised is beyond us), but thankfully sanity prevailed and we get to revisit the Channel Four News team nearly one decade on, as they face the challenges of a new era with hope, integrity and, probably, scoNews team nearly one decade on, as they face the challenges of a new era with hope, integrity and, probably, scotch.
Just as soon as the state's new test scores were released — and even before, in the case of mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio — reactions started flying about the sobering news about student achievement in New York.
The «sobering news» of CPS» financial condition led KIPP to emphasize in its proposal to CPS that «co-location is the right model for our organization.»
If recent news of California's lackluster standardized test scores was sobering, just wait until individual student results reach household mailboxes.
District workers removing thousands of books and either donating or destroying them is sobering news.
To those people struggling to pay off debt today, I've got some sobering news for you: debt is the least of your financial problems.
Here's some sobering news: One in four dogs will develop some type of cancerous tumor.
Shocking news reports, violent acts, grim pictures are paired with people's descriptions, which in some cases are the stuff of legend, although related in a sober tone.
Climate scientist Chris Field of Stanford University relayed the first bit of bad news to a sober audience during his talk, «What is New and Surprising since the IPCC Fourth Assessment.»
In an interview a couple of days ago, he summarized the sobering news — that field work in the last few years has revealed that the reservoir of old carbon is three times larger than older estimates, and other work suggests that it could escape at a faster rate than previously presumed.
The world outside the United States, when measured by coverage on American television news, is a very tiny, contorted place, as laid out in a short, sobering, but funny talk posted recently on YouTube and also presented at the annual TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference by Alisa Miller, the head of Public Radio International.
There's some sobering news on two fronts that many climate campaigners, and politicians, have put at the forefront of their climate agendas: passing legislation capping carbon dioxide emissions and demonstrating technology for capturing and burying the main human - generated greenhouse gas.
But while the avoidance of another government shutdown in January is certainly welcome news, the budget deal's implications for U.S. energy policy and the climate are sobering.
From the ominous report on global energy use to the headlines about record - high temperatures in 2016, this past month has given the world no shortage of sobering climate news.
We just learned that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon saw an amazing 1000 % spike in December, and now some sobering news about deforestation in Southeast Asia: Mongabay reports than Sumatra and the Indonesian part of Borneo (Kalimantan) lost 9.2 %
This was sobering news since I personally eat seven of those items on a regular basis, and another three when they're in season.
A recent Washington Post article reported some sobering news for parents of infants and babies in the U.S.:[...]
Addressed to law firms and their managing partners, it included the sobering news that most of the newsletters and articles firms helpfully sent her way were only glanced at or went unread altogether.
In what must be some sobering news for Google, according to this Voicebot report, only 18.4 percent of American smart speaker owners have a Google Home product.
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