Sentences with phrase «sober assessment»

• Government pay frozen for five years • PM orders cabinet to keep differences private • Osborne gives sober assessment of economy

Fortuna Advisors, a financial consulting firm that compiles a buyback scorecard, has a particularly sobering assessment of the strategy's effectiveness.

On the contrary: The Mind of God is rather a reappraisal of reductionism (its sweeping generalizations about the nonexistence of things like the mind and the soul) and a most refreshing if also sober assessment of the limits of mathematics and the physical theories it supports.

Getting drunk on Morley tends toward Blue Labour solutions when sober assessment of British history points in the opposite direction: toward social liberalism and economic liberalism.

More importantly, I chose Scientific American because the magazine publishes sober assessments of science, often by scientists themselves.»

Kiki demands that its audience pay attention and listen to its seven main interlocutors, who, in addition to Mizrahi and Pucci Garçon, include Gia Marie Love (shown before and after her transition), the speaker of the film's most sobering assessment: «Our community is on very intimate terms with death.»

Hito Steyerl's acclaimed video installation «Factory of the Sun (2015), currently on view at the Whitney as part of the beautifully curated exhibition «Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905 — 2016, is an incredibly complex and ultimately sober assessment into the broadening elasticity between news, entertainment and virtual reality.

With the publication of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to A Meaningful Life, William Deresiewicz's sober assessment of contemporary higher education was both praised and lampooned by commentators across the spectrum.

Let's have a sober assessment of this industry.

Our sober assessment of empirical data was accompanied by an ironic defiance of any prescribed emotion.

David Mills offered a sober assessment of how much of the abortion regime lies outside federal law.

In his sober assessment of the current state of post-conciliar Catholicism, Ross Douthat argues that Cardinal Newman's 1845 theory of doctrinal development should be updated to account for subsequent developments.

Come on CC you talk about «realism» and sober assessment and then advocate replacing 4 or 5 of the 1st X1.

Last week's New Climate Economy report was a good example of giving a sober assessment of the challenges (rapid urbanisation, growing populations, resource constraints, climate change), accompanied by a positive story that cutting greenhouse emissions can be low cost and improve people's lives.

His sober assessment of this election result is that it's a mixture of 1992 and 1997.

Unless there is a sober assessment of what is going right and wrong on both sides there can be no realistic negotiating posture.

On the same day President Barack Obama met with three Americans who thwarted a terrorist attack last month on a train headed for Paris, U.S. Rep. John Katko delivered a sobering assessment of the United States» surface transportation security.

I think a sober assessment is that up till now, almost all of us who work in theoretical physics have failed to live up to Einstein's legacy.

Management of emerging risks in life science and technology requires new leadership and a sober assessment of the legacy of Asilomar

In any event, Bement offered the National Science Board a sober assessment of likely congressional action on the 2011 budget after members suggested that prospects looked rosy.

That is the researchers» sober assessment of an Ebola drug that made page one news earlier this month when it was touted as the first promising treatment for this deadly disease.

Feng shares the critics» sober assessment that, at least in neuroscience, animal models have failed to deliver breakthrough treatments.

That was the sobering assessment offered Friday by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Acting Director Dr. Anne Schuchat.

Until that final, slow transition that blends an ordinary image with an extraordinary man — turning the former into a symbol and the latter into an idol — Steven Spielberg's film is a sober assessment of its subject.

Based on Naomi Alderman's novel, Disobedience is a sober assessment of the insularity of faith, a movie that can be both frustratingly simple and thuddingly bleak.

We aimed to produce a sober assessment of current conditions and guarded optimism about a new tack.

Valuable course, most so in its sober assessment of the likelihood of an aspiring author ever getting a publishing deal.

Keith Kloor, blogging on the session at Collide - a-Scape, included a sobering assessment of the scientist - journalist tensions over global warming from Tom Rosensteil, a panelist and long - time journalist who now heads up Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism:

J. Michael Wallace of the University of Washington, someone whose views I've tracked closely for decades, had this sobering assessment (I've asked him to clarify what he means by «irreversible» given various papers (e.g., 1, 2, 3) cutting against that idea and will add an update when it comes):

A sober assessment will acknowledge that fossil fuels are remarkable sources of energy — cheap, energy dense, and widely available.

Dr. Michael Oppenheimer, a climate scientist at Environmental Defense, a private environmental group and one of the authors of the summary, said it represented a balanced, sober assessment of the risks ahead.

But his not - so - sober assessment is sure to elicit a toast from old - school lawyers everywhere.

Indeed, in this effective Slate commentary focused upon the judicial bias issues raised by the case, Emily Bazelon concludes with this sober assessment:

It's a tough question — one that is better answered by a sober assessment of your skills rather than the sentimental opinion of your mother.

Thus far, rather than a sober assessment of their future prospects, the prices of many cryptocurrencies have exhibited all the classic hallmarks of bubbles, including new paradigm justifications, broadening retail enthusiasm, and extrapolative price expectations reliant in part on finding the greater fool.

Projective identification is produced mostly by your unconscious, magical expectations about being personally completed rather than any sober assessment of reality.