Sentences with phrase «sober fact»

There comes a time when it'll be sober fact.

It is a sober fact that quite a large number of hedonists end by committing suicide.

Listening to these self - declared moralists and traditionalists, it seems to me I hear from time to time a little satisfaction in the sober fact that God, as our cultures have variously received him through the Hebrew scriptures, seems to loathe, actually abominate, certain kinds of transgression.

It is sober fact in the light of which all life is most realistically to be lived.

Now for a sobering fact: All the whiz - bang computing power in the world can't find knowledge in the data if the data isn't shared to begin with.

Carly Fiorina: Let's start with some sobering facts to put this into context.

An even more profound and sobering fact is that 80 % of business buyers today say that they found their vendors as opposed to vendors finding them.

I think it's a sobering fact that we humans are our own highest authority, but we choose not to believe it.

These letters drove home to me the sobering fact that the Electronic Church is a formidable threat to mainline churches today, not because it threatens to reduce income or attendance, but because it has revealed a significant failure on the part of most mainline churches to deal with many of the people in their own neighborhoods.

We are forced to face the sobering fact that in any ultimate sense «the World - Spirit and world events remain to us incomprehensible» (Indian Thought, p. 263).

The sobering fact is that out of all the Bible references to homosexuality, every one is negative regarding its practice.

Washington's 20 - 17 victory over the Carolina Panthers simultaneously validated the owner's off - season spending spree and confirmed the sobering fact that there are some things — love, eternal life, adequate special teams play — that money can't buy.

If you have teens in your home, consider these sobering facts from the DEA:

This year's World Environment Day theme addresses a sobering fact: One - third of all food produced globally is wasted.

One of the most sobering facts of bodybuilding is that muscle growth is not an infinite process.

Here's a sobering fact: 30 million people in the U.S. will suffer from a diagnosable eating disorder during their lifetime, while many more cases go unreported.

Protect Our Winters, an environmental advocacy group, accompanied the athletes and presented sobering facts about the economics of the industry: Low snow years have caused the loss of 17,400 jobs and decreased the estimated value to the economy by over $ 1 billion since 2001.

Announcing the launch of its exciting new safety and verification - orientated product update, which integrates the ID verification system used by Airbnb and easyJet, TrueView co-founder Andrew Ibbotson collected some sobering facts about the dangers of online dating.

Here are six sobering facts about online dating services and a few suggestions for routing around the privacy pitfalls.

But that in itself is revealing: what 20 years ago would have been a cliched, paranoid cyber-thriller now feels like a filmed list of sober facts — a sign of how much the world has changed.

With this sobering fact in mind, why would you ever choose an authoring tool that doesn't allow you to make alterations quickly and efficiently?

Despite these sobering facts, there has been a constant refrain from mostly Democrats over the last decade claiming that Mississippi is not spending enough money on education and should «fully fund» the Mississippi Adequate Education Program.

However, the sobering fact is that a month of recent F - Series sales is greater than the Ridgeline's whole 2006 best - selling year.

Becky Mueller, an IIHS senior research engineer and the lead author of the study, points out a sobering fact, saying, «More than 1,600 right - front passengers died in frontal crashes in 2014.»

Maybe it was just the pure vicarious thrill of «discovering the hard facts of the writer's trade,» reading of the glances of «cold disdain» thrown down upon Lucien as he walks in his cheap frock coat and out - of - fashion «Nankeen trousers» amidst the beau monde; or Lucien greeting the sobering facts of the mercantile chicanery of publishers, for whom «books were like cotton bonnets to haberdashers, a commodity to be bought cheap and sold dear.»

This is a particularly sobering fact for older Americans who can expect to spend between $ 200,000 to $ 400,000 out of pocket for medical expenses during retirement,» Bell said in a statement announcing the results.

The sobering fact is that the typical equity mutual fund investor's portfolio has lagged inflation from 1984 to 2003, while barely beating inflation over the last couple of decades, according to a study done by Dalbar, a Boston investment research company.

If you think it can't happen to you, check out these sobering facts and statistics to get an idea of just how big the problem is.

The sobering fact: You'll see many once - proud, five - star funds have dropped to four stars, three stars or worse.

Not a cheery - beery topic, but the sobering fact is that because of misleading propaganda put out by the pit bull advocacy movement and Rottweiler fans, pit bulls are growing in popularity as pets; as a result, maimings of humans by pit bulls in North America have gone from 35 in 1992 to 184 in the first six months of 2013 (equal to all of 2012).

With these sobering facts on the table, banking reform is a hotly debated issue in the upcoming presidential election.

But the Internet has engendered a competitive media environment where in the race to attract the most hits, sensational headlines can trump sober facts.

It's a sobering fact that the world's coral reefs — habitat to a quarter of marine wildlife — are facing serious danger from ocean pollution and acidification, warming temperatures and human pressures like overfishing and tourism.

Furthermore, examination of this record over the last 5 million years reveals a sobering fact.

As a final post, here is a sobering fact: LAWPRO stats show that 4 out of 5 lawyers will face a malpractice claim during their careers.

Here are few more sobering facts regarding drunk driving accidents in Florida from the CDC and MADD:

As we reported in a recent Business of Law Blog post, among the many revelations found in the latest report is this sobering fact: When it comes to engaging outside counsel for significant... Read More»

In response to these sobering facts, the city of Louisville has become more aware of the high rate of pedestrian injury in the state and launched a campaign to promote driver and pedestrian safety.

Most notable, perhaps, is the sobering fact that Indigenous women and girls are disturbingly over-represented in provincial prisons.

Here are some sobering facts:

To get started, let's take a look at some sobering facts from the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) from October 1, 2012:

That 8 % yield may sway investors from some sobering facts about the company, though.

Not exact matches

The facts are sobering: the majority of small businesses fail within five years of starting up.

-- Vote for fiscal conservatives who want to fix problem; — Educate ourselves (through discussions like these); and — Make personal investment decisions with a sober understanding of the facts.

I respond to this with a relevant quote: The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

«The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw noted that, «The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

The settled conditions necessary for the writing of sober history are altogether absent; yet the facts imprint themselves deeply upon folk - memory, and are handed down in the characteristic form of heroic legends.

What is sobering in this regard is the fact that so many of the intellectual leaders of our time are willing to stop with intellectual convincement.

Even more significant, from the standpoint of human values, than the record of uninterrupted sobriety is the fact that even those who had had frequent slips during their AA experience had been sober the bulk of the time.