Sentences with phrase «sober second»

The Realtor is supposed to be like our Senate is «supposed» to be, being the «Chamber of Sober Second Thought».

However, Carolyne, between the two of us (you and I) it is yourself who enjoys the distinction of having one of your REM letters pulled, upon a sober second thought by Jim Adair, because some of the content was so vile — in that, you attempted to leverage off of the defenseless to try and make your vengeful argument!

«I'm glad a sober second thought can now take place on the privatization of Realtor.ca,» says Kay.

A sober second thought on new music, cool records, and the people making their own culture.

After throat - clearing describing the Senate's roles as a legislative chamber of «sober second thought,» and one in which both the regions of Canada and minorities, not well represented in the House of Commons, could have a voice, the substantive part of the Court's opinion begins with a discussion of the nature of the Canadian constitution and constitutional amendment.

It won't change or strengthen any laws around executive compensation but a recent decision from the Ontario Court of Appeal should have boards giving sober second thought to how they grant big bonuses and golden parachutes to top executives.

(Who among us hasn't sent out an email which, upon sober second thought, we wished we could retract?)

We lack, as Billingsley describes, the sober second thought that these comments may one day come under the microscope if up for an appointment.

For example, for the composition of Canada's Parliament, [1] in addition to the House of Commons, the Senate was added as a «chamber of sober second thought,» because, it is said, Canada's founding father and first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, was frequently not sober.

It should instead let administrative judicial review be a matter of practice and the appropriate judicial attitude, one of respectful attention to any decision - maker's reasons for a particular decision, while recognizing that judges provide a sober second thought through judicial review, particularly on matters of legal interpretation.

I differ a bit with Alex in that I do think the sober second thought remains a useful rationale.

Clauses such as «subject to home inspection,» «subject to obtaining satisfactory financing,» and «subject to lawyer's approval» provide purchasers — who may have hastily submitted an offer — with an opportunity for sober second thought.

Many an ill - considered email has been sent without that useful sober second thought.

The traditional bastion of sober second thought — our courts — are facing an all - out assault against judicial discretion with mandatory minimum sentences and the wholesale pillaging of the conditional sentence regime.

These malleable pastel - coloured plaster sculptures contrast with Adriano Costa's dimly - lit and sober second room.

Meanwhile, HarperCollins announced its «HarperCollins 360» global publishing program, which at first I thought was them taking a page from the music industry's post-Napster «360 deals «-- but no; on sober second thought it has nothing to do with those except for name.

A new medical guideline published today suggests Canada's family physicians should take a sober second thought before prescribing medical cannabis to most patients.

Some children are born sensible, with sober second thought a part of their nature.

On sober second thought, I've reconsidered.

Sober second thoughts, or knee - jerk political reflexes?

Harper, of course, is having none of this sober second thinking, and is reportedly going to force the Senate to meet through the summer to pass the Bill.

Abolishing Canada's upper chamber of «sober second thought» will be hard, maybe even impossible.

It just gives me a sober second thought that any economic benefit we'd ever see from that pipeline would be wiped out in, what, three months?

At press time, that number continues to grow by more than 1,000 emails each day, with individuals sharing their stories and impressing upon our elected officials that a sober second thought is needed to avoid far - reaching, negative consequences.

This moment of sober second thought caused the executives» e-mail production to drop 54 %.

Not exact matches

Healthy and sober, Masih says he's «thrilled and grateful to be given a second chance to work in this field helping many people suffering from the disease of addiction.»

According to Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn, it's all of eight seconds long, a sobering tidbit not lost on the creators of Ocho, a slick social video sharing app that launched today in the Apple App Store.

Second, I think Shaw said it best, «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 sufferings of the Second World War and the spread of communism served to accentuate the note of sober realism in the social attitudes of the ecumenical movement.

It would be observed by the sober - minded that the Reformed Confessions explicitly constrain marriage to a man and a woman (e.g. Second Helvetic Confession [1566], XXIX.2 & Westminster Confession [1647], XXIV.2).

Sober, industrious and otherwise well - adjusted men have been known to fall into gargling, sputtering rages as, sitting helplessly before their TV sets, they feel themselves assaulted by Allen's tedious, drawn - out explanations («For the benefit of those not so familiar with the game, the infield fly rule states that, with first and second base or first, second and third occupied and less than two out, a ball which in the judgment of the umpire,» etc..

Statistics are sobering: drowning is the number one cause of accidental death for children ages 1 to 4, and the second leading cause of accidental death for children ages 5 to 14, says Kyle Kamman, senior director of program strategy and implementation of aquatics at the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago.

By the time I'd got through pregnancy and nursing, I was well on my way to being * easily * sober, without a second thought.

Lehto's detailed chronology of «individual lift devices» is on the dry side, but you learn the sober truth about why these machines never took off: Flight times were measured in seconds rather than minutes; the devices often cost as much as a luxury car; and there was no elegant solution for a malfunctioning jetpack in midair.

Most comedians couldn't manage their own performance anxiety (not to mention second - hand embarrassment for other performers) completely sober, even for a month.I remember reading her post, passing judgment, and thinking: If you were drinking enough that you felt like you needed to scale back, shouldn't you do it for more than just one month?

Then the second date comes along and you choose to start sober and suddenly you notice a number of mismatches that you didn't pick up on before.

Air of sober intimacy notwithstanding, Amour, which won the Palme d'or at this year's Cannes Film Festival (Haneke's second such honor in only three years), is a horror film.

Cretton tackles some sobering material in this, his second film, dealing with troubled youth in a group home.

Michael Haneke had just won his second Palme d'Or for his sobering romance about old age «Amour,» and rightfully so.

A laughable moment arises when a flailing and drunk Billy sobers up in seconds flat after his assistant (Alona Tal) calls him to inform him of a murder.

In the second part of our essay, readers may judge our commentary somewhat perverse, even contradictory to our initial lauding of the more sober, restrained, and provisional spirit of the 2015 guidelines.

Oh, sure, the hatchback that entered its second generation in 2012 is a fun little piece, but the sedan, just arrived this year, is a very sober and serious matter indeed.

However, she's offered a second chance for her dream job — but first she has to go undercover at rehab to follow a Lindsay Lohan - like celebrity as she tries to sober up.

With The Next Right Thing, author Dan Barden mixes up a cocktail of grit and sentimentality infused with mystery, humor, A.A. philosophy and several drops of California sunshine.This is Barden's second novel, following 1997's John Wayne, and he gives his readers a complex protagonist in Randy Chalmers, former cop and alcoholic turned home designer and sober A.A. meeting attendee...

Cory Sober, who works at The Dreaming, knew of his past but said, «I believe in second chances and since he was a Narcotics Anonymous member I know that he was trying to make up for a poorly spent past, so I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt.»

Consider it a sober - second opinion from a professional with your best interests at heart.

Instead, she cites his sobering reelection in 2012 as the show's genesis: the second time around, she recalls, there was still pride, but also a diminishment of expectations.

The second half of my life has been clean and sober; unyieldingly devoted to studying wildlife, wildlife habitat gardening, natural history; the ebb and flow of nature.

The latest evidence has come in the last few days, with the release of «Before the Flood,» a sobering new climate film (watchable in full online) featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, and the second season of «Years of Living Dangerously,» a series of celebrity - guided, but substantive, pieces on human - driven climate change and the clean - energy challenge.

Mentors are critical in motivating you to consider pursing a legal career, in showing you the ropes once you start you career, in providing you with advice, acting as second, sober thought in making career transition decisions and in helping you make critical contacts and build networks.