Sentences with phrase «sober thought in»

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.

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«This is a sobering thought for other producers currently sitting on shut - in production capacity and facing a renewed challenge to their market share,» the Paris - based organization added.

This level approaches that witnessed in the U.S. and Britain just prior to the collapse of their respective financial systems and housing markets — a sobering thought.

That's a sobering thought — for the first time in years, we're trapeze artists without a net.

It is a sobering thought that 99 % of the 5,000 railway companies that once existed in America are no longer around.

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?

However, here are some arguments why one should think twice before jumping in bed with gold bugs, or at least remain sober while determining gold's weight in the portfolio.

If any readers are tempted to think that post-Communist nations have a natural affinity for CST, Jonathan Luxmoore's excellent essay on the lack of social concern in the Polish church is sobering.

An active alcoholic — that was me — who wants to get sober but can't, and who is coming to believe that every good thing she once thought about God is a lie, is in a scary place.

And if the thought does not make you giddy, if you are sober and alert, are you particular in every respect in your use of the means?

I've been sober in AA for quite a few years and have felt that I had to hide or defend my lack of belief in a higher power, but I think much of that discomfort comes from my need to fit in.

Del, sorry I missed your post earlier... What you wrote is a sobering reality for many people, but many will tuck it in deep within themselves, and refuse to deal with it, thinking that if they leave it alone, it'll go away... People just don't know what playing with things which are supposed to be sacred in our lives and taking them lightly, causes and where it leads to.

It is a sobering thought that Richard Wilbur, the two - time Pulitzer Prize - winning poet (1957, 1989) who was named poet laureate of the United States in 1987, is now ninety years old.

But time and place are strong medicine for many in our world, where, to quote Flannery O'Connor, many people «ain't frum anywhere,» and where a contemporary writer like Warren's fellow Kentuckian Bobbie Ann Mason finds a sobering story in the lives of many of her characters who can't think of anything to do with themselves.

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 list could go on, but there is enough here to serve as a sobering reminder of the capacity of religious authorities to think themselves right when in fact they are promulgating what is cruel and unjust.

Speculative philosophy is an attempt to think experience: not only the fact of experience itself but also what shows itself in the welter of all our experiences: experience drunk and experience sober.

It may be a sobering thought, but most of what is good and most of what is bad in our history is rooted in our public theology.

Among the publicly attentive, even the most sober minds suspected that some major change in black - white relations may be underway — or at least a major change in the way we think and talk about black - white relations.

It isn't even about God... what this writer who «sobered up» without God doesn't get is that in AA (which incidentally she, by virtue of writing her article is in direct conflict with one of the Twelve Traditions of AA) it clearly says «as we understood Him» — your Higher Power can be your dog, as long as you realize you aren't running the show... lest we forget that our best «thinking» got us there...

I think of Mr. P., a business executive and church member, who after many years of periodic binges had been happily sober in AA for three years.

On a sober note, our thoughts are with the people in Vanuatu.

«I think the ego of someone who even conceives of setting the world record in the mile doesn't allow for a sober look at things,» says Masback.

I am seriously tired of him repeating himself everytime when he gets beat, I think it's a big big yawn for any sober Arsenal fan.And it seems Wenger is getting consistent in the wrong area from my point of view too!

However, as Roma prepare to entertain Barcelona for the return leg in Rome on Tuesday night, it is a sobering thought to reflect that the Catalan side's 4 - 1 win last week came on a night when Barcelona were not even playing especially well.

Alcohol was not forbidden fruit for me as a teen, although drinking and driving was, and I think as a result I approached it better than many of my peers (who would jump in the car and race home from a party to make curfew, whereas I was encouraged to call home and say that I needed to sober up before driving).

On a more sobering note, it may be important to consider or reflect on whether you would think that you suffocated your baby if, under the most unlikely scenario, your baby died from SIDS while in your bed.

Just thinking of all the things I might need for an infant made my head swim, and imagining how much more challenging this transition would be for women who living in poverty is a sobering thought.

It is sobering to think that, if people of conscience had responded to Williams» call, then Corey Johnson might never have been dragged into the fine procedural net that the NYPD has cast in pursuit of «Broken Windows» policing.

They want people to think that they are responsible and reasonable, while Labour are vandals who got drunk wrecking the economy and now can't sober up enough to play any sensible part in putting it right.

As the local election results come in and Ukip's numbers continue to look remarkable, the rest of us should maybe pause for thought and realise that something rather sobering is afoot, as happened in the 2012 county council elections, only more so.

It should be a sobering thought to Nick Clegg that many large employers, seeing a pattern of behaviour and multiple complaints, would have started a misconduct process in a similar case.

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.

You know I think part of that is the sobering effect of now saying well we have the same circumstance in our country.

«Future studies will need to very carefully investigate and access the toxicity of titanium suboxide nanoparticles in the human lung, and this could take years, a sobering thought considering its potential danger,» Hochella said.

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.

This incredible journey, although I would never exchange it for anything, was extremely painful and resulted in my making soul ties with many men I would never have fallen in love with had I given it a moment's sober thought.

Some people think that these continual reminders about how important it is to get rid of excess pounds will keep us motivated to stay on a diet or put in our daily gym time, but the reality is sobering.

When I did the math, I was scared «sober» from the thought of packing on an additional 18 lbs in three weeks, of which only three pounds was baby growth.

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.

If someone is struggling to stay sober, I don't think I'd include that in a profile (but I also might suggest that person postpone dating online while they work on that area of their life).

Think of each member you'll meet at Sober Dating Site as someone who has the potential to be in your corner, helping you stay on straight and narrow.

His mise en scène is very sober, with deliberate pacing, no music, and muted cinematography in blue and gray hues, with things moving in and out of frame, in and out of focus... In a not so specific way, this made me think of M. Night Shyamalan's visual style; the fact that the film is about how people deal with grief, like many of the «Sixth Sense» director's films, only furthered this impressioin blue and gray hues, with things moving in and out of frame, in and out of focus... In a not so specific way, this made me think of M. Night Shyamalan's visual style; the fact that the film is about how people deal with grief, like many of the «Sixth Sense» director's films, only furthered this impressioin and out of frame, in and out of focus... In a not so specific way, this made me think of M. Night Shyamalan's visual style; the fact that the film is about how people deal with grief, like many of the «Sixth Sense» director's films, only furthered this impressioin and out of focus... In a not so specific way, this made me think of M. Night Shyamalan's visual style; the fact that the film is about how people deal with grief, like many of the «Sixth Sense» director's films, only furthered this impressioIn a not so specific way, this made me think of M. Night Shyamalan's visual style; the fact that the film is about how people deal with grief, like many of the «Sixth Sense» director's films, only furthered this impression.

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 think those of us in the «idea - generating» business would be sobered by the experience.

Of course, it was proving a little difficult to think about this, since we were roaring around the southern tip of Sweden in the 2015 Volvo S60 Polestar and 2015 Volvo V60 Polestar, two high - performance cars that would make even a Swede forget to be sober and sensible for a few moments.

Initially I thought it was rather under - played in sober grey - black but closer inspection reveals that beneath the lacquer is a carbonfibre weave that looks very cool indeed.

Alsenas blends friendship, romance, and musical theater with some sobering topics in this story, offering readers the opportunity to think through some weighty matters on their own.

There is one sobering thought today, too, from our colleague Eoin Purcell in Dublin, whose new article mentions that there's another side to the joy of things never going out of print... namely that you must compete with absolutely everything, as well.

«I don't think that's completely gone,» he said, but added that now people have woken up to a sobering reality that home prices don't always go up and that putting money down might be in their best interest as a homeowner.