Sentences with phrase «sobering conclusion»

Researchers came to these not - so - sobering conclusions after studying 30 men and 30 women.
Following the lead of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, the game builds toward an incredibly sobering conclusion.
We come to a rather sobering conclusion: As a field, we don't actually know very much about how to prepare teachers or help them improve.
There are perhaps many explanations for this trend, but it does correlate nicely with the technological explosion — especially of the Internet — over the past few decades, which invites a sobering conclusion.
That leads him to a sobering conclusion: «There's a lot of talk about creative destruction and renewal and many are looking at the venture backed tech companies to lead the way in renewal and job creation.
He came to a sobering conclusion for all involved in the war — the US won't be leaving anytime soon.
And the author comes to some sobering conclusions in the first chapter: only massive upheaval through wars, revolution, disasters, famine and disease has been successful historically in leveling economic conditions.
The sober conclusion here: Stocks are likely, although not certain, to be the highest - performing asset over the long run.
George Hunt, ponders the ways in which Catholics vote in elections and comes up with this: «One sobering conclusion to all this: Beware all commentators who speak airily of the «Catholic» vote — or a uniform «Catholic» anything, for that matter.»
After spending years trying to sequence the genome of American secularism, I have arrived at a sobering conclusion: no - ism is as misunderstood as this one.
The reason for such a sober conclusion is simply that the apologetic method, almost by definition, leaves too much out.
And he reaches a sobering conclusion: «Hierarchies are a poor basis for the application of evidence in clinical practice.
In his 2009 book, Knols drew a sobering conclusion about his academic work until then.
It's hard to be sure how much of that sober conclusion can be attributed to diminished, inflated grades, waivers, exemptions, and eyewinks that take the place of true academic accomplishment.
The authors analyze income replacement levels of 50 %, 70 % and 100 % at retirement and come to the sobering conclusion that «in a lower, more realistic real - return environment of 2.66 %, the saving effort necessary to achieve the same income replacement is quite higher than under more optimistic expectations.»
To grasp why this will take time, consider Edith Brown Weiss's sobering conclusion that «Earth has become a global commons» knowing that, as Charles Perrings explained, «If we value things at zero they'll be wasted.»
His sobering conclusion was that the earthquake — far more powerful than the temblor that shattered Haiti's capital in January — was a mere aftershock from the 8.4 - magnitude quake in the region on Sept. 12, 2007.
Matthews and Caldeira consider this reality, and come to a sobering conclusion:
Hence, the original work gives rise to the sobering conclusion that net - zero emissions must be a long term societal goal, irrespective of whether the whole issue can be limited to 2 °C.
How did they reach those sobering conclusions?
The LSBC report includes this sobering conclusion:
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