"Sobering news" refers to receiving information or updates that are serious, alarming, or thought-provoking, often causing one to become more serious or focused.
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While thousands of local candidates around the state were busy waving signs, making calls and shaking hands in the run up to Tuesday night's results, state officials were absorbing more
sobering news about the growing state budget deficit.
This comes
as sobering news for undergraduate and grad students at Dalhousie, who already pay the highest tuition fees in the country.
Dr. Sheldon Rubin
delivered sobering news to the owner of a schnauzer during a recent visit to his Chicago practice.
Sobering news on a Friday morning: Worldwatch Institute is pointing out how global coral reef losses — 19 % of coral reefs in the world are dead, mostly the result of warming sea - surface temperatures and water acidification — is really a sign pointing towards a coming global extinction event.
Two new Quinnipiac University polls released Thursday in Ohio and Connecticut
provided sobering news for Senate Democrats.
Commodity Funds Fall Short, Study
Says Sobering news for investors in specialty - commodity mutual funds: On average, they fall short on key measures, new research has found.
This probably comes as
somewhat sobering news to fans who where hoping Luigi's evil rival would be a playable character.
This was
sobering news since I personally eat seven of those items on a regular basis, and another three when they're in season.
But here's a bit
of sobering news: jobs are never more insecure than they are in the first few weeks of employment.
When Transportation Commissioner James Redeker spoke at a special meeting of the Northeastern Connecticut Council of Governments on Feb. 2, he
delivered sobering news.
And if you're thinking that the last ten years have seen a wave of feminist enlightenment, here's
some sobering news: the Bechdel test proves too much for some of the biggest and most acclaimed films of 2013, including the Tom Hanks masterpiece Captain Phillips, blockbuster sequel Star Trek: Into Darkness and the Sandra Bullock - led Gravity.
On Thursday, Governor Andrew Cuomo appeared at a news conference with Mayor de Blasio and their respective health commissioners to share
the sobering news that a New York doctor had tested positive for the Ebola virus.
Yet a mouse study reported in May by Mark Kay's lab at the Stanford University School of Medicine delivered
some sobering news about RNAi.
That sobering news came in three talks by paleoseismologists — researchers who literally dig up records of past earthquakes and tsunamis — associated with Nanyang Technological University's Earth Observatory of Singapore.
People who get
this sobering news often face a long, grueling treatment.
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.
Here's
some sobering news as we reach the end of dry January: Most big drinkers couldn't give up booze even if they wanted to.
Meanwhile, after almost being killed by the sweat lodge, Frank wakes up in the emergency room and gets
some sobering news about his declining health.
Just as soon as the state's new test scores were released — and even before, in the case of mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio — reactions started flying about
the sobering news about student achievement in New York.
The «
sobering news» of CPS» financial condition led KIPP to emphasize in its proposal to CPS that «co-location is the right model for our organization.»
District workers removing thousands of books and either donating or destroying them is
sobering news.
Investors who think they can be successful stock pickers are about to get
some sobering news from new academic research.
To those people struggling to pay off debt today, I've got
some sobering news for you: debt is the least of your financial problems.
As
this sobering news was digested, the AVMA Veterinary Workforce Summit was held by invitation in September 2013.
Here's
some sobering news: One in four dogs will develop some type of cancerous tumor.
Now,
some sobering news — which was almost inevitable: It's become more and more difficult to redeem your hard - earned frequent flyer miles.
For small studios with more than one person working a ton of hours to bring their indie vision to life, this is
sobering news.
In an interview a couple of days ago, he summarized
the sobering news — that field work in the last few years has revealed that the reservoir of old carbon is three times larger than older estimates, and other work suggests that it could escape at a faster rate than previously presumed.
There's
some sobering news on two fronts that many climate campaigners, and politicians, have put at the forefront of their climate agendas: passing legislation capping carbon dioxide emissions and demonstrating technology for capturing and burying the main human - generated greenhouse gas.
The sobering news is that change has taken place historically only on decadal time scales.
We just learned that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon saw an amazing 1000 % spike in December, and now
some sobering news about deforestation in Southeast Asia: Mongabay reports than Sumatra and the Indonesian part of Borneo (Kalimantan) lost 9.2 %
This week, we received
the sobering news that the Javan Rhino is officially extinct: The last of its species was killed by poachers for its horn.
A recent Washington Post article reported
some sobering news for parents of infants and babies in the U.S.:[...]
Addressed to law firms and their managing partners, it included
the sobering news that most of the newsletters and articles firms helpfully sent her way were only glanced at or went unread altogether.
This is
sobering news that each and every lawyer needs to absorb — because ultimately it is the insured bar that needs to make changes in their practices to rein in claims numbers and costs.
In what must be
some sobering news for Google, according to this Voicebot report, only 18.4 percent of American smart speaker owners have a Google Home product.
Late last year, a conference call between Nest, the Google - owned smart home company, and the retail team at Amazon resulted in
some sobering news: Amazon would not be carrying any new entries in the Nest catalog.