Sentences with phrase «sobering reading»

"Sobering reading" means that the information or text you are reading is serious, thought-provoking, and may make you feel concerned or worried. Full definition
Makes for sobering reading for Cons and some source of solace for Lib Dems.
Even the summary of those risk factors on page 5 of the form makes sobering reading for anyone considering buying a chunk of the social network.
The often humane hopes that drew some Americans toward communism would make sobering reading if related to recognizably secular goals today.
Sobering reading just before this summer's Olympic Games.
Finally, if you're looking for some excellent but sobering reading on loot boxes, Kotaku's Heather Alexandra recently wrote this essay, where she unpacks how games helped her discovering a dormant gambling addiction.
14th in the La Liga table, only 4 points and the same number of places from the relegation zone, not having won a Liga game for three months, their biggest defeat in any competition for twenty odd years less than a week ago; the figures make sobering reading for any Valencia fan.
Victoria Taylor, Senior dietician at the British Heart Foundation, which part - funded the study, said: «This powerful study may make sobering reading for countries that have set their recommendations at higher levels than the UK, but this does seem to broadly reinforce government guidelines for the UK.
It's a sobering read — and, I believe, a must - read.
by Mrs. Lee R. Steiner is sobering reading for religious leaders who know that people ought to take their troubles to God through the ministry of the churches.
These books, then, are sobering reading for Protestants.
This report, from the National Education Policy Center at University of Colorado, Boulder, makes sobering reading.
For those wishing to compare the final months of the Brown government with another Labour government, Bernard Donoughue's Downing Street Diary: With James Callaghan in No. 10 (Pimlico # 16.99) makes for sobering reading.
«The National Audit Office report on reducing alcohol harm makes sobering reading.
This report from Medecins Sans Frontieres makes for grim and sober reading: it is clear that the situation facing vulnerable asylum seekers on Lesbos is increasingly precarious, and that urgent action is needed.
The Centre for Cities audit of city performance in the ten years to 2013 makes sobering reading.
Recent reports of the United Kingdom's alarming policy of citizenship - stripping makes for sober reading.
5.30 pm Iain Murray on CentreRight picks out the highlights of the sobering reading that is the IFS's latest report on the scale of the UK's fiscal problems
The Michael Ashcroft survey, which will make sobering reading for those Tory MPs who want to replace Cameron before the next election, shows that even Ed Miliband is considered a better potential prime minister than Johnson.
With this in mind, the Initial Teacher Training (ITT) figures for 2016 to 2017 make for a sobering read.
It's a sobering read for anyone who thinks they're on top of their game:
It says the responses make «for shocking and sobering reading» and demonstrate the scale of the «workload crisis» in schools.
«Today's ITT census figures make for sobering reading, with only two out of the 18 postgraduate secondary routes reaching their targets, in PE and History.
The Graveyard of a Lost Year of Pennsylvania Education, a recent analysis from the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, is a sobering read that details the consequences students have suffered as a result of the legislature's continued refusal to adequately fund our schools.
This was sobering reading.
This while being quite entertaining, was a sobering read as a Christian.
Amherst Securities, whose mortgage research is well respected, published a new article on Monday which gives a sobering reading of the prospects for the housing market.
Nintendo has revealed their latest sales data for the period between April - December 2013, and as they suspected, it makes for a sobering read.
But a sober reading of the literature put out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) does not support the alarmist message or the claim that immediate and drastic action is needed to mitigate climate change.
The IPCC report makes for sobering reading.
Information provided by the Association of British Insurers makes for some sobering reading and suggests that the topic will become even more prevalent in the years ahead:
This fortnight has seen the publication of two reports into the status of Indigenous Australians, both of which make sobering reading.
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