Sentences with phrase «sobering reading for»

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.

Makes for sobering reading for Cons and some source of solace for Lib Dems.

These books, then, are sobering reading for Protestants.

It's a sobering read for anyone who thinks they're on top of their game:

The findings will make sober reading for global political leaders, who will gather in Paris next week for the start of the United Nations climate conference, known as COP21.

Not exact matches

Our book is meant t be suggestive only LOL God luck I have feeling AA will weather the hate as it has the last 75 + years and continue to reach out to those so desperately in need of sobriety for free LOL If you read this and want to get sober please try AA if it doesn't work for you find something that does.

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 readiFor 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 readifor 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.

Somehow I get the feeling that a lot fewer people read what we publish than we'd like to think... a sobering thought for any professional communicator.

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.

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?

But, for those in recovery or committed to sober... (read more)

I admire Carrey for taking on a grim and sobering project made in Krakow, Poland, that requires a range he would never be asked to show in any American sitcom, but Dark Crimes is so lurid, irrelevant and unwatchable it makes you wonder if he ever read the script.

Over at Awards Daily, Sasha Stone has taken it upon herself to whittle down the Best Picture race to a brisk 11 - title list, and it makes for sobering reading: «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» «The Dark Knight» «Doubt» «Frost / Nixon» «Gran Torino» «Milk» «Rachel Getting Married» «The Reader» «Revolutionary Road» «Slumdog Millionaire» «The Wrestler» I -LSB-...]

With this in mind, the Initial Teacher Training (ITT) figures for 2016 to 2017 make for a sobering read.

A common assumption inside the school - reform movement, one often repeated in the wake of America's sobering performance in the recent Program for International Student Assessment exam — the U.S. ranked 17th in reading and 23rd in science — is that our nation's public - school teachers tend not to be high achievers themselves.

When ENR reads about people like Skyline High's Anisa Mughal, he is reminded of a quote (slightly altered to fit ENR's circumstances) from Tom Lehrer: «It is a sobering thought to consider that by the time Mozart got to be my age, he had been dead for 16 years.»

Maybe it was just the pure vicarious thrill of «discovering the hard facts of the writer's trade,» reading of the glances of «cold disdain» thrown down upon Lucien as he walks in his cheap frock coat and out - of - fashion «Nankeen trousers» amidst the beau monde; or Lucien greeting the sobering facts of the mercantile chicanery of publishers, for whom «books were like cotton bonnets to haberdashers, a commodity to be bought cheap and sold dear.»

It's an immediately pertinent read for our colleagues on the UK side, a sobering study for those of us outside the British markets.

For me, it was a very sobering post to read.

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.

Read more: The Art Market: Miami sobers up for business [Financial Times] Crowds Flock To Art Basel Miami, But Buyers Are Cautious [Forbes] The art week that was: when life and art became one [Miami Herald]

Further reading For a sobering reminder of just how normal massive flooding is along the Mississippi and its delta, explore the studies linked in another post by Richards at the L.S.U. law school:

Of course, in order for bioremedial technologies such as this to move forward, the dichotomy between organic and conventional agriculture will have to be collapsed, a sober view of organic agriculture will have to be adopted, and we'll have to read the banana leaves with greater skepticism.

The IPCC report makes for sobering reading.

It is a bit sobering to read the RSS for Marketers note and find that the principal reason in the author's mind for promoting RSS readers is to avoid spam filters.

As we reported in a recent Business of Law Blog post, among the many revelations found in the latest report is this sobering fact: When it comes to engaging outside counsel for significant... Read More»