Sentences with phrase «sobering realities for»

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 reality for speculative investment.

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It worked for a while, but when I finally finished graduate school (yes, it took that long) I was hit with a sobering reality: the system I once mastered to collect all my gold stars no longer existed.

While he said prices should rise eventually, he is «sober about the current realities of lower prices» for the next few years.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

The Council can only become effective through setbacks and hesitations, for it will often be difficult to know how to carry out ideal concepts in the sober sphere of reality.

The Church for them is not only the sacramental intermediary of grace and the teaching authority for the true statement of the hidden mysteries of God, but also has a pastoral power by which it can contribute quite considerably to determining the concrete action of its members in the tangible and sober reality of everyday life.

However, it is certainly very much to be desired that a sober thinker would for once explain how far this purely logical process, which recalls the grammatical rule that two negatives make an affirmative, and the mathematical rule that two minuses are a plus — how far, I say, this logical process is valid in the world of reality, in the world of qualities; whether after all the qualities are not subject to a different dialectic; whether in this case «transition» does not play a different rôle.

It has been a long year for NASCAR's most popular driver, and as soon as he collapsed onto a couch in the cool of his coach, Little E let out a deep sigh and acknowledged a sobering reality: In his last season with Dale Earnhardt Inc. (DEI), the team that his father founded, he isn't likely to challenge for the Cup.

Robotic planetary exploration began a half century ago with sobering reality checks: our nearest neighbors — the moon, Mars and Venus — were fairly horrible places for life.

But for the majority of postdocs, the most positive effect may well be a sobering dose of reality

Waiting for severe storms to shift the public's opinions on policy changes might be a sobering reality, but Rudman and her colleagues are more optimistic.

From the examples chosen a pattern emerges that requires a period of sober reflection by any minister or civil servant involved in the planning of major technological projects, for far from the comfort of scientific truth underpinning their decisions, the reality is that the degree of uncertainty involved would appear to reduce the process to a sophisticated form of gambling, with awesome consequences awaiting a wrong decision.

Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) released new guidelines for treating gonorrhea that reflect the sobering reality that this sexually transmitted disease is becoming ever more difficult to treat.

There surprisingly weren't any moments when the filmmakers felt they needed to hold back in tracking Marlo's reality, which can be sobering for those who don't have children.

He's now been sober for years and is about to marry Erica Long (Gabrielle Union) in a ceremony that is being planned in detail for a reality television show on Bravo.

The support cast deserves a share of accolades, too, for ensuring that the palpable production, one well grounded in a sobering, inner - city reality, never hits a false note.

Yet the sobering reality is that if children are communicating differently to their parents — who are teachers — what does that mean for those same teachers» students who go home and spread the same message?

The brave new world we face is one whose promise of endless bounty has been replaced by sobering reality: selling books is frigging hard even in the best of times, and these are no longer the best of times for indies.

Veterinarians» loss of their AVMA Group Health Insurance delivered the sobering reality that we need to be ready for the changes occurring in our health insurance system.

Even the soberest reality check does little to undermine my enthusiasm for the Switch, however.

Of course, that statement contains a potential internal inconsistency that presents a sobering reality check for anyone seeking consensus among a vastly different range of parties — whether they are 192 rich and poor countries tussling over a climate treaty or 50 states, with varied levels of dependence on fossil fuels, pondering a climate bill.

Among other things, he offered a sobering reality check in the face of a big, and largely wishful, push for a carbon tax as a budget fix.

To meet the Obama administration's targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $ 7 a gallon.

While these developments are to be celebrated, there remains a sobering reality: they still leave a lot of headroom for China to expand its coal power plant capacity between now and 2030, even though its coal fleet is already more than twice the size of the US coal fleet.

It's a fun way for you to see where your state ranks, AND it highlights a sobering reality: Make reckless decisions on the road, and the consequences could ruin your life.