Sentences with phrase «sobering reality»

Still, you'd think that sober reality alone would be enough to shape up all that «bad» behavior.

This is an unflinching look that touches upon some of the more sobering realities of nature, so please use discretion before sharing this book with kids.

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.

The implications for the future are widespread, but one of the more sobering realities for the legal community is that tomorrow's workforce in our industry will be shaped by people for whom revolutionary technology such as Artificial Intelligence and Wearables will just be part of everyday life.

I think there are certain sobering realities which the numbers tend towards, that we have to get to grips with.

A more sober reality, though, is that whatever slight impact humans might have on the climate, it is too small to measure — a point made in a study just published by Swiss researchers in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews (November 2005).

At the International AIDS Conference held in Durban, South Africa, last week sobering realities confronted the push to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, a goal set by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS).

What could be more 2017 than a film that does both simultaneously, letting sobering reality encroach on magic, or maybe vice versa?

Michael Cera delivers a slyly arrogant performance as a swaggering actor who may or may not be based on Maguire; far more compelling are regulars played by Bill Camp, Brian d'Arcy James and Chris O'Dowd, who personify the most sobering realities of the addiction that Molly exploits just as surely as if she were shooting them up every night.

A study on American homelessness in the shadow of Disney World with stylistic inspiration from The Little Rascals, the film is balanced perfectly between sober reality and optimistic spirit.

The location: Chattanooga, TN The car: Passat The sticker price: $ 20,000 (2012) The investment: $ 1 billion The incentives: $ 557.4 million Annual capacity: 150,000 vehicles Ambitious goal: 800,000 brand sales Sobering reality: 256,830 sales in 2010 Employment effect: 85,000 + job applications

The location: New Stanton, PA The car: Rabbit / Golf The sticker price: $ 4220 (1978) The investment: $ 250 million The incentives: $ 100 million Annual capacity: 200,000 vehicles Ambitious goal: 5 percent market share Sobering reality: 3 percent peak in 1980 Employment effect: 2500 laid off at closing

Pretty sobering reality but can be done!

This was a sobering reality.

The sobering reality is that cash - flow management plays a critical role in the sustainability of any business.

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.

According to the research team the findings offer a sobering reality check: «some normally functioning people may never acquire expert performance in certain domains, regardless of the amount of deliberate practice they accumulate.»

President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have spent much of the past year trying to connect a giddy stock market rally with their economic agenda, but its precipitous plunge in the past five days has delivered a sobering reality: What goes up can come back down - quickly and with little...

We are nearly two years into the post-Cold War era — an era as yet without a name — and we have awakened to the sobering reality that democracy is easier to desire than it is to sustain.

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.

The fact of evil is, therefore, a sobering reality which God can mitigate but not eradicate, but neither is its presence God's will or responsibility.

The sobering reality is our positions can be taken away and the expression of our calling can drastically change.

Instead, we use the sober reality of sin to point out the sins of others and decry how ill the world has fallen.

It is a sad revelation in the futbol landscape when I find myself resigned to the sobering reality that Tottenham are simply a better, more talented futbol club at the moment.

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.

Observing her friends who coupled up — monogamously — as she did, there's a sober reality:

Here's a sobering reality: Research suggests that children who play sports eat more junk food than children who don't play sports.

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Here at Beyond Breakfast we know that summer vacation means a lot of things — free time, rest and relaxation, playing outside — but behind the summer fun lurks a sobering reality: hunger.

But the sobering reality — acknowledged by Cuomo and several other officials in between promises and platitudes — is that little will be resolved without action by Congress or the Obama administration.

Republicans are waking up Wednesday morning with victories to celebrate but sobering realities to ponder.

They don't mean to sound ungrateful, but... New York public college students who would stand to gain from the nation's most ambitious free - tuition proposal put forward by Cuomo are quick to point out a sobering reality from their own meager finances: Free tuition doesn't mean free college.

Camille Seaman (above) captures the beauty of polar environments, and the sobering reality of climate change, in her photographs.

That's the sobering reality uncovered by a New Scientist investigation into the bioterror risks posed by the booming business of gene synthesis.

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.

Study leader Hamilton Moses III, M.D., an adjunct professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and former chief physician of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, says the paper outlines the «sobering reality» of the U.S. health care system in 2013 — one that is on an unsustainable path that needs righting, a task that seems ever bleaker in the current climate.

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.

The application has generally received positive feedback from negotiators, but Sawin acknowledges the sobering reality that some delegates are less interested in detailed climate projections than in the next election in their home country.

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The script exists more in a tonal dead zone, where the broad material and the sobering reality of the situation cancel each other out, leaving a tuneless movie without the direct perspective it needs to succeed.

This is the same person who wrote Between the World and Me — a book about the sobering reality of «progress» in the United States being achieved over mounds of black bodies — writing a comic about a black superhero called Black Panther.

One sequence juxtaposes the visual embodiment of Thanos» worldview, via a small child balancing a knife on her palm (in the foreground) and the harsh and sobering reality of said idea in practice, which comes from a line of people getting massacred (in the background).

Through the horse carriage controversy, Haverstick educates the audiences about the sobering reality of how influential money is in today's politics.

However, the research has also documented the sobering reality that children most in need of the nation's best schools are the least likely to attend them.