Sentences with phrase «sobering reminder of»

Mission trips are such a sobering reminder of all the material wealth we are surrounded by.

Assuming it's genuine, it's a sobering reminder of how fragile anonymity is on the internet — one click and the whole thing comes crashing down.

Most people don't think about keeping their home damage proof until they go to compare homeowners insurance rates and are given a sobering reminder of just how much out of pocket they actually spend each year.

The fact that over 90 % of the people who take a shot at trucking aren't around one year later should be a sobering reminder of how well you had better prepare yourself if you want to make it in this industry as a driver.

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:

But the core conclusions still hold, particularly a set of closing points, starting with this sobering reminder of how hard this process is internally:

Along with «Migration» (a photo of a site - specific installation at an Ohio paper mill wherein Nesbitt transposed a Times front onto dripping dilatant silicone), the work is a sobering reminder of how one day's major truth falls by the wayside in an instant.

It's a beautiful, but sobering reminder of how human activity is changing the world for other creatures.

But taken in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, and showing the vast area of the city subsequently plunged into darkness, it is a sobering reminder of the fragility of the human - built in the path of nature.

The 30th anniversary of the 1987 crash offers a sobering reminder of why it's important to have some skepticism about how long this rally can last.

It not only reflects a mainstream recognition of this unfortunate trend, but is also sobering reminder of today's economic reality: homeowners» equity has been halved since 2005, leaving more than 15 million consumers underwater on their mortgages, and more than 6.5 million of those 30 % or more underwater.

It's a sobering reminder of the Italian automaker's place in the automotive hierarchy and if a recent test run on the car done by the Sunday Times» Driving section is any indication, Alfa Romeo still has some work to do with the Giulia.

The large body of positive findings should continue to give us confidence in the market approach to education reform, but the latest NBER study should serve as a sobering reminder of the limits of our ability to engineer outcomes from above.

I feel like Wolf and Nebraska should be viewed back to back so the latter can function as a sobering reminder of who were the people who foot the bill for the lavish parties and hookers and drugs.

It's an astounding portrait of a man wrestling with self - doubt at the worst possible time, and a sobering reminder of what true leadership on the global stage once looked like.

By bringing in perspectives from the media, activists, historians and the refugees themselves, Belzberg presents a view of modern challenges in combating genocide that, while not entirely thorough, is a sobering reminder of the difficulty of those efforts.

For the most part, the personalities seem flawed and comical but Don Cheadle's chillingly psychotic Snoopy Miller, in particular, is a sobering reminder of what's at stake and what some of these career criminals are capable of.

The results were a sobering reminder of the nature of working on cutting edge science.

Once again, we have a sobering reminder of the need for gun reform, mental health awareness, and improved community and police relations in our country.

The knowledge that so many meet these guidelines, and so many are children, is a sobering reminder of how much poverty exists in Erie County.

Stories like this are sobering reminder of the obesity problem in this country.

it's a really sobering reminder of the social implications of the food — especially the trendy food.

Fogarty's portrait of the persecution (there is no other word for it) of the Catholic University biblical scholar Henry Poels is a sobering reminder of how zeal for the Lord can, in the wrong hands, become mere zealotry.

The list could go on, but there is enough here to serve as a sobering reminder of the capacity of religious authorities to think themselves right when in fact they are promulgating what is cruel and unjust.

«This year's Statistics for Mission provide a sobering reminder of the long - term challenge we face.

For those tempted to overestimate the significance of the joint declaration, this book will be a sobering reminder of unfinished Reformation business» simul iustus et peccator» that can not be effectively managed by church officialdom.

And to be sure, the sad Theranos saga is a sobering reminder of how essential a healthy skepticism and due diligence are when it comes to evaluating companies — particularly those that are secretive or excessively cryptic about the technologies they're hawking.

It was a universally sobering reminder of the fleeting passions of partisanship that consume those in elected politics.

Some of the deepest divides within Christiandom regarding war, peace, politics, and Biblical interpretation were brought to light last night, and they served as sober reminder of both my own sin and the challenge facing the modern Church.

This example is a sober reminder of the prominent role testing plays in schools and how what might seem innovative — a one - to - one laptop ratio for students — can actually be another form of supporting testing.

These statistics are a sober reminder of how important it is to have drive safely, and have good auto insurance coverage.

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Bush emerged from a tour of the Yad Vashem memorial calling it a «sobering reminder» that evil must be resisted, and praising victims for not losing their faith.

It lies close enough to us even though they wish to keep away from any such unfortunate ones and to avoid all sober reminders not alone from the careless judgment of the storyteller's art, but also from the church and from the edifying insight that must certainly know that the Holy Scriptures have almost a predilection for the halt and the lame, the blind and the lepers.

What he learned in his run surprised and sobered him, and was a good reminder of exactly what it means to be salt in light in divided country.

Scientific instruments showed that the gas had reached an average daily level above 400 parts per million — just an odometer moment in one sense, but also a sobering reminder that decades of efforts to bring human - produced emissions under control are faltering....)

For thousands of law enforcement officers who gathered on Fort Drum for Davis's funeral this afternoon, it was a sobering reminder: nearly any officer could have been on that call.

The shifting coastline is a sobering reminder that Greenland's ice sheet is changing, as well, in ways that could have dramatic consequences throughout the rest of the world.

Some people think that these continual reminders about how important it is to get rid of excess pounds will keep us motivated to stay on a diet or put in our daily gym time, but the reality is sobering.

After listening to eco-warrior Paul Hawken share how we can affect climate change; actor, activist, and best - seller Hill Harper make an important statement about political divisiveness; best - seller Kate Fagan discuss suicide in athletes; and Lisa Merkle give a sobering reminder that yogis get cancer too in the first studio session of the day, I was ready to process all that I'd taken in — and, of course, refuel my body for the afternoon.

This fact based story from the mid 50s American penal system is a sobering and dramatic reminder of how many states treated mentally ill patients, criminal or otherwise

It's a sobering reminder that we've stepped out of the satirical campus of Winchester and back into the real world where none of this stuff is funny.

A level exam remarks took up to 22 days last year, figures released by Ofqual show — a sobering reminder for nervous candidates ahead of this week's results.

When you consider this study, which found that the incidence of teen intercourse tends to be highest on Friday and Saturday nights during the spring season, it's a sobering reminder that prom attendees should be taking all the necessary precautions to prevent pregnancy.

This is a sobering reminder for all of us, and something I will keep in mind when I explore this part of the Philippines.

More illuminating figuration could be found elsewhere, where 60 year - old Los Angeles painter Henry Taylor was the breakout artist of the Whitney show; his portrayal of an unarmed Philando Castille — shot and bleeding in his car — was both humane and sobering, a reminder of how little has changed since Till's death in the summer of 1955.

At a time of declining condom use among gay men in the United States, with a consequent uptick in new HIV transmissions, the performance served as a sobering reminder that AIDS, while no longer a death sentence in the U.S., is still among us.

What's needed is a sobering reminder that forces all of civilization to look at the coming dystopia we made ourselves and ask, «Okay, what's next?

The prospect of having the DRECP reopened is a sobering reminder that the work of environmental conservation is never done, Frazier Haney, director of land conservation at the Mojave Desert Land Trust, told Earther.

The National Law Journal begins this week's profile of the 50 most influential minority lawyers in the United States with this sobering reminder: Minority lawyers make up just 5.4 percent of partners at U.S. law firms.

But it is a sobering reminder that an «add social scientists and stir» solution to the problem of integrating new fields into law is unlikely to, by itself, yield the desired results.