Sentences with phrase «sobering thoughts as»

It is a sobering thought as we pile back into our sparkly Wraith after lunch and summon the huge, rear - hinged doors.

Not exact matches

The doped players behaved differently than the sober ones, spending as much as two minutes longer each game thinking over options, and they seemed to be making better moves.

After twenty one years sober I think I know myself and can say, proclaim, and think as I please.

So, we do have compassion, and again... as I stated above, if this «way of thinking» or «model» (AA) they «believe» works for them and keeps them sober,... go for it.

Of course, man of our scientific age, brought up, as he thinks, to sober exactness, will call such talk emotional, mere poetry and cheap comfort.

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.

It isn't even about God... what this writer who «sobered up» without God doesn't get is that in AA (which incidentally she, by virtue of writing her article is in direct conflict with one of the Twelve Traditions of AA) it clearly says «as we understood Him» — your Higher Power can be your dog, as long as you realize you aren't running the show... lest we forget that our best «thinking» got us there...

As each year passes, I want to spend more and more time outdoors, and the sobering thought that we need to preserve it becomes more and more real.

Dave Deckard, as even - keeled and sober a Blazers fan as there is, thinks this Portland disaster spells the end of this era of Blazers basketball.

However, as Roma prepare to entertain Barcelona for the return leg in Rome on Tuesday night, it is a sobering thought to reflect that the Catalan side's 4 - 1 win last week came on a night when Barcelona were not even playing especially well.

Alcohol was not forbidden fruit for me as a teen, although drinking and driving was, and I think as a result I approached it better than many of my peers (who would jump in the car and race home from a party to make curfew, whereas I was encouraged to call home and say that I needed to sober up before driving).

As the local election results come in and Ukip's numbers continue to look remarkable, the rest of us should maybe pause for thought and realise that something rather sobering is afoot, as happened in the 2012 county council elections, only more sAs the local election results come in and Ukip's numbers continue to look remarkable, the rest of us should maybe pause for thought and realise that something rather sobering is afoot, as happened in the 2012 county council elections, only more sas happened in the 2012 county council elections, only more so.

That brings me to the morning of December 13, in my accountant's office, when I got the sobering news: I am not, in any way, as solvent as I thought I was.

I think it's important to remember, especially for a good party outfit, that when combining many statement pieces, make sure you keep your colour palette as sober as possible.

Think of each member you'll meet at Sober Dating Site as someone who has the potential to be in your corner, helping you stay on straight and narrow.

So, for all you sober singles and those of you who are perhaps completely straight edge, is there a dating site out there that you can think of that can bring you a service that is as special as ours?

As he tells Dr. Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux, «The Lobster»), Bond never stops to think about what he does, but the film does think about it, creating a sober and intriguing engagement with the character and his legacy that builds upon the concerns of «Skyfall.»

Initially it looked like «Anchorman 2» was going to have life as a Broadway musical (though quite how anyone thought they were going to make a glitzy stage show about the cutthroat rough - and - tumble of television news and the sobering questions of journalistic ethics the original film raised is beyond us), but thankfully sanity prevailed and we get to revisit the Channel Four News team nearly one decade on, as they face the challenges of a new era with hope, integrity and, probably, scotch.

«Florence is very sober about the fact that, just because they're having a moment, it doesn't mean that Laura is ever going to think of her truly as an equal,» Rees said.

As I read the sobering new report on gender bias in teens from HGSE's Making Caring Common (MCC), I realized anew that ways of thinking form early.

There is one sobering thought today, too, from our colleague Eoin Purcell in Dublin, whose new article mentions that there's another side to the joy of things never going out of print... namely that you must compete with absolutely everything, as well.

«I don't think that's completely gone,» he said, but added that now people have woken up to a sobering reality that home prices don't always go up and that putting money down might be in their best interest as a homeowner.

It is a sobering thought to consider that 95 % of aggression in dogs is actually a learned behavior on the dog's part, as the dog learns to deal with the situation as only it knows how.

It is a sobering thought to consider that 95 % of aggression in dogs is actually learned behavior, resulting from the environment in which the dog has learned to survive within, as it learns to deal with the situation as only it knows how.

But to Richard Caldwell's dark sarcasm, let me add a sobering thought: As we're seen, starving populations will not starve quietly and complacently.

A reviewer in the NYT described it as «A protracted exploration of the aesthetic, social and spiritual dimensions of industrialization and globalization... Raises some sigificant and sobering questions about the impact that we, as humans, make on our environment» As Brett Wallach noted, «The landscape is as good as a book to get you thinking.&raquas «A protracted exploration of the aesthetic, social and spiritual dimensions of industrialization and globalization... Raises some sigificant and sobering questions about the impact that we, as humans, make on our environment» As Brett Wallach noted, «The landscape is as good as a book to get you thinking.&raquas humans, make on our environment» As Brett Wallach noted, «The landscape is as good as a book to get you thinking.&raquAs Brett Wallach noted, «The landscape is as good as a book to get you thinking.&raquas good as a book to get you thinking.&raquas a book to get you thinking.»

I think the language of catastrophism, chaos, doom — whatever you like to call it — has actually sobered up, in the UK at least, having peaked about three or four years ago when newspapers such as The Independent ran dramatic front pages on a regular basis, a new umbrella body for activists called Stop Climate Chaos came into existence, Roland Emmerich had the Atlantic Ocean freezing in an instant in The Day After tomorrow, and a leading thinktank lambasted a portion of the British press for indulging in «climate porn».

Clauses such as «subject to home inspection,» «subject to obtaining satisfactory financing,» and «subject to lawyer's approval» provide purchasers — who may have hastily submitted an offer — with an opportunity for sober second thought.

Mentors are critical in motivating you to consider pursing a legal career, in showing you the ropes once you start you career, in providing you with advice, acting as second, sober thought in making career transition decisions and in helping you make critical contacts and build networks.

For example, for the composition of Canada's Parliament, [1] in addition to the House of Commons, the Senate was added as a «chamber of sober second thought,» because, it is said, Canada's founding father and first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, was frequently not sober.

We lack, as Billingsley describes, the sober second thought that these comments may one day come under the microscope if up for an appointment.

After throat - clearing describing the Senate's roles as a legislative chamber of «sober second thought,» and one in which both the regions of Canada and minorities, not well represented in the House of Commons, could have a voice, the substantive part of the Court's opinion begins with a discussion of the nature of the Canadian constitution and constitutional amendment.

Blogging for sober social accountability and also as a place for all my thoughts that have been kick - started back into action now that I am not either anaesthetised come evening time or grappling with a hangover come daytime.