Sentence examples for a sobering effect on from inspiring English sources

This has had a sobering effect on blacks.

The brutality apparently had a sobering effect on Barney.

This has a sobering effect on the audience.

Such discussions, the official added, would have a sobering effect on the war-planners.

Last month's terrorist attacks and the mounting evidence of a recession have had a sobering effect on many businesses.

But the gravity of the economic crisis is bound to have a sobering effect on the campaign.

And in such a small core, once that suffering becomes known it has a very sobering effect on the remainder.

You can always count on physicists and engineers to have a sobering effect, which is just what they planned to do at a meeting this week of physicists, engineers, and neuroscientists.

"Seeing people carted off in handcuffs has a sobering effect," said Harvey L. Pitt, a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, who has advised hedge funds on expert networks.

It has a sobering effect".

Still, his road trip through hell has a sobering effect.