The WB, after all, is not run by a bunch of teenagers bent on self-expression; it's part of a multibillion-dollar entertainment conglomerate whose programming decisions are based on sober business acumen.
In contrast, books IV VI are based on "sober empirical study".
In this world nations wouldn't take any particular pride in hosting the games, so decisions about whether or not to do so would be based on sober analyses of whom the events would benefit and whom they would harm.
And this estimation is conservative, based on sober economic assumptions and the dug-in tax and spending positions of the two parties, both powerfully abetted by lobbies and special interests which fight for every paragraph of loophole ridden tax code and each line of a grossly bloated budget.
Katon Dawson, a former South Carolina party chairman, said: "The Republican base has sobered up and said: 'I'm not going to do what Washington says or what the editorial pages say.
Hollywood was laid out as a real-estate subdivision in 1887 by Harvey Wilcox, a prohibitionist from Kansas who envisioned a community based on his sober religious principles.
Britishness, he thinks, is not about common blood and culture, about dreaming spires and the changing of the guard, but is based on a sober set of shared values.
It's generally thought to have been launched in 1960 with MGM's highly popular Where the Boys Are, based on a sober, sociological novel by Glendon Swarthout about a quartet of female midwestern students spending their spring break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Moreover, it would ensure that our efforts are based on a sober assessment of their value, rather than unreasonable optimism.
The multiple-realizability argument being criticized by Sober was based on abstract considerations in the context of philosophy of mind.
It's critical to call out Burmese extremists' fears and prejudices for as unfounded, and to counter them with sober responses based on fact and reason.
