Sentence examples for extremely sobering from inspiring English sources

Graham Stuart, chair of the education select committee, said the results were "extremely sobering" and showed that "we went nowhere" despite massive investment in schools.

"When we saw the totality of it all, it was extremely sobering," said Diana McWilliams, chief executive of the state's behavioral health system.

"The fact that half of the world's 50 million refugees and displaced people are under the age of 18 is extremely sobering," said Olivier Delarue, Lead of UNHCR Innovation.

But for those accustomed to Greer's feminist provocations, "Shakespeare's Wife" will seem extremely sober and restrained.

Burroughs was extremely sober in manner and appearance; his dress typically consisted of a grey three-piece suit, tie, and fedora hat.

Mr. Giuliani's revenue projections, while somewhat less conservative than last year's, are still extremely sober, City Council officials said, estimating, for example, that Wall Street would earn $7.2 billion in profits in the 2002 calendar year, compared with the estimated $19.5 billion in 2000.

Even by Washington standards, the reports have been extremely sober and carefully worded analyses of organizational snafus and potential budget potholes.

A sobering aspect of this otherwise exciting progress is the extremely slow pace of moving these therapies from a 'proof of concept' stage in animals to a fully approved treatment that is available to anyone who needs it.

And sobering.

These are sober achievements for sobering times.

That conclusion is sobering.