Those should be sobering words for any Democrats tempted by premature triumphalism.
"In many ways, the results should be sobering to renegades who think of extending this to humans.
And he declares a truth that should be sobering to President Obama: "The fact is that we are likely to become more dependent on Islamic oil in the coming decades, not less," he writes, noting that 11 of the top 15 exporters of oil are countries with Muslim majorities.
These findings "should be sobering to scientists, managers, and [fishers]," concludes the panel, which was headed by Richard Deriso of the University of Washington, Seattle, and Terrance Quinn of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
Which should be sobering: there are millions of people, walking among us, looking normal in human-seeming skin, who think that the inheritor of a neo-Nazi political dynasty is great news for them and the ones they at least pretend to love.
However, the data shown in Additional file 1 however should be sobering to those planning or reviewing an experimental protocol for microarray analysis.
When it comes to the leaks, the president should be sobered by an interesting new book, "Fighting for the Press: The Inside Story of the Pentagon Papers and Other Battles".
Despite Nagasu's encouraging finish here, with Carroll as her coach, the Americans should be sobered by what occurred in the women's competition.
First, that the dossier about Iraq's weaponry, published in September 2002 as part of the argument for (at that stage) threatening Saddam Hussein with war, was assembled carefully, under the control of John Scarlett, a senior spy who headed the inter-departmental Joint Intelligence Committee, and that many voices counselled that its tone should be sober and its words moderate.
If you're inviting them to a talk or a lecture, make it clear that they should be sober and respectful.
