Sentence examples for needs to be serious from inspiring English sources

"The global society needs to be serious about the problem," said Per Wold-Olsen, Merck's president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

"I know Prodi, he is a very serious man and Italy needs to be serious now if it is to grow economically again".

There needs to be serious ministerial buy-in, for example, which – given our current collection of technologically illiterate tribunes – might be a bit of a stretch.

Like I said, very silly, but when you spend a good portion of your day reading scientific papers not every leisure book needs to be serious.

And as a first step towards a more secure Middle East, free of all weapons of mass destruction, there needs to be serious discussion of regional confidence-building measures.

Of course, the government needs to be serious about this plan; it will need to have the right staff in place, with the ability to implement CAED priorities and manage the system transparently, and it will need to fight any internal corruption.

We need to be serious about that".

It was a classical tie where you needed to be serious and we were serious".

Rich countries, especially the EU and America, need to be serious about freeing farm trade.

"We need to be serious about this, not just be engaged in these kind of silly games".

But if the government is going to hand out billions to Detroit's Sorry Three, there need to be serious conditions.