Sentence examples for serious reckoning from inspiring English sources

By any serious reckoning, that number was too low.

Haiti's future depends on a serious reckoning with the inheritance of the Duvalier regime.

Both as policy and politics, a serious reckoning for those who gamed the system is a win-win.

There are few places on earth so completely and utterly implicated in our current discontents, or anywhere so due a serious reckoning.

The afterparties that followed the final performances produced some serious reckoning, as theater professionals pondered Broadway's future, as well as their own.

That continuity between the Communist and post-Communist elites helps explain why resistance to a serious reckoning with past crimes has been particularly strong in Romania, where there is still widespread nostalgia for the Communist era.

Mr Clarke's distinctions between "classic rape", date rape and other varieties sounded just awful, not least because they were cast in the breezy tone of a barrister sounding off in the golf club bar, rather than a serious ministerial reckoning with a serious crime.Nonetheless, Mr Clarke was opening up a discussion on sentence tariffs which is a proper part of his job.

There is a general sense that a once-great party has unexpectedly concluded, and darker hints of a serious economic reckoning looming in the near-distance.

This last argument is part of the problem: a public institution that is self-policing is effectively unpoliced, and deflecting the critique by claiming the critique is not a serious form of reckoning.

And that is why some experts believe that what is beginning to look like a worldwide push for wildly interconnected technologies will have more and more serious days of reckoning, for which last week's blackout -- like the grid itself -- is an arrow to the future humanity can expect.

"They can procrastinate as long as they want, but they're going to have a serious day of reckoning next election cycle," said Angela Kelley, vice president for immigration policy and advocacy at the Center for American Progress.