Sentence examples for served a reality from inspiring English sources

With the release of new federal data, Rhee, whose claim to fame was sweeping out teachers and staff as chancellor of public schools in the District of Columbia, has been served a reality check.

The band drew standing ovations from Kiss's audiences, but the months that followed served as a reality check.

For those of us who witnessed some of the snapping — Ted Koppel shutting down the director of FEMA on "Nightline," Anderson Cooper giving hell to the Louisiana senator Mary Landrieu on CNN — this passion served as a reality check and a chance for us to vent our own anger and anguish at the way things were being handled by all levels of government.

Luckily, she didn't lose her job, but it served as a reality check.

Mr. Somerstein's photographs of these people don't always make for high visual impact, but they do serve as a reality check on a history that in "Selma" becomes a seductively shot and charismatically cast docu-opera.

The attack in Yemen serves as a reality check.

We hope the settlements will also serve as a reality check for these companies.

Comparisons can also serve as a reality check, particularly when speaking about money.

Mattis's remarks should serve as a reality check to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

By inputting the setup of a given scene and then physically simulating it forward in time, Bullet serves as a reality check against Galileo's hypotheses.

Here is a quick true-false test that will serve as a reality check on entrepreneurship ecosystems, and on the connection between entrepreneurship and development more generally.