Sentence examples for sobering event from inspiring English sources

"After the sobering event of layoffs, dot-com advertisers are thinking more like regular companies".

TUMBLING into a near-frozen creek on a 6-degree day while skiing the backcountry would typically be a sobering event.

The Russian economy was the hardest hit of all members of the Group of 20, and this sobering event led to renewed efforts to integrate with the West in order to advance the modernization of Russia.

For a company that once prided itself on collegiality, last month's annual meeting of Kinko's at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Dallas was a sobering event.

The Australian Grand Prix weekend was a sobering event in many ways, one in which the cracks that all within the sport were well aware of began to become clear in public.

Oakland-born and first-time filmmaker Ryan Coogler graphically recreates the lead-up to a sobering event that unfolds like a Greek tragedy.

With sobering events in world news, Amnesty International is turning to artists to help address human rights violations across the globe.

Davos also says it is shunning Hollywood celebrities, even though they have lent this sober event a dash of sex appeal.

The festival's new director said in May that this year's 69th edition would be a "more sober" event than previous iterations.

Mr. Berlusconi also canceled a huge outdoor rally this weekend to present his program, scaling it down to a sober event in a Milan theater.

This new crop of sober events, however, may not appeal to all teetotalers.