Sentence examples for sobering figures from inspiring English sources

The sobering figures suggesting the loss of 10 million lives a year by 2050 must be taken as a final warning for action.

Officials threw out sobering figures on the scale of the devastation, with the caveat that the numbers were just estimates, sure to rise when the crisis has abated enough to allow an accurate damage assessment.

The latest figures have shown that even the German economy is now experiencing almost zero growth, following other countries, such as France, that already reported sobering figures last week.

The G.N.P. report did have some sobering figures on inflation.

She's more than happy to talk about feminism, and has some sobering figures.

A spin through some of the sobering figures: Out of an operating budget of $79.2 billion, the state spends about $11 billion on wages for its work force of 220,000.

Married with three children, he cut a sober figure in his traditional robes.

But her image as an enigmatic, sober figure in a fun house of buffoons has been crucial to her work, and to her success.

Mr. Silver seldom shows his fun-loving side in the capital, where he cuts a sober figure in a world of backslapping and instant friendships.

Then the New York Times nominated a rather more sober figure, "a 65-year old woman in a Macomb County suburb" who loves the Bush family but worries about her Medicaid bills.

Even such a sober figure as Mitt Romney regularly says things like "We are only inches away from no longer being a free economy," and that this election "could be our last chance".