Sentence examples for sobering forecast from inspiring English sources
He has a very sobering forecast for levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Citigroup, the nation's largest bank, reported a staggering fourth-quarter loss of $9.83 billion on Tuesday and issued a sobering forecast that the housing market and the broader economy still had not bottomed out.
Growth in Africa remains so high that the population there could more than triple in this century, rising from today's one billion to 3.6 billion, the report said — a sobering forecast for a continent already struggling to provide food and water for its people.
The sobering forecast comes as a draft report by American intelligence agencies has cast serious doubt on the ability of the Afghan government to stem the rise in the Taliban's influence there, and as the Bush administration has initiated a major review of its Afghanistan policy.
PARIS — Swiss Re, the insurance giant, said Thursday that it was turning to Warren E. Buffett for a capital infusion, while Deutsche Bank and Banco Santander announced sobering forecasts, reminders that the credit crisis had yet to run its course.
Such sobering forecasts create an incentive for them to build up savings ahead of time and improve their chances of getting a good job when they graduate.The work-experience gap year meets both these requirements, and Mr Griffiths says it is one of the fastest growing gap-year options.
If this plan is supposed to be an alternative to boats in the Mediterranean, it fails.Growing old disgracefullyWith delicious timing this week the commission also published a sobering demographic forecast.
"I wrote a sober forecast then, saying we knew our democracy would be noisy, dirty, corrupted".
Mine is a sober forecast.
For those thinking of buying on the dips, Glickenhaus has a sober forecast: The Dow will still be hovering around 10,000 a decade from now, and is likely to take a trip to 6000 along the way.
Their sober forecasts reflected concerns that economic recovery in Asia remained some way off, despite tentative signs of turnaround in the United States and China.
