Sentence examples for sobering impact from inspiring English sources

It's getting harder and harder to fend off the sobering impact of those stories in football.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt probably expected his recent high-profile visit to the isolated dictatorship to have a more sobering impact on online discourse.

This experience and others like it had a profound and sobering impact on me.

Maybe one or two punitive assessments, measured in hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, might have a sobering impact on key individuals at the firm.

My early letters to the Foreign Office recorded the sobering impact on Miami of the aftermath of the worst American recession since the Great Depression.

Still, the soaring price of corn is having a sobering impact on the ethanol industry, which is showing signs of retrenchment after a period of phenomenal growth.

To be sure, these grand-scale problems that arise with technological advances are sobering and have impact on broad national and cultural levels.

In a sobering reminder of the impact of high interest rates, the auto parts industry in the Sao Paulo industrial area announced yesterday that it would be laying off 30,000 workers, of a work force that now totals 80,000.

Then they unveiled the ostensible purpose of their visit: to explain in sobering detail the economic impact to China from an Israeli strike on Iran — an attack Israel has suggested is all but inevitable should the international community fail to stop Iran from assembling a nuclear weapon.

As we discuss a paper that is arguably a cornerstone of modern genetic analysis, it is well worth remembering that this two-part paper was the report of Bridges's Ph.D. thesis work (indeed, we find it sobering to compare the impact of our own theses to that of Bridges's).

The length of the case, as well as its far-reaching and long-lasting impacts, are a sobering reminder that the Sandusky one is a long, long way from over.