BMW, a big German carmaker, says the damage caused by the strike will influence the company's future investment plans.That sobering statement came just days after the IMF's anual health-check on the economy.
Before the novel even begins, Balliett offers dictionary definitions of the words "home," "lost" and "time," as well as a brief, sobering statement about the thousands of homeless children in Chicago.
All major political figures have confined themselves, so far, to sober statements offering their sympathies and prayers for the dead and injured.
A sobering final statement.
President Hamid Karzai condemned the video as soon as news of it spread on Wednesday afternoon, and repeated that condemnation Thursday in a sober statement that described his conversation late Wednesday with President Obama in which it said the two leaders "denounced the film and termed it as insulting to Islamic beliefs and values".
There are also tiny errors that make a reader suspicious of Morton's rigor, as when he presents Cruise's notorious joke about eating his future child's placenta as a sober statement of fact, or when he identifies the '80s new-wave group Bow Wow Wow as a "hip-hop band".
Among the strengths that Mr. Brown had shown was a fast and sober statement after botched terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow days after he took over as prime minister in late June; swift attention to devastating floods in the English countryside this summer, and firm stewardship during a foot-and-mouth crisis in the cattle industry.
The statement was sobering.
Americans have been receiving their sobering year-end 401(k) statements in the mail and reading about energy crises and layoffs at companies ranging from DaimlerChrysler to Amazon.com.
The statement is a sobering reminder about the scale of the deficit the country faces and the tough choices which need to be made.
