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Dermot Murnaghan will eschew a black tie in the lead role for Sky News; producers decided he should be "soberly dressed" but a black tie was unwarranted because the ceremony is not a state funeral.
Meanwhile, Mr Obama's Bain offensive seem likely to help the market-loving right continue to belatedly warm to Mr Romney, who now has an excellent opportunity to soberly explain to America the righteousness and relevance of his business experience.
Reprints Related items Festivals that work: Albert’s prideMar 29th 2001Nay, and soberly too:Fifty years ago, the richer people would have done all in their power to encourage the poorer to enjoy themselves by excessive drinking.
Certainly a manifesto drawn up by the likes of George Osborne, the shadow chancellor of the exchequer, and Andy Coulson, the communications chief, would have dwelt more soberly on matters of tax and spend.In some elections voters can hardly be blamed for leaving party manifestos on the shelf.
It was a serious disaster that could interrupt the tumbling for any long period of time.Packed in a tea-chestMr Fraser had seen service too, far more soberly , with the Gordon Highlanders in Africa and the Fourteenth Army in Burma.
THE best thing about being a foreign correspondent is not having to commute to the office every day, attend dreary meetings, dress soberly , and generally get distracted from the nitty-gritty of doing the job.
Dozens, even hundreds, of couples, in off-the-peg white dresses and dark suits, would parade before him, across lurid carpets and through banks of gladioli, to be soberly scattered with confetti by their high-crowned True Father and their equally unsmiling True Mother, Hak Ja Han.
'A hundred per cent.'A recent World Bank study* puts it more soberly : "Indonesia turned oil income into productive investment, whereas Nigerian oil income was either siphoned abroad or used for prestige projects".The oil money came so suddenly, and in such vast quantities, that the government did not know what to do with it.
He made a cantankerous speech at a protest rally in Gujarat, attacking America's cosiness with the unelected leader of Pakistan, and spoke more soberly over a video link to Indian expatriates in Madison Square Garden in New York.
"Jams enable a kind of mass collaboration and problem-solving that has simply never before been possible on a global scale," says Irving Wladawsky-Berger, the company's vice-president of technical strategy and innovation.McKinsey's Mr Bryan soberly points out that we are not all knowledge workers yet.
"Soberly ," he concludes, "after 22 years of fighting for gender equality, I have to acknowledge: the new man seems not to exist.
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The primary grammatical function of "soberly" is as an adverb , modifying verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs to describe the manner in which an action is performed. Ludwig AI confirms its common usage to describe something performed in a serious and calm way.
Expression frequency: Very common
