Sentence examples for somber discussion from inspiring English sources

During the debate, Mr. Sarkozy responded to questions from one journalist under the rubric "President of the rich?" Though in the style of French television debates, the segment led to a somber discussion of tax levels as a slide full of numbers flashed behind them, rather than platitudes about his bona fides as a regular Frenchman.

After a somber discussion, and with one executive near tears, the farmers voted unanimously to defer $2 million in payments for their January milk so the creamery could keep the doors open, pay employees, calm antsy vendors — and buy time while trying to figure out how to survive.

But injected into somber discussions of liquidity puts, off-balance-sheet entities, cyclically adjusted capital requirements and super-senior collateralized debt obligations have been unexpected doses of dark humor.

WASHINGTON — President Obama delivered an ultimatum to General Motors and Chrysler on Monday, telling them to adopt radical changes in short order or face bankruptcy — a move that came after a series of somber discussions in which he concluded that a controlled bankruptcy might be the best way to reorganize the two ailing auto giants.

Stewart's basic premise can't you guys just be nice?—exaggerated the appetite of a wide audience for somber policy discussion, and skips over the fact that so many people turned to Stewart's own comedy show as their only daily news source because of its subversive, cutting, and often cruel analysis.

— exaggerated the appetite of a wide audience for somber policy discussion, and skips over the fact that so many people turned to Stewart's own comedy show as their only daily news source because of its subversive, cutting, and often cruel analysis.

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A water ski show went on Monday as planned, but people were somber, preoccupied with discussions of how a neighbor child was recovering, how they themselves had narrowly averted injury and how such a peculiar chain of events could have happened at a celebration that had gone off smoothly (aside from a few faintings and rainouts) for 47 years.

But the plans for the trip to the United States were uncertain as the meeting ended early today with both the Americans and Cubans leaving with somber faces and saying the discussions would resume later today.

The discussion began on a somber note as Kristie Reeves-Cavaliero explained how her daughter, Sophia, died in May after being left in a pickup truck rather than dropped off at day care.

Not that all the discussion here has been so somber or speculative.