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There was one sobering moment when we came to a trampled clearing where stalks and weeds were flattened and the sandy soil was stained with a mess of dried blood, we fell silent and strode on without reference
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“I’m like a bad penny,” he grinned, but it was a sobering kind of smile as the two of them remembered the lives that had been lost
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The number of predictions about future events contained within the Bible and the fact that we find that all events that have occurred in our past, came true with 100% accuracy, not failing once in accuracy or timing, should leave one with sobering thoughts about the events predicted for our future
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It was sobering and frightening to think that losing a person could unhinge someone to that extent so that on reflection I felt only sorrow and compassion for the woman
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” This had the effect of sobering us up knowing that we would be heading back to France in three days and then Tommy said
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And further in regard to the poor, there is this sobering thought
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It was a sobering
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There’s something far more sobering
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“I was rather hoping it would have been for an occasion a little less sobering than this,” she
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A more sobering analysis of this Huxlian scenario may suggest consequences that have not been properly considered
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It was sobering to look back and see where my life had been just a year prior, but at the same time, I was thankful
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The doctor shook Ethan’s hand and looked him in the eye with a sobering, stone-hard gaze
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This is a sobering thought that should compel us to share the Gospel with everyone
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He was sobering up from the weed; it was becoming too real for him to deal with
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Theodore Dalrymple, writing from his experience as a psychiatrist in a British prison, offers this sobering thought: “Men commit evil within the scope available to them
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At the unexpected news, Mom opened her eyes, almost sobering up from the surprise
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With a sobering expression, Dr
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was a sobering thought
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Consider this an intervention! A sobering
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The whole thing has a very sobering effect, and I find myself
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Yigal, sobering a little at the question ventured, “We couldn’t be sure who was in the encampment when we saw it at first light
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Yigal, sobering a little at the question ventured, “We couldn't be sure who was in the
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Suddenly, her body shivered, sobering her from her delirium
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He was also not bullshitting about sobering me up, which he
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experience, is a sobering fact to face
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my life – which was a sobering thought
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agents they had just saved was a very assuring but sobering thought
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Seeing her like that was a sobering
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This turbulent ending of the third public preaching tour had a sobering effect upon all of Jesus' followers
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The sobering experience reminded the man of the dead dogs at the shack and he sure didn‘t want Joe Billie finding those beauties
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But the truth is far stranger and more sobering than any fiction
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her it would soon be all right, while he came to the sobering fact that a lot of
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he came to the sobering realization this wasn't apparently their means of
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The fire at the hawker’s centre was a sobering reminder to us that
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The accident sent a sobering thought to all of us that crossing with
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It was a sobering sight that made us realise how fortunate we in
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The sight was sobering
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This very sobering scripture tells us that only a “few” will enter in at the strait gate
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the same scent of death had hung in the air, and to Rude it was a sobering experience
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” The sobering words of the radiolo-
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The sense of danger was a very sobering one, even against whatever trickery he was using
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It was the getting caught, and seeing the pain that I caused others, and falling down just to get back up so I could fall down again that brought my life to a place that I had to take a long sobering look at myself, be ashamed, repent (change my mind), so my life could be led by God without interference from me
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Not a sobering notion, he mused
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Molly was sobering up
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Vinny could feel himself sobering up as he made his way to
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sobering up faster than a crew pit working on a race car
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It was however a slightly sobering thought that we might actually be risking life and limbs (whose limbs we weren't sure) in testing out are belief- especially as once we entered Iran it would be well nigh impossible to communicate with the outside world - mobiles, the internet, email, facebook being all things of the future - even international dialing was almost impossible unless in a large town - and we intended to steer clear of those
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It was an extremely sobering lesson
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They stood well back from the group, but their presence had a sobering effect
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There'll be a day when you will keep this appointment, and you'll stand before the judgement seat of Christ; and what will be on view is how you've run your life - that's a very sobering thought
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permanent damage but that was a sobering moment for all playing that day
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The image was sobering, and pierced right through him
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When asked how it felt to be sitting on top of the rocket about to launch, it is claimed one of them said “it’s a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realise that one’s safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract
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These sobering numbers give solid proof to the fact that the strategies and techniques
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It was a sobering thought
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The thought was sobering
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Unks comment about home abruptly ends this surreal moment with a sobering though
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may not have made it through the surgery and with that sobering fact Joe could not help
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part will return to us – it is sobering to read that we’ll be judged
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while hopping across the road, is a sobering sight
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Sobering, I sat up, pulling the sheet around me
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Horne shot a sobering look at Barnes, who had already guessed the worst
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But though her childhood had been spent among these objects, which were esteemed at the Palace because falling just short at the last moment of quite sweetness and quite niceness they discouraged sinful gorging, they had none of their ancient sobering effect on her there in Milan
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She saw with the piercing eye of a relation--that eye from which hardly anything can ever be hidden--that something had happened and that the something was sobering and unpleasant
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The sobering thought had focused him and it had been
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Something about her demeanor has a sobering
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From what I know of evolution we are the next step up the ladder but I have some sobering news for you, we skipped a rung in that ladder
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It was sobering thought
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Our Lord spoke these sobering words to us, as found in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 24
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This TRUTH should be sobering for you
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’ At that moment Nadia appeared, that beautiful, singular t-shirt of hers still pointing her out, a sobering vision, she shuffled through the sunflower seeds head down, the wisps of her fringe eclipsing her eyes
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It is sobering to realize that the United States of America, today a bastion of liberty and justice, was so backward in its thinking less than a century ago
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I decided against it and put them in my shorts pocket, just in case I needed two cents between now and the Olallie Lake ranger station, which was still a sobering hundred miles away
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Given that this mission was stretching the plane’s range to the limit, it was sobering news
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If so, however, he was about to find himself face-to-face with two ironclads, and that was a sobering reflection
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The morning that followed the fateful interview with Dounia and her mother brought sobering influences to bear on Pyotr Petrovitch
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, for his part, was sobering up
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By the time it said, "The Baltic, now," the laugh which had been running through the audience became a general shout, and but for the sobering effects of party and that great public cause which the entanglement of things had identified with "Brooke of Tipton," the laugh might have caught his committee
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So this was how things were with him, so doomed was he, so much he had lost his way and was forsaken by all knowledge, that he had been able to seek death, that this wish, this wish of a child, had been able to grow in him: to find rest by annihilating his body! What all agony of these recent times, all sobering realizations, all desperation had not brought about, this was brought on by this moment, when the Om entered his consciousness: he became aware of himself in his misery and in his error
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Can the Investor Identify Them? But our natural enthusiasm for such excellent records is tempered somewhat by a sobering consideration
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She had some sobering and scary material up there on the podium
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That for all the twentieth century’s technology, it was still faced with disastrous famine is a sobering thought
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That for most of the world’s population, dictatorship, not democracy, was the norm for most of the twentieth century is a sobering thought
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” In a sobering 2009 study released by Morningstar, in tracking over 4,300 actively managed mutual funds, it was found that 49% of the managers owned no shares in the fund they manage
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This was a blessing, bright, vivid, and exhilarating;—not like the ponderous gift of gold: rich and welcome enough in its way, but sobering from its weight
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One of their sobering conclusions is that by 2050 global crop yields could be just half of 2000 levels, which would present a massive problem if, as expected, the global population expands by 50 percent over the same time frame
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The early morning everywhere, including Petersburg, has a sobering effect on a man's nature
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This process takes place in the following manner: the worst elements of society, having seized the power and being in possession of it, under the influence of the sobering quality which always accompanies it, become less and less cruel and less able to make use of the cruel forms of violence, and, in consequence of this, give place to others, in whom again goes on the process of softening and, so to speak, unconscious Christianization
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The worse elements of society, gaining possession of power, under the sobering influence which always accompanies power, grow less and less cruel, and become incapable of using cruel forms of violence
