The long wasted years of prison life have a sobering effect on former criminal allegiances.

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The numbers being reported today are good news for Google, but for everyone else they will have a sobering effect.

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When managers know that they may have to call on the capital markets to finance bids or fend them off it can have a sobering effect on their behaviour.

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This possibility, pointed out by the Reform and Conservative rabbinical delegation, appears to have had a sobering effect on even the most ultra of the ultra-Orthodox Israeli politicians.

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The result of the exercise was sobering: the series of attacks against civilian and military networks had a paralyzing effect on American command and control at the highest levels of leadership.

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It is even more sobering to realize that obesity is estimated to show a lag time of about 25 years before its total effect on premature death and disease is seen.

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