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tending to make sober or more serious

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A few numbers gathered by Willamette Family Inc., the nonprofit agency that operates the sobering station and the detox program, tell one compelling part of the story.
Available at 10-1 after a first round win, Sobering Thought now trades at a best of 5-1 with Coral and is just 3-1 with VCbet after storming home by almost seven lengths on the evening in a time of 25.65sec.
The news front the recent Paper Summit in Atlanta was, not surprisingly, sobering. In fact, we heard so much of this news that we should all be as sober as judges.
That's the head The New York Times gave to a sobering article on online magazines' disappointing results--sobering at least to online publishers but reassuring to many print publishers, including marketing consultant Barbara Kaplowitz who alerted us to the article with this comment: "Long live us dinosaurs.
In short, police officers must avoid the carelessness and apathy accompanying a dangerous mindset that says, "It's just a drunk." As an FBI study on officer killings reports, law enforcement officers are murdered with sobering regularity by intoxicated persons.(2)
Coming to think of ourselves as protecting and sustainably managing forest ecosystems is at once sobering and uplifting.
officials announced Thursday that the Tulsa Sobering Center, a jail diversion program designed to offer an alternative for adult men and women detained for public intoxication, will open in May following construction and renovation of the facility.