In such a context the words of the old Swahili homily sound
soberingly apt: when the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
When the two are compared, it becomes
soberingly clear that initial rapidly rising turnover is not an indication that an agile SME will quickly become a world-class business.
A
soberingly large percentage of surnames in Volume XV are Scottish; entries for people whose surnames begin with "Mac" or "Mc" alone account for more than seven percent of the page total.
Soberingly enough, the easy part of the schedule is behind the Oregon men's basketball team now.
Always a difficult number in that it advances the action by an entire century, "Next," is presented in an updated version with new statistics,
soberingly punctuated at midpoint by the Hiroshima bomb.
Tightly plotted and expertly played by a superb ensemble cast (Harris particularly good), given what looks like a prolonged Yankee cowboy presence in Iraq, it's even more
soberingly scary than it is caustically amusing.
But, more
soberingly, the same findings showed that the level is still running at 2.6 times the current 5.5 per cent rate of inflation.
It was a defiant message that Celtic will fight to the finish to keep their title, although
soberingly they remain 10 points behind Rangers with only nine games to play.
The return to fitness of summer signingYerry Mina, who came through abehind-closed-doors game on Thursday, doesn't help his cause either and though there is a school of thought to say he remains the team's best out-and-out defender,
soberingly the club captain may actually find himself fifth in the pecking order at centre-half.
The return to fitness of summer signing Yerry Mina, who came through a behindclosed-doors game on Thursday, does not help his cause either and though there is a school of thought to say he remains the team's best out-and-out defender,
soberingly, the club captain may actually find himself fifth in the pecking order at centre-half.
The small print,
soberingly, will be slightly less romantic.
And, yes, the Washington trip -
soberingly difficult now - looms for Oregon in a couple of weeks.