A sobering lesson, after all, was taught in the case of digital audio tape.

For executives with large stock option awards, 1987 was a sobering lesson.

These examples should be sobering lessons to economic engineers.

And hed evidently learned some sobering lessons in the glassworks.

Despite all the sobering lessons learned over the past week, there were few images of civilian casualties or dead American soldiers during yesterday's high.

But he and others agreed that the bloody denouement was a sobering lesson.

For President Bush, there is no more sobering lesson than that of his father.

No, St. John's cannot produce a miracle every night, and that was one sobering lesson learned from this early test.

Youthful excess had taught him a sobering lesson about himself.

For those buyers who had dreamed of quick riches, the change in the market has come as a sobering lesson.