Unlike other sorts of scientific conference, AIDS conferences attract angry activists as well as sober scientists.
Despite the popular view of Democrats as free-spending inflationists and Republicans as sober fiscal conservatives, study after study showed no meaningful difference in investment returns.
After rebranding themselves as a party that could see beyond the market to social and environmental concerns, the Tories have had to re-rebrand themselves as sober stewards of a ruined economy.
As some sober-minded observers noted, the two sides have slow-danced together before, though more warily.
Vince Camden concentrates on his own thoughts as he walks sober and rested among the drunk and tired.
The real Morse led a sober existence as chairman of Lloyds Bank from 1977 to 1993.
As long as I'm sober and stay clean, there will be opportunities there.
The inclusion of a social gaming element, as well as the rather more sober element of the online metrics remind you that, while this might not be the cheapest fork in the world, there really is every chance it's the happiest.
And there are disturbing aspects to the Louise Woodward case, which trouble some Americans just as much as they bother the more sober of British observers.
It gets -- you know, I think that -- I think everybody approaches the -- I think we all want to and look to the State of the Union as a very serious and sober discussion of the important challenges that lie ahead.
These experiments show that even when people are very drunk, if they are given an incentive (either financial reward or even just social approval) they are perfectly capable of remaining in complete control of their behaviour - of behaving as though they were totally sober.
In Drunk, author Oliver Sickwell shows us how the choices you make while drunk are just as good as the choices you make while sober.
Debt investors are usually sober types, but as the bubble grew, it was increasingly their urges, and not the creditworthiness of homeowners, that determined loan-underwriting standards.
It was agreed Huxtable, who had been banned from driving three months earlier, should drive as he was considered "the most sober", taking Ms Kift's vehicle.
Or, it could be seen as a furious corrective slide marking a more sober view of the over-performing precious metals market.
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Van Gogh translated Gauguin's sober sketch into the muted colours he saw as more typical of Gauguin.
Magistrate Roger Davies, sentencing him, described the defendant as an intelligent man who should have acted in a "more sober and sensible way".
If, as the media warned, the public would reject a list comprised of sober-minded realists, one would have expected that support to drop.
We ride collective transportation such as buses, trains and airlines fairly certain that drivers and pilots are sober, trained and not exhausted from working double shifts.
Employers have also been using the website as a way of checking out job applicants - creating a rash of stories about sober-looking job applicants being caught out by their own frolicking Facebook listings.
The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.
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But the sober message about wind and solar applies to all renewables: All renewables, much as I love them, deliver only a small power per unit area, so if we want renewable facilities to supply power on a scale at all comparable to our consumption, those facilities must be big.
Yet as Europe's immediate response to the Dubai operation makes clear, Europe itself has abandoned the sober-minded pursuit of its own interests, in favor of cowardly, feckless, self-defeating rhetoric.
His analysis, "More Action, Better Service: How to Strengthen the European External Action Service" (PDF here) is phrased diplomatically, as one might expect, but its exposition of the weakness of the EEAS is more devastating for the sober tone in which it is delivered.
But on a sober day, the 39-year-old was surprised when a stranger called her by name as she crossed the street.
For a sober real-world example, take the period just after the indecisive UK general election when, as readers will recall, everyone felt uncertain about who would form the next government and what policies they would follow.
But the key battle could prove to be that between the sober and professorial Mr Monti and Mr Berlusconi, the 76-year-old billionaire media mogul, as they effectively challenge each other for leadership of Italy's centre-right.
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