| Similarly, psychotherapy promotes mental health and serves as a useful reality check. |
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| It ought to be about ordinary people giving the metropolitan political elite an annual reality check. |
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| It was a bit of a reality check for the U.S. credit market, with yields rising across the board. |
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| And at the war's end, when the prisoners came home, there were some amazing reunions but for most it was a bleak reality check. |
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| Both women said they felt strangely invigorated by the reality check of measuring their steps. |
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| What was supposed to be a great night of drinking and dancing actually brought an insulting reality check. |
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| This wreck was the best bad thing that ever happened to me, because it was a reality check. |
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| I think it's going to be a reality check to talk to young people across the way. |
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| It was a humbling experience, and a reality check in my own life and relationships. |
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| Let's hope that those responsible for the proper use of State funds experience a swift reality check in the interim. |
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| We both were controllable and felt we added a comforting reality check to each other until help arrived. |
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| Talking with folks throughout the organization helps provide a reality check, she says. |
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| It's also a wake-up call, a reality check from which you emerge with a reassuring sense of integrity. |
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| Go ahead and let them present their views, but make sure there's a reality check. |
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| It's anything but the simple life for her, because now she's getting a reality check of her own. |
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| Even a nonbinding vote would act as a reality check for supervisory boards. |
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| This was interpreted by most as a reality check, a warning that to play hardball with the contractors could be counterproductive. |
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| Those who thrive on glib pronouncements about the role of renewables should carry out the occasional reality check. |
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| He offered the view, unencumbered by reality check, that prolonged engagement would necessitate the introduction of conscription. |
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| Gibb urged fans to take a reality check as he hit back at criticism following a string of poor results. |
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| I think it's important that it's used as a reality check for everyone so that they don't take their eye off the ball. |
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| Pollster Sol Lebovic from Newspoll, says this is a reality check for Labor. |
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| But let's take a quick reality check and see what increased tuition really means. |
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| This didn't underwhelm me or hurt me because one look at her was enough to prove she lacked a reality check. |
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| Wimbledon's demise is a stark reality check of where soccer is going in a free market. |
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| He will also miss the constant reality check of observing military life first hand. |
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| Honoring Rosa Parks is important, but when you cross over into comparing yourself with her, it's time for a reality check. |
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| But for him, and the other aspirants, the day was a reality check. |
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| For a reality check today, take the state of science, which demands high levels of brainwork and is measured by clear benchmarks of discovery. |
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| But when someone asked whether this Giants team reminded him of the 2007 championship season, Manning audibled to a reality check. |
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| Shakily I splashed some cold water onto my stricken face, wishing the cold liquid to act as a reality check, maybe even wake me up from this painfully real nightmare. |
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| The minister needs a reality check and she needs to apologize to every laid off worker. |
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| For Gord Bacon of Pulse Canada, discussions on product branding served as a reality check. |
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| Identifying financing also provides a reality check during development of the plan. |
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| I would happily take him on a tour of seniors buildings in my community for a reality check. |
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| It can also serve as a reality check based on what is feasible given available resources. |
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| In the reality check, people begin to question why they are doing what they are doing. |
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| These new investigations are a systematic reality check that consumers are getting a fair deal. |
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| This reality check in not intended to encourage conflict between age groups. |
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| Other women found that the transcript served as a reality check to remind them of what they had lived through. |
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| The Save the Children Fund advocacy handbook suggests the first step after completing an action plan is to carry out a reality check. |
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| A reality check will show that journalists are under attack everywhere. |
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| Progressives who hope, in 2014, to regulate their way out of this problem need a reality check. |
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| Talks with Iran over its alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons ran into a reality check in the latest round in Baghdad. |
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| Barbie Latza Nadeau talks to locals and extras and gives the show a reality check. |
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| But more than that, he sees it is as a vehicle for public education and a reality check for developing clear arguments for the role of effective social programs. |
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| This forum provides the opportunity to maintain frank and open discussions, at all levels, and conduct a reality check on where each side is on its commitments. |
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| It seems that a reality check is necessary in many schools in this regard. |
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| Be astounded with this list, provided by the essential blog chronicler of the lobby, Middle East reality check, of all the media and politicians who have taken these trips over the last few years. |
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| Rejection breeds a reality check, and a new target property is identified. |
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| Clearly, there is a missing link in the working methods of the Council, which makes it extremely expedient for the organ to undergo a reality check. |
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| Voice technology has successfully crossed the chasm and passed the reality check so that now major players in many different countries are rolling out this technology and reaping its benefits in productivity and accuracy. |
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| After electoral rapture, the reality check of sleazy politics set in. |
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| I believe that international debate needs a reality check here. |
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| That kid needs a reality check before he fails or drops out. |
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| Be sure to do a reality check on the idea before releasing it. |
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| Klopfer alleged in an interview with RH Reality Check that these anti-abortion groups have doctored his forms. |
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