Sentences with phrase «first alcoholic»

Coca Cola launches its first alcoholic drink breaking a 130 - year - old tradition... but there's a catch.

Coca Cola launches its first alcoholic drink breaking a 130 - year - old tradition... but there's a bit of a catch.

* Due to state and local laws, the first alcoholic beverage is complimentary, and up to two additional drinks may be purchased at $ 0.75 each.

But if the aim is to begin the conversation before they're offered a first alcoholic beverage, the lesson must be geared to appeal to a young child.

Research shows that the earlier the age at which youth take their first alcoholic drink, the greater the risk of developing alcohol problems.

The Alcohol and Beverage Federation of Ireland (ABFI), which represents alcohol drinks manufacturers and suppliers in Ireland, has welcomed findings in a report just published which confirms that young people are consuming less alcohol and having their first alcoholic drink at a later stage.

I love Kahlua and it may or may not have been one of my first alcoholic beverages when I was not of legal age.

The first alcoholic to be sponsored by a congregation had four slips in that many years, but since then has had some eight years of complete sobriety.

Coca - Cola is launching the first alcoholic drink in its history with a canned liquor product in Japan.

I believe the greatest positive event of the twentieth century occurred in Akron, Ohio... when Bill W. and Dr. Bob convened the first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.

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Not exact matches

Roughly a year ago, Sam Adams brewer Boston Beer (sam) debuted the company's first hard seltzer under a brand called Truly Spiked & Sparkling, finding inspiration from the increased sales of carbonated bottled waters and broader interest in low - calorie alcoholic beverages.

Rum maker Bacardi has dipped into the U.S. bourbon market for the first time with the acquisition of Angel's Envy, getting a sliver of a red - hot segment of the alcoholic beverage market.

Canopy's bought deal with BMO is the second time that the cannabis company has managed to blaze a new trail in the industry: U.S. alcoholic beverage giant Constellation Brands Inc. purchased a nearly 10 per cent stake in Canopy last fall, the first time a major out - of - market player bought into the pot business.

Whenever a discussion of alcohol comes up among members of my congregation, and someone mentions the story about Jesus turning water into wine for his first public miracle, one point is inevitably made: that the wine back then was watered down so much it had little or no alcoholic content, making it barely more than grape juice.

Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.

Perhaps he oversimplifies the idea of human will: the «Big Book» of AA indicts the alcoholic as «an extreme example of self - will run riot,» the first requirement for recovery being that he becomes «convinced that any life run on self - will can hardly be a success.»

In his book Not God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous, Ernest Kurtz crystallizes that «the fundamental and first message of Alcoholics Anonymous to its members is that they are not infinite, not absolute, not God.»

Closely related is the question as to whether AA will continue to exist, or will meet the fate of movements such as the Washingtonians, the first organized attempt by alcoholics to help alcoholics on a large scale.

The first of these was published by Harper & Brothers, 1953; the second by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1967.

First, he accepted the fact that he is an alcoholic.

The word «moral» is a stumbling - block for him at first until Harry explains that it simply means those feelings and actions, past and present, which tend to make an alcoholic drink.

An experienced pastoral counselor of alcoholics states: «Ordinarily one must see an alcoholic three or four times a week for the first few weeks, and then a couple of times a week for a month or two more, and then once a week for a considerable length of time.»

How to understand the alcoholic and what can be done for him rank first and second in the list of problems which prove most puzzling [to religious leaders].

These alcoholics started the first group in St. Louis.

According to Psychology Today, citing an eight - year NIH study, about two of every three alcoholics and addicts relapse within the first year of recovery.

Subsumed under this goal are four operational objectives which may be seen as overlapping stages of treatment: Helping the alcoholic (a) to accept the fact that his drinking is a problem with which he needs help; (b) to obtain, medical treatment; (c) to interrupt the addictive cycle and keep it interrupted by learning to avoid the first drink; (d) to achieve a re-synthesis of his life without alcohol.

Group singing is of first importance in preparing the alcoholic for conversion.

A unique experiment in mass therapy for alcoholics was tried in New York just before the First World War.

The next morning, with another friend, I attended my first meeting with other alcoholics and began recovering, one day at a time.

Looking more closely at the first of these categories, it is well for the clergyman to remember that many alcoholics are in serious physical condition by the time they are ready to accept help.

It is noteworthy that when the Yale Plan Clinic for alcoholics was first organized, it found it necessary to provide beds for some of its patients.

More significant than the mere number is the fact that the minister, so the survey showed, is often the first person seen for help, outside the family of the alcoholic.

About two years ago, and for the first time, the federal government through the National Institutes of Health set up a special fund concerned with the care and treatment of alcoholic persons.

A highlight for Campe was the Sunday morning he saw an unusual lineup of addicts and alcoholics sitting in the first row.

He makes two points: first, the raw alcohol intake from a communion cup or chalice is so very small as to be harmless; second, in the communion service the alcohol — rather than being destructive to the alcoholic — serves a positive and even redeeming purpose.

Their group — the first actual group in and of Alcoholics Anonymous — was the «self - styled Alcoholic Group of Akron, Ohio.»

While we can not specifically attribute the cover draft to Bill Wilson himself, one of the early proposed covers for the First Edition of Alcoholics Anonymous touted AA.

The first group did in fact have its share of alcoholics who wandered by; but the «real» alcoholics who «really tried» (as Bill Wilson described them) were a sturdy band of «last gasp» alcoholics who had stayed sober for about two years since A.A.'s founding days of 1935.

We shared a podium together at the first International Conference of Alcoholics Victorious.

The First Edition of Alcoholics Anonymous Frequently Discusses God.

Many do not comprehend that the alcoholic is a very sick person (Foreword to First Edition of the Alcoholics Anonymous quoted at page xiii of the new 4th edition).

AA is not a hindrance, it does not compliment matters, and it certainly is not an escape, since the first thing it does is make the alcoholic face his / her problems and resolve to do something about them.

There may be extensive arguments over precisely what constitutes a cure in many areas of mental and emotional breakdown, but with an alcoholic or drug addict the first measure is complete abstinence from alcohol or drugs.

At first the temperance movement in America was purely a voluntary society that aimed at temperate use of milder alcoholic beverages.

First, two - thirds of the congregation already know her son is an alcoholic.

I would suspect that the majority of alcoholics, at the point of their first contact with clergymen, are still resisting to a considerable degree.

If the alcoholic has come under third - party pressure, the counselor's first job is to get rid of the third party.

If, as the first interview progresses, the counselor finds that he is not getting clear answers to questions of motivation such as these, it is appropriate to ask enough of them to gain a picture of the alcoholic's reason for coming and the help he expects.