Sentences with phrase «getting sober from»

Having religion as a basis to getting sober from an addiction is like having religion as a basis to commit terrorist acts.

Not exact matches

That is her journey this part I cite comes from step two perhaps someday she will be able to get to step 3 or at least stay sober trying:)
Several years removed from getting a master's degree in playwriting from Yale, I had been in and out of detoxes and rehabs, ERs, sobering - up stations and flophouses.
From Adam: As you were (are) getting sober, do you find your addiction moving elsewhere?
I'd like to point out that the writer is not unique, and as member of AA for over 20 years, I have known people to get sober in AA from every religion, denomination as well as other atheists, agnostics or non-believers.
It would seem to be preferable to say that: while the crowd clamors and shouts and triumphs and celebrates; while one individual after another hastens to the place of tumult, where it is good to be if one is in search of oblivion and indulgence from that which is eternal; while at the same time the crowd shouts mockingly at God, «Yes, now see whether you can get hold of us»; yet since it is difficult in the rush of the crowd to distinguish the individual, difficult to see the single tree when one is looking at the wood, the sober countenance of eternity quietly waits.
«When it isn't just poor kids who couldn't get health insurance who are over there,» Hedges told the group of sober - faced teenagers on bean - bag chairs, «but when it's kids like you, kids from Wellesley High School, who are dying, I can guarantee there will be outrage and demands for the war to end,» After that, they asked him no more questions.
Implicit biblical support for democracy does not come from happy idealism about every man's worth or his capacity for sound judgment, rather, it flows from sober realism about every man's tendency to sin against his neighbor if he can get away with it.
Meanwhile Jenson Button seemed to have sobered up enough from his Abu Dhabi bender and got to sample a GT500 - spec Honda NSX, which will no doubt add to the speculation that he'll be racing in the popular Japanese championship in 2017.
Pretty down to earth and sobering stuff from the Spaniard, who is also certain that Spurs have to get in the winning groove this weekend against Stoke.
Whilst we get emotionally attached to some of these players and try and convince ourselves they are good enough to stay it is often sobering to see where these outgoing players go — often «decent» clubs but fair to say a level or so down from where we probably are.
I am seriously tired of him repeating himself everytime when he gets beat, I think it's a big big yawn for any sober Arsenal fan.And it seems Wenger is getting consistent in the wrong area from my point of view too!
One sobering quote I just couldn't get out of my head was from Dr. Mariana Chilton, Ph.D., an associate professor of public health at Drexel University and director of Witnesses to Hunger, who said: This recession will be permanently inscribed in the bodies and the brains of children growing up today.
It deserves sober attention from serious people, which it's not getting.
McBride is no fool, and when sober is clever and well read, but from his youth, drink and a desire to inflict physical pain and damage on anyone considered an opponent — other sportsmen, fellow drinkers down the pub, journalists, civil servants, politicians — got the better of him.
The New York State Police and local law enforcement across the state will participate in the national «Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over» campaign from Friday, Dec. 18th through Friday, Jan. 1, 2016.
The 20 - day campaign, Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over, runs from Aug. 21 to Sept..
That was the message from Dutchess County Marcus J. Molinaro, local municipal and law officials and traffic safety advocates this morning at a Dutchess County STOP - DWI Program press conference to launch the «Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over» enforcement crackdown, a multi-agency coordinated enforcement effort to enhance roadway safety efforts and prevent impaired driving injuries and fatalities in Dutchess County.
We urge drivers to make advance plans to get a sober ride home from a friend, a taxi or by using public transportation.
Contributions from careful, sober - minded scientists can also help defuse controversy in fields that get headlines, such as climate change and embryonic stem cells.
But a week later, when the Sun makes its annual opposition with stern Saturn, we could get a sobering fine from the cosmos if we speak or act in haste.
Sobering statistics show that more people are getting diabetes each year and from a younger age.
We started out the meal with beer mimosas and bellinis (I'll let you guess which one I ordered) because one should never be too sober at bottomless brunch, which the table next to us took to heart and proceeded to get hilariously rowdy, making us laugh with their tales from the night before.
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i'm just one of them good ole boys from the country, i got a year round farmers tan and love partying with my friends and just raising hell, i'm a beer pong champ, but currently on a 10 month sober fest soon to be over once i get outta iraq
And now I worry that all the hype will actually deter some people from seeing the film, because when does one ever get in the mood to watch a film I personally described as «sobering and immensely difficult to watch»?
One sequence juxtaposes the visual embodiment of Thanos» worldview, via a small child balancing a knife on her palm (in the foreground) and the harsh and sobering reality of said idea in practice, which comes from a line of people getting massacred (in the background).
From there, a decision to get sober forces, Patrick, to confront the demons that led him to this lifestyle.
When ENR reads about people like Skyline High's Anisa Mughal, he is reminded of a quote (slightly altered to fit ENR's circumstances) from Tom Lehrer: «It is a sobering thought to consider that by the time Mozart got to be my age, he had been dead for 16 years.»
The crackdown runs from December 13 — January 1, 2014, and is supported by $ 7.5 million in national advertising in TV and radio advertising featuring NHTSA's «Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over» campaign.
When a zombie hit you, you get sober, so if you get hit you need to make sure to drink to balance it and prevent yourself from being too sober.
Took me most of a week to get a simple straight answer to that, and it came from a Harvard string theorist, quite sober and clear.
I got some sobering input on the threat of major levee failures along an area called the Middle Mississippi Region (a 200 - mile stretch roughly between Saint Louis, Mo., and Cairo, Ill.) from Nicholas Pinter, a professor of applied geology at the University of California, Davis, who has extensively studied flood risks there.
These figures can only mean one thing — a lot of those who got injured due to car accidents were rooted from negligent drivers who cares very little to traffic laws, focused driving, or being a sober driver.
To get started, let's take a look at some sobering facts from the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) from October 1, 2012:
To get out from under all of the hand - waving and finger - pointing, a sober look at the statistics does suggest the U.S. economy has made a significant recovery in the past six years.
About Blog When I got sober on February 3, 2015, I decided to tuck that old blog away and write from this new perspective of being a sober woman striving to be a better human every single day.
The ideal client for my practice is one who is experiencing consequences from their alcohol and / or drug use and wants to get sober or explore the possibility of such.
The first year is always the hardest, but once you pass the first year of relapse prevention, it will get easier to stay away from using in favor of a healthy, sober lifestyle.
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