Sentences with phrase «of sober people»

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Healthy and sober, Masih says he's «thrilled and grateful to be given a second chance to work in this field helping many people suffering from the disease of addiction.»

As people sobered up, Komisar became the conscience of a generation of start - ups that he encouraged to build businesses with a significant purpose beyond just making money.

In the study, participants who consumed a little bit of alcohol were faster to solve puzzles than people who were completely sober.

According to the research team the findings offer a sobering reality check: «some normally functioning people may never acquire expert performance in certain domains, regardless of the amount of deliberate practice they accumulate.»

Despite sobering statistics about most Americans» lack of retirement savings, many people have done an admirable job of socking away enough money.

Not reported by our corporate media is that very sober and distinguished people such as Sergei Lavrov and Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov are quietly tell their US counterparts in carefully weighed words that it behooves them to consider well the full import of their actions.

It's not a systematic way of converting drunks into sober people, nobody has the power to do that.

In spite of everything, at the end of six months, Bill had sobered only one person — himself.

AA recognizes that there must be a reorientation of the personality if the person is to stay sober.

Sure, people can say you violate your anonymity, or our traditions about publicity, etc. but I also know there may be some who need to hear your message where it will give them the courage to try this (hard, as you said) way of getting sober.

Is the sober member of AA really a new person, or has he achieved a more effective way of controlling his unresolved inner conflicts?

As sobering as some of the responses were, I felt a strange kinship with these people.

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.

Even if we suppose a man so packed with healthy - mindedness as never to have experienced in his own person any of these sobering intervals, still, if he is a reflecting being, he must generalize and class his own lot with that of others; and, doing so, he must see that his escape is just a lucky chance and no essential difference.

It is in the history book of the Jewish people that we read sobering verses like «Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my heritage» (Isa.

The phases are: (1) catharsis; (2) self - deceit; (3) enjoying the limelight and sobering up; (4) a time of denied traumas; (5) becoming a resource person; (6) functioning as a «survivor - in - residence»; and (7) the postsurvivor era.

We are looking for a sober and responsible position which squares with as full an understanding as we can get of what the history of the Christian people reveals.

Without time for fact checking, understanding context and sober reflection, and with the immense peer pressure of thousands (sometimes millions) of people all holding the same strong opinion, how likely are we to dissent from the crowd?

Yet another reaction took place in more sober moments as people of faith watched the giddy celebrations with a tangled mix of emotions.

Many people who are atheist or agnostic have gotten sober and stayed sober by replacing the bottle they worshiped with a philosophy (AA is a philosophy, by the by, a way of looking at Life and Being), with the wisdom of the group or even of humanity in general, with whatever works for them.

As I look at the kind of people that the Muslim world admires I'm increasingly convinced that they are deserving of our deep and abiding pity... and our clear - eyed, sober, realistic opposition... unclouded by political - correctness and our mistaken classification of a violent totalizing political ideology as a «religion.»

Sometimes, I feel like the only sober person in a car full of drunks, that refuse to let me drive.

Many will tell you that you will get drunk if you don't find god, but the truth is I have seen people stay sober by having large displacements of old ideas with new ones.

They of all people should have recognized Him and the truth, yet they didn't, Very sobering thought.

I figured a) these people were funny, kind, and not plastered; b) they believed that some kind of higher power had helped them get sober; c) they knew something I did not.

Staying sober is not easy for a lot of people, it takes hundreds of AA meeting and the 12 step program to do so.

The constitutionally sombre religious person makes even of his religious peace a very sober thing.

Sober Indian historiography has questioned any attempt at a simplistic presentation of the interaction between peoples in the early millennia of Indian history.

If one is simply a hairy biped and not a person, then alone or not alone and raging drunk or sober are all merely questions of preference.

But time and place are strong medicine for many in our world, where, to quote Flannery O'Connor, many people «ain't frum anywhere,» and where a contemporary writer like Warren's fellow Kentuckian Bobbie Ann Mason finds a sobering story in the lives of many of her characters who can't think of anything to do with themselves.

These letters drove home to me the sobering fact that the Electronic Church is a formidable threat to mainline churches today, not because it threatens to reduce income or attendance, but because it has revealed a significant failure on the part of most mainline churches to deal with many of the people in their own neighborhoods.

There are apparently plenty of people who want support in getting and staying sober, but are turned off by the cultish AA program.

At a conference in Japan, a pioneer of Christian dialogue with tribal peoples once observed that Western Christians tend to be at ease only with those adherents of other faiths who are as precise and sober as they are.

I guess Ms. Knust first forgot to read 1 Timothy 3:2 «A bishop (Pastor) then must be blameless, the HUSBAND of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;» It amazes me how people over the past 20 years want everything to be equal, including a position of Pastor.

In fact after people get clean and sober, they can be a member of The Wolf Pack and begin to influence others at those meetings for Christ's sake.

Receipt of shipments containing alcoholic beverages requires the signature of a sober adult (a person 21 years of age or older who is not intoxicated).

«If people were intoxicated by the promise of Michael's return, this sobered them up.

Dogs We hear a lot of horror stories when it comes to new babies and dogs, and the statistics are sobering: Each year dogs bite an estimated 4.5 million people, and children are by far the most common victims.

But it's clear that Facebook and other social networking sites has made life more challenging for people in relationships, and a sobering study recently published in the Journal of Marital & Family Therapy indicates how ill - equipped most therapists are in dealing with Internet infidelity:

But divorce rates for those with bipolar are much more sobering; about 90 percent of marriages in which one person has bipolar end.

Last week's New Climate Economy report was a good example of giving a sober assessment of the challenges (rapid urbanisation, growing populations, resource constraints, climate change), accompanied by a positive story that cutting greenhouse emissions can be low cost and improve people's lives.

Members, journalists, advisers and lobbyists get to socialise and remind each other they're real people outside the Westminster grind of serious, sober meetings.

Further trialling of Alcohol Treatment Centres (special facilities designed to help people who are highly intoxicated by providing a safe place to sober up, whilst offering supervision and elements of clinical care)

«It's a sobering challenge to political leaders and the business community on Long Island when three - quarters of the people say there is less opportunity than there used to be.»

It is sobering to think that, if people of conscience had responded to Williams» call, then Corey Johnson might never have been dragged into the fine procedural net that the NYPD has cast in pursuit of «Broken Windows» policing.

«During this sober moment of tragedy and horror, Nigeria wishes to re-affirm its continued solidarity with the government and good people of the U.S.» (NAN)

It's sobering to reflect on what was achieved by so many people and governments acting together to respond to the plight of refugees in Europe in 1956.

«As we reflect on the sobering lessons of atheist extremism of the 20th century, let us never forget how the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life leads ultimately to a truncated vision of man and of society and thus a reductive vision of a person and his destiny.»

A sobering report to governors about the potential consequences of repealing the Obama - era health care law warns that federal spending cuts probably would create funding gaps for states and threaten many people with the loss of insurance coverage.

A people terribly injured, on the eve of a major election, could indeed engineer an electorally sobering result!