Sentences with phrase «of social drinking»

For those of a less excitable persuasion there's plenty of social drinking fun to be had.

Perhaps the most concerning content issue are the many scenes of social drinking in bars and homes, however no one appears intoxicated.

Other minor content concerns include some sexual posturing in the Oval Office and brief portrayals of social drinking.

For that reason, this list of tips to help manage social drinking in the healthiest way can really help you to stay leaner and healthier and still balance a little bit of social drinking into your life.

If the prenatal exposure to alcohol occurred in the context of social drinking or binge drinking prior to knowledge about being pregnant, it is important to address the mother's emotions and concerns, and support her decision to quit alcohol use when she did.

Those who begin addictive drinking early in life, or with no period of social drinking, are often of the latter type.

He says, «I had no period of social drinking.

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You can estimate your longevity using online calculators, such as the ones from the Social Security Administration (which simply asks your gender and date of birth), Living to 100 and financial services firm Blueprint Income (which factors in other details including your weight and how much you exercise and drink alcohol).

SOBCon kicked off last night with an evening of drinks, noshes and networking hosted by the Social Media Club Chicago at the old - school, glamorous Drake Hotel where I managed to check off meeting two of the three Chrises — Brogan and Garrett, both of whom are friendly and approachable.

The gradual «smooshing together» of social and work lives — the forced coziness of Friday drink carts and boardroom birthday cakes — is regarded with growing skepticism from some quarters, he said.

Jared Schoepf, founder of SafeSIPP SafeSIPP is a social venture addressing three problems facing rural communities in the developing world: transportation, purification and storage of drinking water.

When I stopped by the Horseshoe, he was buying drinks for everyone who showed up — friend, acquaintance or media — urging people to try out a bike or enjoy a complimentary taco and then settling in the back of the club when the music started: a couple of little - known local indie bands played, and Broken Social Scene member Brendan Canning — dressed as if he'd just arrived from Wimbledon's centre court — did a DJ set.

Starbucks also succeeds at fostering an emotional connection with customers, due in large part to the emotional connection most people have with coffee — drinking it with friends, cozying up to a hot drink in the winter time and enjoying the inherent social nature of «going out for coffee.»

And then there's the increasing role of social media in propagating gossip, «sometimes accompanied by photographs of their authors, drunk or naked or in other forms of moral dishabille.»

Before Starbucks confirmed the release of the drink, employees at stores in Washington, Iowa and California, among other locations, posted images of the drinks on social media.

Guests of the M Social in Singapore can call the hotel's robot concierge, Savioke's «AURA,» to deliver towels or drinks to their room.

From oil in Gatorade to the amount of caffeine and other stimulants in energy drinks and the so - called «pink slime» found in beef, previously unnoticed ingredients are coming under scrutiny as health - conscious consumers demand more information about what they eat and drink, and sometimes go public via social networking and the Internet.

VICTORIA — After the Christy Clark government refused to take the issue of lead in the drinking water of North Coast communities seriously, B.C. New Democrat MLA for the North Coast, Jennifer Rice, initiated water testing in three social housing units...

A handful of citizen volunteers digging up the correct information and piping it through blogs, social media, letters to the editor and conversations at coffee shops and on door steps to protect what we value — drinking water, schools, parks, key natural habitat and recreational areas.

What makes Innocent Drinks great is that they have built, and are always maintaining, active communities on all of their branded social media platforms.

Since social media is basically word of mouth marketing after drinking a lot of Red Bull, beginning a conversation within the social media sphere can be very successful.

100,000: The number of new places to buy an alcoholic beverage in the U.S. that have been added since 2007, according to Nielsen, which notes the expansion of drinking outlets in places like dart clubs, movie theaters, and social ping pong establishments.

«The results of the tests I initiated show that the drinking water in one of the social housing homes has lead concentration levels that are too high,» said Rice.

VICTORIA — After the Christy Clark government refused to take the issue of lead in the drinking water of North Coast communities seriously, B.C. New Democrat MLA for the North Coast, Jennifer Rice, initiated water testing in three social housing units in her community.

The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

At a lively social event one evening a woman whose daughter was not exactly on the straight and narrow came up to me holding a drink that was obviously not her first of the evening.

The most common criticism of AA was that it has no concern for social drinking.

He is and has always been at the bottom of the social and economic ladder: he is isolated, uprooted, unattached, disorganized, demoralized and homeless, and it is in this context that he drinks to excess... he is the least respected member of the community....

Editors condemned the evil of liquor without much recognition of the social circumstances that might drive some people to drink.

«True Acoholics» that have a physical need for alcohol are not like those who are not physically addicted but drink to be social in their cultured circles of mass relationships.

I drink in his gentle sensitivity, his attention to those on the edge of our social circle.

I would submit that much of the scientific and social progress that has transpired since the Dark Ages was driven by those who didn't drink the Kool - Aid of organized religion, but who dared to strike - out on their own spiritual path, without necessarily «tossing out» the concept of a higher power in our lives.

The contrary argument, in favor of some form of drinking, takes one or more of the following three lines: the religious, the social, or the psychological.

Drinking that is a symptom of social and personal malady can not be effectively eliminated directly; it can be eliminated only by the healing of personality through the exchange of the life of satisfaction for that of devotion.

Both the religious and the secular - social uses of alcohol depend on its psychological effects, but they differ from purely psychological drinking in their emphasis on the objective forms and shared purposes of corporate life.

Perhaps most important of all is the development of social customs and pressures against individual and solitary drinking for psychological relief and in favor of community rituals in which the need to belong and to celebrate the goodness of life can be constructively satisfied.

A quarter of adults who attended religious services weekly in 2006 said they sometimes drank too much, a number that rose as church attendance decreased, according to the General Social Survey.

At the Yale Summer School of Alcohol Studies in 1943, social anthropologist John Dollard delivered a lecture on «Drinking Mores of the Social Classes.&social anthropologist John Dollard delivered a lecture on «Drinking Mores of the Social Classes.&Social Classes.»

A study by Joseph L. Lawrence and Milton A. Maxwell in the state of Washington indi cated that the heavy and unrestrained drinking at the bottom of the social scale, which Dollard had postulated, did not seem to be the pattern of the majority of this group, particularly the women.

In a society in which a majority of adults not only use alcohol but attach considerable social significance to drinking, it is safe to assume that the majority of persons who are now children and youth will eventually decide to drink.

Numerous psychological tests have shown that, although many alcoholics are able to function with remarkable social adequacy when they are not drinking, they make their social adjustment in spite of their inner conflicts.

The table is entitled «Distribution of the Adult Population and of Selected Social Segments by Certain Measures of Drinking Behavior, U.S.A., 1963.»

(2) We have seen that the availability of alcohol and its attractiveness as a symptom, as determined by social attitudes toward drinking and drunkenness, have a great deal to do with the matter of symptom selection.

It might be said that the failure of Prohibition legislation lay in our social class system, for the highest people socially did not taboo drinking and their social customs were stronger than legislative controls.

The only antidote to unexamined consumer behavior is a campaign of scientific and humane forces to inform both the corporate perpetrators of palpable falsehood and the equally responsible consumers that self - interest in the form of happiness and longevity, not to mention social justice, lies in considering an ethic of food and drink.

Significant empirical evidence concerning the amount of drinking and of problem drinking among various social class groups was made available in 1963 when Harold A. Mulford reported on a scientific survey of a cross section of the non-institutionalized adult population in the United States.

Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

In fact, she was more or less intolerable: a snobby, stuck - up rich girl who drank too much and was incessantly rude to anyone outside of her immediate social bubble.

If his drinking behavior is in defiance of the drinking standards of his important social or fellowship group.

He devised a «social complications» measure, to ascertain the amount of problem behavior connected with the drinking of each group.