Sentences with phrase «relying on substances»

Have you become more isolated or are you relying on substances to help you calm down and cope?

Finally, if your coping mechanisms are wearing out, you are having trouble sleeping, eating or concentrating for several days, having thoughts about injuring or killing yourself or others, you are relying on substances to change your mood, or if you want to talk to a mental health professional, please visit the SCC.

After following the advice and taking the recommended support to help me through everything, I slowly started to see not only my body change, but I could for the first time in my adult life sleep at night without relying on any substances.

Sorry, but you will have to rely on substance.

«We seem to be increasingly relying on a substance, thallium - 201, that should mostly be used as a backup option.

Not exact matches

In its bid to block flows of diluted bitumen, the Horgan government is relying on a B.C. Environmental Management Act provision to regulate transport of harmful substances, and the province may be on shaky legal ground if it restricts one transportation mode and not another.

Since most people rely on some kind of substance to help them escape pain, to relax, or to socialize, the moral question is whether the immediate good outweighs the possible harm» something very specific to each situation.

On the topic of man's nature and substance, we don't have to rely on what the bible «seems» to say, because we have rather emphatic and repeated teaching directed to that very topic from the beginninOn the topic of man's nature and substance, we don't have to rely on what the bible «seems» to say, because we have rather emphatic and repeated teaching directed to that very topic from the beginninon what the bible «seems» to say, because we have rather emphatic and repeated teaching directed to that very topic from the beginning.

With the controversy over the site and substance of his proposed Islamic center now spanning the globe, the imam is relying on an informal cabinet of faith - based advisors, many of them Christian and Jewish, for crisis management advice and moral support during the most difficult public crisis of his life.

Or, turning from substance to methodology, it might be observed that some processists (e.g., Whitehead) articulated their position in terms that root in physics, while others (especially Bergson) relied more on biological considerations.

Now I absolutely relied on her editing, and it dealt not only with style but, more and more, with the substance of my thought.

By relying on WADA assessments of substances and any performance - enhancing effects they may provide, the Tour, according to the lawsuit, «attempts to avoid, and otherwise shirks, all responsibility with regard to prohibitions imposed upon its members.»

Homeopathy is an alternative branch of medicine that relies on tiny amounts of substances to effect a cure by stimulating the body's natural immune response.

As time goes on, however, many adolescents come to rely heavily on substances in social situations, creating a false perception that socializing without the crutch of a psychoactive substance is impossible.

McDonald, who serves on the Assembly's Committee on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, said that in discussions with staff there was an interest in preventing the tax from hitting pharmacies or hospice facilities, while also protecting those in recovery who are rely on opioid - based drugs like Suboxone or methadone.

Defense lawyers contended that the government had characterized incorrectly the substance of recorded conversations and emails, and were relying on self - serving witnesses who testified with nonprosecution agreements.

NYCHA has come under fire in the last few weeks for failing to perform required lead paint inspections and relying on untrained workers to inspect and remediate apartments for the toxic substance.

As a rule in modern British politics, if you have to rely on comparing your mainstream opponents to the politics which threatened Europe in the 1940s then the substance of your argument is vapid.

The technology relies on a method Waterloo's Prof. Janusz Pawliszyn developed in the 1990s called solid - phase microextraction (SPME), which uses a solid coating on a sample probe to selectively extract chemical substances from blood, saliva, urine and even plasma.

The method relies on the availability of a potential user base, the costs of the drug (legal and otherwise), the subjective experience, the substance's dependence potential, and the overall ease of acquisition.

In nature, a slime mould relies on chemical receptors on its surface to sense substances in its path as it creeps along the forest floor.

Why, they asked, do we rely on hazardous substances for so many manufacturing processes?

The current study differs from previous investigations in that — instead of relying only on participants» answers to survey questions about their use of stimulants and other drugs, alcohol consumption and other factors including quality of life — it relied on structured interviews that have been validated for the diagnosis of neuropsychiatric disorders, including substance - use disorders.

The task required the youngsters to go beyond relying simply on shape and size and to explore what the substances were made of to make the correct identification and word choice.

Instead of fully nourishing ourselves, we rely on packaged, microwavable or takeout foods, which lack nutrients and often have an abundance of substances that are detrimental to our health.

Many supplements rely on enzymes and other substances in your body to «activate» them, and having nutritional gaps means that there will be poor activation and / or poor utilization of the supplements you take.

Prior to that time, physicians and their patients relied primarily on antimicrobial substances like colloidal silver, antiseptics like alcohol and hydrogen peroxide >> Read Article

Sanctum is the perfect example of a film that's style over substance, it looks great, but the plot is paper thin, and relies on recycled ideas from previous films in order to create an engaging film.

But given that the creative forces of this second - string «Hunger Games» wannabe have made the now - par - for - the - course, money - grab move of altering and stretching events in the final book into a two - part finale, «Allegiant» is basically a thumb - twiddling placeholder that relies on crashes, attacks and subpar effects rather than dramatic substance.

Director John Madden's ensemble rom - com relies on an original screenplay by Ol Parker, and there's not enough substance therein to dramatically sustain a two hour film.

It lacks energy and the willingness to go deeper to provide the audience with some substance, instead relying, almost solely, on chase scenes.

The Happening, unfortunately, turns out to be a movie that relies more on the past of body of work of its director than on substance.

Their humor relies chiefly on them ingesting substances and pulling pranks on one another (or on another party), but there's no malice behind the stunts.

Some worry that technology - rich environments encourage students to rely more on clip art than creativity and to emphasize form over substance.

For her work marshaling hard facts and empirical data against corporate - backed «reformers» who rely largely on substance - free rhetoric and platitudes, Ravitch has been named this year's winner of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize — so clearly, she's holding her own, even as U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is launching a desperate PR campaign to make her Public Enemy # 1.

Bitter Apple or other nasty tasting substances help keep pups from chewing but don't rely on this entirely.

But some veterinarians are looking to the past to find successful treatments that rely on natural substances like herbs or homeopathic remedies, or physical manipulations like massage, chiropractic, or acupuncture.

Although our pets have human qualities, they have a different way of metabolizing substances; so we, as veterinarians, rely on studies to come up with a safe dose.»

Despite AKC rules barring the addition of «foreign substances» to the coat or changing the dog by artificial means, a number of exhibitors seem to rely on such products to conceal faults.

All heartworm in - office tests rely on finding substances that only mature female heartworms produce or on finding larval heartworms (microfilaria) produced by adult heartworms in your pet.

Instead, developers had to rely on packing a title with as much substance as possible.

While some trailers were truly eye - catching, Staff Writer Emma Boyle aptly notes Sony's presentation relied too heavily on cinematic spectacles, many of games we've seen before, and didn't offer enough substance.

As with Noland's earlier work, he continued to apply color as a physical material substance, but unlike his earlier hard edged paintings which rely on fields of dense color, for Into the Cool he used color through subtle tone and transparency.

But * even * if one thinks it is plausibly authentic, the prudent approach would * still * be not to rely on it in any way, especially since it adds very little of substance.

Where the athlete can not rely on the reduction of the period of ineligibility on the basis that he was not at fault or not significantly at fault, does he have any information at his disposal that he could convey to the doping authority that may assist it in identifying other athletes who dope or athletes or other professionals involved in coaching, training or management who distribute prohibited substances?

H was entitled to rely on information presented to him by the corporation's managing director and its accountant that the shares had no value and the debt had no substance.

(para. 81) The focus should be on matters of substance on which a party relies on to impeach a witness's credibility.

The College also relied on a case, K.B. v. Alberta, 2012 ABQB 329, to assert that deviations from a form prescribed by regulation are not relevant if they do not impact the «substance» of implementing the legislator's intention [25, 98].

InSite, a pilot project providing a safe - injection - site for intravenous drug addicts in Vancouver, relies on a federal exemption from provisions of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to provide services.

Lend substance to your arguments by using the language of the court instead of relying on third - party headnotes