Sentences with phrase «remain sober for»

I will remain sober for the entirety of 2017.

I know «many» people that never stepped foot into an AA / NA meeting, and were addic - ted and have gotten and have remained sober for many, many years.

Of course I remained sober for the experience — though I did walk around naked, as the character does, but of course, this may be far more info than anyone wanted to know....

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There are no fees for membership or requirements for following the 12 steps — only a willingness to try to remain sober.»

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

A man also devotes himself (gives himself away), and it is a poor sort of a man who does not do it; but his self is not devotion (this is the expression for womanly substantial devotion), nor does he acquire himself by devotion, as in another sense a woman does, he has himself; he gives himself away, hut his self still remains behind as a sober consciousness of devotion, whereas woman, with genuine womanliness, plunges her self into that to which she devotes herself.

And even if a drunkard does in some way realize that it would be for his good to remain sober, his disordered passion for drink overrides the insight of his reason.

The outlook this summer is sobering: Wildland fire potential for most of coastal California and the Sierra Nevada Mountains is above normal and is expected to remain that way through October, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.

And then there's Last Men in Aleppo on Netflix, a sobering look at the remaining citizens of Aleppo bracing themselves for a siege.

The findings, if unsurprising, are nonetheless sobering: the extent of public school choice has been negligible; participation in supplemental educational services, while rising, remains low; and the law's restructuring requirements for schools and districts are being deployed in their mildest forms.

Værslev's work navigates between different painterly traditions, and demonstrates how painting continues to offer the potential for effective personal expression while remaining a sober and prosaic locus for painted signs on a surface.

While these developments are to be celebrated, there remains a sobering reality: they still leave a lot of headroom for China to expand its coal power plant capacity between now and 2030, even though its coal fleet is already more than twice the size of the US coal fleet.

The more complex explanation is even more sobering — carbon cycle models indicate that ~ 25 percent of CO2 from fossil fuel combustion will remain in the atmosphere for thousands of years, and ~ 7 percent longer than one hundred thousand years.

«However, the fact that more than half of respondents believe that the homeownership rate will fall lower should be a sobering reminder that significant challenges remain ahead for the housing market, from negative equity to millions of foreclosed homeowners who now have impaired credit, making a return to homeownership harder than it would be otherwise.»