For example, a regular 275ml bottle of WKD contains 1. 4 units, whereas Bacardi Breezer and Smirnoff Ice both contain 1. 5 units of alcohol.

High-alcohol liquor, two forms of which were in the US Pharmacopoeia up until 1916 and in common use by physicians well into the 1930s, has been used in the past as an agent for dulling pain, due to the CNS depressant effects of ethyl alcohol, a notable example being the American Civil War.

For example, there are differences between African, East Asian and Indo-racial groups in how they metabolize alcohol.

Amyl alcohol is used as a solvent and in esterfication for example in the production of amyl acetate.

The per capita income of the CAR is often listed as being around $ 300 a year, said to be one of the lowest in the world, but this figure is based mostly on reported sales of exports and largely ignores the more important but unregistered sale of foods, locally-produced alcohol, diamonds, ivory, bushmeat, and traditional medicines, for example.

To concentrate a solution, one must add more solute ( for example, alcohol ), or reduce the amount of solvent ( for example, water ).

For example, until the bacterial cause of tuberculosis was discovered in 1882, experts variously ascribed the disease to heredity, a sedentary lifestyle, depressed mood, and overindulgence in sex, rich food, or alcohol — all the social ills of the time.

During the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 ), the Chinese used a silver canister where written lots could be drawn that designated which player had to drink and specifically how much ; for example, from 1, 5, 7, or 10 measures of drink that the youngest player, or the last player to join the game, or the most talkative player, or the host, or the player with the greatest alcohol tolerance, etc.

For example, ethyl alcohol and water form an azeotrope of 95. 6 % at 78. 1 ° C.

In contrast, port wine ( for example ) is fortified halfway through its fermentation, which stops the process so that not all of the sugar is turned into alcohol.

For example, water is always composed of a 2: 1 ratio of hydrogen to oxygen atoms, and ethyl alcohol or ethanol is always composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in a 2: 6: 1 ratio.

An example from Psychobiology of Personality by Marvin Zuckerman is alcoholism: Studies suggest that alcoholism is an inherited disease, but if a subject with a strong biological background of alcoholism in their family tree is never exposed to alcohol, they will not be so inclined regardless of their genome.

For example, a combination of depressant drugs that affect the central nervous system ( CNS ), such as alcohol and Valium, can cause a greater reaction than simply the sum of the individual effects of each drug if they were used separately.

The collection of a tax in order to spend it on a specified purpose, for example collecting a tax on alcohol to pay directly for alcoholism rehabilitation centres, is called hypothecation.

For example, a high excise is used to discourage alcohol consumption, relative to other goods.

For example, children may not work after 11: 30 pm under most circumstances, or perform in any location that serves alcohol.

However, following the example of Port, a small amount of distilled alcohol made from cane sugar was added to stabilize the wine by boosting the alcohol content ( the modern process of fortification using brandy did not become widespread till the 18th century ).

It has been shown, for example, that people addicted to alcohol and other drugs pay more attention to drug-related stimuli.

For example, while convenience stores in Alaska, Pennsylvania and New Jersey cannot sell any kind of alcohol at all, stores in Nevada, New Mexico, and California may sell alcoholic beverages of any sort, while stores in Virginia, Idaho, or Oregon can sell beer and wine, but not liquor.

Perhaps the earliest recorded example is the prohibition of the use of alcohol under Islamic law ( Sharia ), which is usually attributed to passages in the Qur ' an dating from the 7th century.

An example is " wood alcohol " or methanol, which is not poisonous itself, but is chemically converted to toxic formaldehyde and formic acid in the liver.

Her methods are unconventional by kingdom standards, for example forgoing the use of leeches and instead using alcohol to " the ill humours which can infect a wound ," but are more often than not successful.

These laws vary from time to time and from place to place: note variations in gambling laws, for example, and the prohibition or encouragement of duelling in history.

Activities sometimes criminalized on religious grounds include ( for example ) alcohol-consumption ( prohibition ), abortion and stem-cell research.

There are no female Rabbis among the British Masorti, for example, and some Masorti congegations maintain non-egalitarian practices with regard to gender, such as the mechitza and the prohibition of women reading from the Torah, while nearly all American congregations are fully egalitarian and the American Rabbinical schools ordain women as Rabbis.

They cover, for example, a prohibition to non-consensual sex, to sex outside of marriage, to sexual activity in public, besides many others.

There have been a variety of criticisms of this treaty, including that it is too broad ( for example in its prohibition of circumvention of technical protection measures, even where such circumvention is used in the pursuit of legal and fair use rights ) and that it applies a ' one size fits all ' standard to all signatory countries despite widely differing stages of economic development and knowledge industry.

For example, in Tennessee the Democratic Party was divided on the issue of prohibition.

Seizures such as that one, and even the prohibition of the product itself, have been cited on political blogs and web forums as an example of an overzealous application of law and an intrusion upon personal liberty.

One example of a statutory exception to the prohibition of third party standing exists in the qui tam provision of the Civil False Claims Act.

For example while there is a prohibition against owning chametz on Passover, no such prohibition applies to kitniyot.

Rabbi Salanter set an example for the Lithuanian Jewish community during the cholera epidemic of 1848, making sure that necessary relief work on Shabbat for Jews was done by Jews ( despite the ordinary prohibition against doing work on Shabbat ), and ordering Jews whose lives were in danger to eat rather than fast on the fast day of Yom Kippur.

Zoning laws are, of course, the classic example, see Hadacheck v. Sebastian, 239 U. S. 394 ( 1915 ) ( prohibition of brickyard operations within certain neighborhoods ); Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U. S. 365 ( 1926 ) ( prohibition of industrial use ); Gorieb v. Fox, 274 U. S. 603, 608 ( 1927 ) ( requirement that portions of parcels be left unbuilt ); Welch v. Swasey, 214 U. S. 91 ( 1909 ) ( height restriction ), which have been viewed as permissible governmental action even when prohibiting the most beneficial use of the property.

For example, some priests make on the use of the so-called internal forum solution ( which is not sanctioned by the Magisterium ) to justify actions or lifestyles incompatible with Church teaching, such as Christ's prohibition of remarriage after divorce or sexual activity outside marriage.

Another example of its influence is in that of the United States Constitution, which includes the prohibition against prior restraint, or prepublication censorship.

For example, the prohibition on eating pork is not to be taken literally, but rather forbids the people to live like swine, who supposedly grunt when hungry but are silent when full: likewise, the people are not to pray to God when they are in need but ignore him when they are satisfied.

Another example is the Japanese prohibition of female acting in 1625, then the prohibition of young male actors in 1657, that create " Onnagata " which is the ground of Japanese theatrical tradition.

If no satisfactory reason is provided ( for example, illness or religious prohibition ), a relatively small fine is imposed ($ 20 ), and failure to pay the fine may result in a court hearing.

The first two of these forms developed very early ; and, in spite of their prohibition by synods here and there ( for example that of Liège circa 1287 ), they survive in various places to the present day.

Critics from religious parties such as Shas and Agudat Israel scorned the NRP for having been in the governing coalition with an ultra-secular party like Shinui ( which was often described as " anti-religious ") and for not doing enough to keep the Jewish character of Israel ; in one example, the party displayed little, if any, resistance or dismay, against former Internal Minister Avraham Poraz's decision not to enforce the prohibition of selling bread during Passover ( when eating bread is a prohibition of Chametz according to Orthodox Judaism ).

Richard Hofstadter, for example, in 1955 wrote that prohibition, " was a pseudo-reform, a pinched, parochial substitute for reform " that " was carried about America by the rural-evangelical virus ".