Wilson's early efforts to help others become sober were ineffective, prompting Dr. Silkworth to suggest that Wilson place less stress on religion and more on " the science " of treating alcoholism.

more and more, Bill discovered that new adherents could get sober by believing in each other and in the strength of this group.

Men women were members yet who had proven over and over again, by extremely painful experience, that they could not get sober on their own had somehow become more powerful when two or three of them worked on their common problem.

She admitted to being a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, but claimed that she had been sober for more than ten years by that point, and was not using any drugs, with the exception of prescribed painkillers due to discomfort and pain from the recent extraction of her wisdom teeth.

This new version of the game presented a more sober and serious approach to the concept of a post-nuclear world, at odds with the more light-hearted and adventurous approach taken by previous editions ; it was also the first edition of the game to include fantastical nanotechnology on a large scale.

Geza Vermes states that compared to the Christian accounts: " the sober picture of Josephus appears all the more believable ".

At the same time the fears of the more sober and respectable citizens were allayed by Otho's liberal professions of his intention to govern equitably, and by his judicious clemency towards Marius Celsus, consul-designate, a devoted adherent of Galba.

The decorous sweep of the pavane suited the new more sober Spanish-influenced courtly manners of 16th century Italy.

During the six-week scriptwriting process, Kurosawa and his screenwriters realized that " six sober samurai were a bore — they needed a character that was more off-the-wall.

were more sober, and gave details of the effects of nuclear weapons on the human body and mind.

A good example of the last type is the Fantasia a6 ( No 2 ) which begins with a sober imitative paragraph before progressively more fragmented textures ( working in a quotation from Greensleeves at one point ).

This was probably due to the sober dress of his Protestant sitters, more than any personal preference.

The town drunk ( also called a tavern fool ) is a stock character, almost always male, who is drunk more often than sober.

Upon its 1944 release, Time called it " one of the year's prettiest pictures "; " Technicolor has seldom been more affectionately used than in its registrations of the sober mahoganies and tender muslins and benign gaslights of the period.

The sober alternative is provided by Sandwich's biographer, N. A. M. Rodger, who suggests Sandwich's commitments to the navy, to politics and the arts mean the first sandwich was more likely to have been consumed at his desk.

The sober alternative is provided by Sandwich's biographer, N. A. M. Rodger, who suggests Sandwich's commitments to the navy, to politics and the arts mean the first sandwich was more likely to have been consumed at his desk.

Holmfirth was the home of Bamforth & Co Ltd, who were well known for their cheeky seaside postcards-although around the time of the First World War, they produced postcards of a more sober nature.

The Financial Times established itself as the sober but reliable " stockbroker's Bible " or " parish magazine of the City ", its only rival being the slightly older and more daring Financial News.

William of Malmesbury said that William was a courteous and sober man, with little of the flamboyant lifestyle of the more " modern " bishops.

The Vogtländer for him are the " Saxon Tyrolese, only pleasanter, livelier, more persistent in the pursuit of their goal, but just as sober, if also rougher.

Albert Victor's posthumous reputation became so bad that in 1964 Philip Magnus called his death a " merciful act of providence ", supporting the theory that his death removed an unsuitable heir to the throne and replaced him with the reliable and sober George V. In 1972, Michael Harrison was the first modern author to re-assess Albert Victor and portray him in a more sympathetic light.

Under Sangster Daimler's vehicles became a little less sober and more performance oriented.

The people of Graz, the capital of Styria, speak yet another dialect which is not very Styrian and more easily understood by people from other parts of Austria than other Styrian dialects, for example from western Styria.

When the Germanic peoples entered the Roman Empire and founded successor-kingdoms in the western part, most had been Arian Christians for more than a century.

The orange western carrot is known in some areas of China as " foreign Daikon " ( or more properly hung lo bac in Cantonese, hung meaning " red ").

The second and much more formidable host of crusaders gradually made its way to Constantinople, led in sections by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemond of Taranto, Raymond IV of Toulouse and other important members of the western nobility.

Farther north the western depression, known as the Albertine Rift is occupied for more than half its length by water, forming the Great Lakes of Tanganyika, Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert, the first-named over 400 miles ( 600 km ) long and the longest freshwater lake in the world.

Art historian Richard Poss took a more flexible approach, maintaining that the astronomical rock art of the North American Southwest should be read employing " the hermeneutic traditions of western art history and art criticism " Astronomers, however, raise different questions, seeking to provide their students with identifiable precursors of their discipline, and are especially concerned with the important question of how to confirm that specific sites are, indeed, intentionally astronomical.

Hundreds more Aleuts from the western chain and the Pribilofs were evacuated by the United States government during WW2 and placed in internment camps in southeast Alaska, where many died.

The USSR saw Cuba as having far more appeal with new revolutionary movements, western intellectuals, and members of the New Left, given Cuba's perceived David and Goliath struggle against US " imperialism ".

This name was used in Turkish side by side with Kostantiniyye, the more formal adaptation of the original Constantinople, during the period of Ottoman rule, while western languages mostly continued to refer to the city as Constantinople until the early 20th century.

During this same time, sections of southern and western China were occupied by ten, more stable, regimes so the period is also referred to as the Ten Kingdoms.

In the late 20th and early 21 century in Thailand, for example, there has been a cultural shift away from western social and political values more toward Japanese and Chinese.

Another difference is that lamb and mutton dishes are more commonly available than in other Chinese restaurants, due to the greater prevalence of these meats in the cuisine of western Chinese regions.

Unlike other anime and manga, where jokes and references are often exclusory or require knowledge of Japanese culture and / or the workings and conventions of anime, Cowboy Bebop is accessible – western audiences can connect with the characters readily and more fully understand their motivations and struggles.

This concept of asha versus the druj should not be confused with the good-versus-evil battle evident in western religions, for although both forms of opposition express moral conflict, the asha versus druj concept is more systemic and less personal, representing, for instance, chaos ( that opposes order ); or " uncreation ", evident as natural decay ( that opposes creation ); or more simply " the lie " ( that opposes truth, righteousness ).

* Métis fiddling, of central and western Canada featuring strong French Canadian influence, but with even more " crooked " tunes.

A large section of Greenwich Village, made up of more than 50 northern and western blocks in the area up to 14th Street, is part of a Historic District established by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.

It lasted more than thirty years until February 1943, when western Tripolitania was conquered by the Allies in the North African Campaign.

Hungarian is a Uralic language, more specifically an Ugric language ; the most closely related languages are Mansi and Khanty of western Siberia ( see Khanty – Mansia ).

Hackamores are more often seen in western riding.

Important production centers are the Hallertau in Germany ( which, in 2006, had more hop-growing area than any other country on Earth ), the Yakima ( Washington ) and Willamette ( Oregon ) valleys, and western Canyon County, Idaho ( including the communities of Parma, Wilder, Greenleaf, and Notus ).

The financial markets posed problems for established borrowers and even more for Tengzhong, a little-known company from western China, at the same time as the potential value of the Hummer brand continued to decline given high fuel prices and weak consumer demand.

The system had been nicknamed the imperfect bipolarism, referring to more proper bipolarism in other western countries ( the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France etc.

From this point on the western tradition came slowly to allow the artist far more flexibility, and a more realist approach to the figures.