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• n  the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol
• n  moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs
• n  a manner that is serious and solemn
• n  abstaining from excess

• Deaddiction is a long journey to sobriety and many flounder on the path to total abstinence.
• Like a reformed drunk, France has been smugly satisfied of late with its fiscal sobriety.
• Alexander Nemenov AFP Getty But now, 24 years after Russia's last big push for sobriety, President Dmitri Medvedev has decided to give it another shot.

• soberness
• dryness
• graveness
• gravity
• somberness
• sombreness
• temperance

• drunkenness

News & Articles

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• Sobriety checkpoint in Medina
  Ohio Highway Patrol troopers and local police officers conduct a sobriety checkpoint Friday evening on the west side of Medina. The checkpoint, the fourth in the county so far this year, began about 8 p.m. in the 900 block of West Liberty Street. (DAVID KNOX / GAZETTE)
  June 15, 2013 - The Medina County Gazette
• Sobriety Checkpoint Scheduled For Hilliard
  A sobriety checkpoint in Hilliard was announced by the Franklin County DUI Task Force. Get the story.
  June 14, 2013 - WBNS-10TV Columbus
• Sobriety checkpoint in Hilliard tonight
  The Franklin County DUI Task Force will have a sobriety checkpoint in Hilliard tonight. The operation will start at 9 p.m. and run until about 3 a.m. Saturday on Hilliard-Rome Road at Richlanne Drive.
  June 14, 2013 - The Columbus Dispatch

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Wall Street Journal
  It is a little odd getting lectures on sobriety from folks that spent like drunken sailors for the last decade,said Obama.
• Dennis Eckersley in CBC.ca
  It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic, but acceptance was a key to my sobriety,Eckersley said. "If I had not gained acceptance at that time of my life I would not be standing here today. My career...
• Cedric Benson in AFP
  There was no resistance on my part,Benson said. "Was I drunk? No. They gave me a field sobriety test, told me to say my ABCs and told me to count from 1 to 4 up and down. I'm thinking I passed all the tests, did everything right. Then the...