But if you believe that alcoholism is defined by a preoccupation with drinking, a steady increase in the amount you need to drink in order to get the same effect, and an inability to give it up -- and most in the medical profession do -- then more and more women fit the profile quite nicely, though often come to the realization on their own.
For example, the Canadian researchers examined the numbers of deaths in the 16 quarters following an increase in the minimum price to see if there was an effect.
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"There are local factors in Syria that are going to make it much more difficult to have an effect -- the middle classes in Syria have yet to really throw their lot in with the opposition, " he said.
With the simplicity of spreading word of mouth online, this in effect is an accelerator to these earlier incarnations of fundraising and this form of campaign promotion.
Granted, Mr. Zuckerberg was in Italy enjoying his honeymoon, but I still wonder whether some words to the millions of small investors he personally encouraged to invest in his vision might have had an ameliorating effect on the troubles Facebook has to this day in building stakeholder confidence.
Some would point to similar complacency in the US, where the central bank has promised, in effect, to spend an unlimited amount getting unemployment down.
It did not take exceptional levels of exposure to produce an effect - abnormalities were found in women exposed to levels below those found in a quarter of US women.
In an attempt to minimize the effect that bandwagon fans and frontrunners could have on the results, two years of data were used for stadium attendance, merchandise sales and TV ratings.
National police commissioner Bheki Cele said Mr Wright had "admitted to harbouring and interviewing Mr Pavlos Joseph at a time when the police were searching for the latter in order to effect an arrest".
Because before Obama, George Bush strategy was to lower tax on the rich and expect an increase in GOP due to the trickledown effect.
First, the active drug would have to be present in the food at sufficient levels to exert an adverse effect via direct toxicity or allergy.
But the first day's proceedings were overshadowed by a decision by Pakistan's chief justice, Said-uz Zaman Siddiqi, and five other Supreme Court judges, to refuse to take an oath of allegiance that would have in effect bound them to the army-led administration that has run the country since the coup in October.
They have yet to fully explore how gripping people in an engaging narrative can be a powerful way to effect change.
In an effort to tease out the effect of Zetia, researchers looked at a subgroup of patients who were supposed to lower their cholesterol to very low levels.
As I learned from my experience in investment consulting, to effect an industry consolidation there has to be some common ground and agreement on the rules to play by.
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Continued profit taking for long-term investors to take advantage of the low-capital gains tax rates still in effect could be an obvious factor, though hard to substantiate.
We as a nation must work together in an ongoing and tireless fashion to truly effect change.
Their reservations, the Arabs congratulate themselves in believing, appear to have had an effect on American policy.
Losing their local currencies for the euro meant, in effect, a move to an exchange not related to local economic or social realities.
This will, in effect, create an incentive for banks to wean themselves off of the capital infusion, or else the government will collect a greater share of returns.
He said the government had decided to bring in the new law through an ordinance, which allowed it to take effect immediately.
An hour runs about 930, 000 points, to give you an idea of the scale in effect here.
So to reduce the effect that fluctuations have in this country we need to take an all-of-the-above approach to our energy policy, and that's what the President is focused on.
If it costs a lot to film a real actor in a car crash--or if you want to create an effect a human couldn't do safely--use a computerized actor .
For example, in an ingenious argument, he shows that the chief effect of an inverted yield curve is to shift leadership from growth companies to value firms that benefit from the free availability of bank loans.
Now there's a sequence to it but it all has to happen, in effect if I can summarise it, you have to have an end to violence before you can begin negotiations but you have to have negotiations in a political context in order to maintain a cessation of violence.
But Archbishop Welby was making a related though different qualitative point - to the effect that the UK is in one helluva mess (to use an ecclesiastical term).
But his own ruling party would still, in effect, be able to block an opponent.
The saliva flow can lead to an antacid effect in the stomach.
In 1997 IBM harnessed the effect to produce an ultrasensitive disk drive that could pack 2.7 gigabytes of data into a square inch.
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