Sentence examples for through alcoholism from inspiring English sources

His father, Mervyn Ondaatje, was in the Ceylon light infantry and supervised a tea plantation before losing jobs through alcoholism ("My father was in tea and alcohol; he dealt in tea and he drank the alcohol").

Mr. Shepherd, who has been divorced twice and battled through alcoholism and drug abuse, lives in New Haven, getting by on Social Security and a Teamsters pension.

At the Garden of Allah hotel, Scott falls in love with gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, who nurses him through alcoholism and ailing health.

Much of "The Last Gladiators" follows Mr. Nilan from the let-down of his retirement, through alcoholism, painkiller abuse, heroin addiction and, finally, painful rehab.

"A generation of people have grown up thinking it's O.K. to talk about the hard stuff families go through — alcoholism, drug abuse and homelessness," she said.

And, in Phyllis Nagy's Never Land, at the Royal Court (then occuping the Ambassadors) in 1998, she gave a remarkable exhibition of emotional displacement as a woman moving through alcoholism to rain-drenched despair.

If my family hadn't supported me through my alcoholism, I don't know if I'd be here today.

Of course he still keeps in touch, is consulted informally by ex-colleagues, maintains political contact of a sort through the alcoholism commission, to which he was appointed two years ago by Gov. Mandel.

That realm of South Asian privilege took on a darker tinge in Lahiri's second collection, "Unaccustomed Earth," where the veneer of professional success was shot through with alcoholism, suicidal impulses and depression, especially among the women.

On This Unruly Mess I've Made, the track Kevin talks about the prescription drugs crisis currently tearing through the US ("First dealer was his mom's medicine cabinet / Got anxiety, better go and give him a Xanax"), while St Ides takes a nostalgic trip through teenage alcoholism ("I used to steal my daddy's cabernet / Never thought it would turn into a rattlesnake").

England winger Rachel Yankey was also dropped from the Euro 2009 squad but went on to set a new appearance record, surpassing England men's goalkeeper Peter Shilton, while record goalscorer Kelly Smith said in her autobiography she was indebted to Powell for helping her through her alcoholism.