"If you drive through any city centre on a Friday or a Saturday night, you will be treated to the sight of young women wearing virtually nothing, drunk as owls, falling off pavements and thinking this is a normal way to spend a happy evening, with all the moral danger that entails.
I walked through Northamptonshire recently and they spilled from virtually every copse like drunk revellers being kicked out at closing time.
Virtually all the characters are power-drunk self-seekers, their loyalties temporary, their principles and consciences easily appeased.
It's illegal to serve someone who is drunk in a pub, but virtually everyone who is drunk gets served.
I've drunk limoncello and eaten focaccia on virtually every cafe terrace, slurped gelato perched on piers and rocks, and sipped local white wine in tiny trattorias, all the while deliberating which town is my favourite.
Now that the situation has shifted, economists at the Australia & New Zealand Banking Group wrote in a recent report, the region is "facing the consequences of having drunk too readily from an abundance of virtually free credit".
Aged Havana Club rum is drunk exceptionally well at the Hotel Nacional, in spaces preserved virtually intact in all their glorious 1930s splendor.
The Constitution requires "effective" assistance of counsel, the court has said, but it has set the bar for "effectiveness" so low that virtually anyone with a law degree satisfies it, even if they are unprepared, inexperienced, drunk or asleep.
The contractor, Andrew J. Campanelli, a Garden City lawyer, said he prosecuted 3,211 cases and that virtually all resulted in the vehicle becoming the property of the county or of a lienholder, not of the drunk driver.
