There was no time for a gradual weaning away from the flesh; an immediate and drastic approach was necessary.
Yet the students are keen, and parents relieved to see their offspring weaned away from their unknowable online lives.
Instead, McAllen and other cities like it have to be weaned away from their untenably fragmented, quantity-driven systems of health care, step by step.
If Jamaica is to develop in a smart fashion, the report says, "a significant portion of residents will have to be weaned away from 50 years of automobile dependency".
But leaders of commerce and government need to be weaned away from the bottom-line, easy-answer mode of conducting business, and their responsibility should extend far beyond shareholder value or a personal agenda.
There is therefore a huge need for a change of attitudes across society starting, with how families regard and protect their women and how old traditional societies can be weaned away from male domination.
The cultural tone was set by the arts minister Richard Luce, who declared that many in the arts world had "yet to be weaned away from the welfare-state mentality" and that "the only test of our ability to succeed is whether we can attract enough customers".
They just want their next fix, not to be weaned away from their undeniable rights.
South Sudan must be weaned away from its reliance on destructive military solutions to political problems.
Al-Shabaab may be amenable to negotiations once the relentless drone attacks from America stop and once regional players can be weaned away from unsustainable militarised approaches.
Following weaning, neutrophil number increased in all calves (P < 0.001) but the increase was greater (P < 0.001) in calves weaned away from the dam than those weaned beside the dam.
