By stating they are an addict they clearly communicate the abject suffering and out-of-controlness of the experience.
What I found more surprising than the NASCAR stats, though, was the abject shock from my green friends when I shared the information.
Coach Andy Flower has suggested changes could be made to England's batting line-up for The Oval following the abject, series-levelling defeat inside three days in the fourth Test.
They understand the abject horror that these people went through.
Andrew Neilson, of the Howard League for Penal Reform, argued that the plans represented "an admission of the abject failure of short-term prison sentences" and that the government should make greater use of community sentences.
People survived the abject poverty and international isolation of the last years of the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu - who ruled from 1965 to 1989 - with a diet of jokes, and alcohol, but very little open political dissent.
Two of the most abject victims of wikinomics are the newspaper and music industries.
The movie has the sort of dry, bracingly unwholesome humor that relentless mayhem can produce if the characters are mean and abject enough and the storytelling is speedy and laconic.
The following day, the outwardly respectable Daily Mail carried abject quotes from the MP on his doorstep, saying he knew nothing of his wife's actions, and could prove that he was separated from her.
In 1993, the embassy in Washington began lobbying Congress to approve hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance to the PA. And because the ideological and policy assumptions of the Oslo process have never been scrutinized despite the policy's abject failure, apparently, this remains the underlying policy assumption of the Foreign Ministry in its dealings with foreign governments, including the US Congress.
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Anything short of a ticker tape parade down the Canyon of Heroes in lower Manhattan is viewed as an abject failure in the eyes of the organization, the fans, the media and even the city of New York.
The irony is that Angola, where 70% of the people live in abject poverty, is rich.
Man oh man, is there anything more abject than the sound of a TV executive being disingenuous?
The woman prays in submission to Allah all the while noting her abject suffering in his name.
She praised the work of Mr Clegg and Mrs Spelman, as part of the European delegation, to prevent the summit reaching "abject failure".
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United won at Sunderland, though that may have had more to do with the home team's abject futility and, unsurprisingly perhaps, manager Martin O'Neill was let go a few hours after the final whistle.
But the senator has not forgotten his abject childhood in Pittsburgh (so poor that his father built the family home from used lumber).
Dr Whiteford described the EU's Common Fisheries Policy as an "abject failure", and criticised the fishing practices of Iceland and the Faroe Islands as "irresponsible".
The main call of bogus revolves around non-compliance among passengers and abject failure of enforcement in the plane.
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Eighty percent of the 8.7 million Haitians live in poverty and 54 percent live in abject poverty, according to the CIA's World Factbook.
China has uplifted more people out of abject poverty than the total number achieved by Europe and North America as a whole throughout the Industrial Revolution.
There is no smoke without fire, though: their abject defeat in the tournament final may not have been in doubt, but a question mark was placed next to the loss to India at old Trafford.
The most common argument for economic peace has its roots in the notion that there no real ideologues, only angry young men with no jobs, only societies where violence is sustained by the worthlessness of life in abject poverty.
It also deserves mention that the publication of this article represents an abject, egregious failure of peer-review and editorial competence at Food and Chemical Toxicology, the journal in which it appeared.
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Singling out the Football Association (FA), he accused it of an abject failure to do enough to tackle the issue.
It is incredibly clear that the current policy of TB control is an abject failure, so carrying on as we are is doomed to increase the size of any effective future badger cull.
And the coach acknowledged afterwards that his team has much to do to avoid defeat in South Africa, not least at the hands of England, and improve on their abject performance against an Irish side who have not qualified for the World Cup.
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All these conditions left the expelled in a state of abject penury after weeks of suffering.
Don Cowie also blazed into the stands as the hosts made light of their abject recent form.
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