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ABILITY occurs
21 times
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1.
... ability.
BB
Bill's Story, p.13
I was to
right all
such matters to the
utmost of my
ability.
2.
... ability.
12&12
Step Twelve, pp.123-124
3.
... ability and
both my father and mother ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.171
4.
... ability and
his knowledge of alcoholism.
12&12
Tradition Six, p.158
5.
... ability, by
God's grace, to take these ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.114
6.
... ability, good
sense, and high character.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.26
7.
... ability of
each A.A. to identify himself ...
12&12
Contents (Tradition Five), p.10
The
ability of
each A.A. to
identify himself with and
bring recovery to the
newcomer is
a
gift from
God...
passing on this
gift to
others is our
one aim.
8.
... ability of
each A.A. to identify himself ...
12&12
Tradition Five, p.150
9.
... ability, or
of his own strong personal ...
BB
To Employers, p.137
10.
... ability our
suggested Twelve Steps to recovery, ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.174
11.
... ability to
accept conditions I cannot change?
12&12
Step Four, p.52
12.
... ability to
be fair-minded and tolerant evaporates ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.91
When we
speak or
act hastily or
rashly, the
ability to be
fair-
minded and
tolerant evaporates on the
spot.
13.
... ability to
carry A.A.'s message.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.111
14.
... ability to
control our drinking.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.30
We
alcoholics are
men and
women who have
lost the
ability to
control our
drinking.
15.
... ability to
cope with life.
12&12
Step Four, p.48
But all who are in the
least reasonable will agree upon one point: that there is
plenty wrong with us
alcoholics about which
plenty will have to be
done if we are to
expect sobriety,
progress, and
any real ability to
cope with
life.
16.
... ability to
elect all the directors of ...
BB
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.575
17.
... ability to
help other people as we ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.102
18.
... ability to
recover?
BB
To Employers, p.143
Can you have
every confidence in his
ability to
recover?
19.
... ability to
think?
BB
We Agnostics, p.54
Did we not have
confidence in our
ability to
think?
20.
... ability to
think, I went carefully over ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.41
21.
... ability to
think straight, be called anything ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.37
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