From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... appear.
BB p.105,
To Wives
2.
... appear as
big setbacks at the time, ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
These will appear as big setbacks at the time, but will be seen later as stepping-stones to better things.
3.
... appear at
an A.A. business meeting and ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
A corporation director who had just voted a company expenditure of a hundred thousand dollars would appear at an A.A. business meeting and blow his top over an outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps.
4.
... appear at
hospitals and sanitariums.
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
5.
... appear before
civic organizations, church groups, and ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
Soon, groups began to receive requests for A.A. speakers to appear before civic organizations, church
groups, and medical societies.
6.
... appear somewhat
sentimental, let them stand with ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for
alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental,
let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the
most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged
this movement.
7.
... appear that
A.A. consists mainly of racking ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
We have been considering so many problems that it may
appear that A.A. consists mainly of racking dilemmas and troubleshooting.
8.
... appear that
A.A. was now backing education ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
9.
... appear to
be an impossible job from ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
We will want to be rid of some of these defects,
but in some instances this will appear to be an impossible job from which we
recoil.
10.
... appear to
be any kind of treatment ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
Neither does there appear
to be any kind of treatment which will make alcoholics of our kind like other men.
11.
... appear to
be in the nature of ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
12.
... appear to
be of extreme medical importance; ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
These facts appear to be of
extreme medical importance; because of
the extraordinary possibilities of rapid
growth inherent in this
group they may mark a new epoch in the annals of alcoholism.
13.
... appear to
have recovered.
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
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