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1.
... authority.   12&12 p.134, Tradition Two
In either case, the group now has a so-called rotating committee, very sharply limited in its authority.

2.
... authority.   12&12 p.173, Tradition Nine
Surely, the people there would have to have some authority.

3.
... authority.   12&12 p.191, Tradition Seven (Long)
Experience has often warned us that nothing can so surely destroy our spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money, and authority.


4.
... authority.   BB p.564(566), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
Experience has often warned us that nothing can so surely destroy our spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money, and authority.

5.
... authority -- a loving God as He may ...   12&12 p.132, Tradition Two
"For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority -- a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.

6.
... authority -- a loving God as He may ...   12&12 p.189, Tradition Two (Long)
Two -- For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority -- a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.


7.
... authority -- a loving God as He may ...   BB p.562(564), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
Two -- For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority -- a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.


8.
... authority -- a loving God as He may ...   BB p.563(565), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority -- a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.

9.
... authority and the spirit of service, two ...   12&12 p.174, Tradition Nine
It is the difference between the spirit of vested authority and the spirit of service, two concepts which are sometimes poles apart.


10.
... authority for A.A. world services should always ...   BB p.574, Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)   Display entire Appendix VII
I. Final responsibility and ultimate authority for A.A. world services should always reside in the collective conscience of our whole Fellowship.

11.
... authority from their titles; they do not ...   12&12 p.192, Tradition Nine (Long)
They derive no real authority from their titles; they do not govern.


12.
... authority from their titles; they do not ...   BB p.565(567), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
They derive no real authority from their titles; they do not govern.

13.
... authority in A.A. is a loving God ...   12&12 p.132, Tradition Two
These practical folk then read Tradition Two, and learn that the sole authority in A.A. is a loving God as He may express Himself in the group conscience.

14.
... authority may easily divert us from our ...   12&12 p.190, Tradition Six (Long)
Six -- Problems of money, property, and authority may easily divert us from our primary spiritual aim.


15.
... authority may easily divert us from our ...   BB p.563(565), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
6. Problems of money, property, and authority may easily divert us from our primary spiritual aim.

16.
... authority over another, that nothing like a ...   12&12 p.16, Foreword
Why is it, they ask, that in A.A. no member can be set in personal authority over another, that nothing like a central government can anywhere be seen?


17.
... authority over others; that it reach all ...   BB p.575, Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)   Display entire Appendix VII
XII. The Conference shall observe the spirit of A.A. tradition, taking care that it never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power; that sufficient operating funds and reserve be its prudent financial principle; that it place none of its members in a position of unqualified authority over others; that it reach all important decisions by discussion, vote, and, whenever possible, by substantial unanimity; that its actions never be personally punitive nor an incitement to public controversy; that it never perform acts of government, and that, like the Society it serves, it will always remain democratic in thought and action.

18.
... authority than its own conscience.   12&12 p.189, Tradition Four (Long)
Four -- With respect to its own affairs, each A.A. group should be responsible to no other authority than its own conscience.


19.
... authority than its own conscience.   BB p.563(565), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
4. With respect to its own affairs, each A.A. group should be responsible to no other authority than its own conscience.

20.
... authority; they result from his personal disobedience ...   12&12 p.174, Tradition Nine
His drunkenness and dissolution are not penalties inflicted by people in authority; they result from his personal disobedience to spiritual principles.

21.
... authority to govern it, no treasurer who ...   12&12 p.132, Tradition Two
When told that our Society has no president having authority to govern it, no treasurer who can compel the payment of any dues, no board of directors who can cast an erring member into outer darkness, when indeed no A.A. can give another a directive and enforce obedience, our friends gasp and exclaim, "This simply can't be. There must be an angle somewhere."

22.
... authority to run everything begins to be ...   12&12 p.133, Tradition Two
Very soon, though, his assumed authority to run everything begins to be shared with the first alcoholics he has helped.

23.
... authority to some of its members to ...   12&12 p.172, Tradition Nine
Doesn't nearly every society on earth give authority to some of its members to impose obedience upon the rest and to punish or expel offenders?


24.
... authority well defined.   BB p.575, Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)   Display entire Appendix VII
X. Every service responsibility should be matched by an equal service authority, with the scope of such authority well defined.


25.
... authority whose duty it is to receive ...   BB p.74, Into Action   Go to page 74 in the Big Book
Those of us belonging to a religious denomination which requires confession must, and of course, will want to go to the properly appointed authority whose duty it is to receive it.


26.
... authority, with the scope of such authority ...   BB p.575, Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)   Display entire Appendix VII
X. Every service responsibility should be matched by an equal service authority, with the scope of such authority well defined.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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