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... beyond a
reasonable period.
BB p.137,
To Employers
Because of the employee's special ability, or of his own strong personal attachment to him, the employer has sometimes
kept such a man at work long beyond a reasonable period.
2.
... beyond doubt
by an immense experience, this ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
3.
... beyond human
aid.
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
4.
... beyond human
aid, and unless locked up, ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
When this sort of thinking
is fully established
in an individual with alcoholic tendencies,
he has probably placed
himself beyond human aid, and unless locked up, may die or go permanently insane.
5.
... beyond our
conception.
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
We doctors have realized for a long time that some form of moral psychology was of urgent importance to alcoholics, but its application presented
difficulties beyond
our conception.
6.
... beyond our
depth and ability.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
It mattered little whether we had sat on the shore of life drinking ourselves into
forgetfulness or had plunged in recklessly
and willfully beyond our
depth and ability.
7.
... beyond ourselves
was somewhat weak, even cowardly.
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
We were bothered with the thought that faith and dependence upon a Power beyond ourselves was somewhat
weak, even cowardly.
8.
... beyond prudent
reserves, to accumulate funds for ...
12&12 p.191,
Tradition Seven (Long)
Then, too, we view with much
concern those A.A. treasuries which continue, beyond prudent reserves, to accumulate funds for no stated A.A. purpose.
9.
... beyond prudent
reserves, to accumulate funds for ...
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Then too, we view with much concern those A.A. treasuries which continue, beyond prudent reserves, to accumulate funds for no stated A.A. purpose.
10.
... beyond question.
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
11.
... beyond recall
in a few years.
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
Potential female alcoholics often turn into the real thing and are gone beyond recall in a few years.
12.
... beyond the
point where we could quit ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
As we look back, we feel we had gone on drinking many years beyond the point where we could quit on our
will power.
13.
... beyond the
shadow of a doubt.
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
14.
... beyond their
mental control.
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
These men were not drinking
to escape; they were drinking to overcome a craving beyond their mental control.
15.
... beyond their
usual capability.
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
16.
... beyond those
things which were superficially wrong ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
We can go far beyond those things which were superficially wrong
with us, to see those flaws which were basic, flaws which sometimes were
responsible for the whole pattern of our lives.
17.
... beyond which
we shall seek all those ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
Let us look now upon the sea and ponder what its mystery is; and let us lift our eyes to the far horizon, beyond which we shall seek all those wonders still unseen.
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