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... both A.A.
and the public.
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
The board would be isolated, and would fall under heavy attack of criticism from
both A.A. and the public.
2.
... both alcoholic
and nonalcoholic, to use the ...
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
Instead, the Washingtonians permitted politicians
and reformers, both alcoholic and nonalcoholic, to use the
society for their own purposes.
3.
... both among
fellow alcoholics and before the ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
Moved by the spirit of anonymity, we try to give up our natural desires for personal distinction
as A.A. members both among fellow alcoholics and before the general public.
4.
... both as
its director of publicity and ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
The association wanted to use our member's full name in all its advertising; he was to be described both as its director of publicity and as a member
of Alcoholics Anonymous.
5.
... both cases,
we had been asking something ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
6.
... both classifications.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
7.
... both family
and friends.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Going to the extreme, he
can become a miser, or even a recluse who denies himself both family and friends.
8.
Both father
and mother were considerably above ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
9.
Both father
and the family are mistaken, ...
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
10.
... both gin
and sedative.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
11.
Both his
pride and his fear beat ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
12.
... both home
and business.
BB p.143,
To Employers
We all had to place recovery above everything, for without
recovery we would have lost both home and business.
13.
... both humanitarian
and business, in the well-being ...
BB p.149,
To Employers
14.
... both in
deportment and scholastically.
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
15.
... both in
the bodily and mental sense, ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
We are equally positive
that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system,
something happens,
both in the bodily and mental sense, which makes it virtually impossible for him to stop.
16.
... both legs.
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
17.
... both like
parties which would be dull ...
BB p.110,
To Wives
18.
... both my
father and mother were most ...
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My father was a professional man of recognized ability and
both my father and mother were most active in church affairs.
19.
... both of
ourselves and of others involved.
12&12 p.82,
Step Eight
20.
Both of
them blame each other and ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
21.
Both of
you will awaken to a ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
22.
... both parties.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
23.
... both past
and present, what sex situations ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
Questioning directed to this end might run like this: Looking at both past and present, what sex situations have caused me anxiety, bitterness, frustration, or depression?
24.
... both practice
and humility, they had deluded ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Lacking both practice and humility,
they had deluded themselves and were able to
justify the most arrant
nonsense on the ground
that this was what God had told
them.
25.
... both propositions.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
26.
Both saw
that they must keep spiritually ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
27.
... both show
a willingness to remedy your ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
If you both show a willingness to remedy
your own defects, there will be little need to criticize each other.
28.
... both, so
that I did not touch ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I think I must have been thoroughly scared by what
had happened, or by the doctor, or probably both, so that I did not touch a drink again until the country went dry.
29.
... both sobriety
and peace of mind will ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the following conclusions: that his character defects, representing instincts gone astray, have been the primary cause of his drinking and his failure
at life; that unless he is
now willing to work hard at the elimination of the worst
of these defects, both sobriety and peace of mind will still elude him; that all the
faulty foundation of
his life will have to be torn out and built anew on bedrock.
30.
... both take
an interest in them.
BB p.112,
To Wives
31.
... both the
just and the unjust.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Even the suggestion of
such a thing never fails to whip up a hurricane, and we have discovered that hurricanes have a way of mauling with equal severity both the just and the unjust.
32.
... both the
visitors burst into a laugh.
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
33.
... both, then
the following suggestions may be ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
If your decision is yes, whether the reason be humanitarian or business or both, then the following suggestions
may be helpful.
34.
... both ways
have proved bitterly disappointing, they ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
Since both ways have proved bitterly disappointing, they have concluded there is no place whatever for them to
go.
35.
Both were
severe cases of alcoholism and ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
Both were severe cases of alcoholism and
were destined to become
co-founders of the A.A. Fellowship.
36.
... both will
decide that the way of ...
BB p.82,
Into Action
It may be that both will decide that the way of good sense and loving kindness is to let by-gones be by-gones.
37.
Both you
and the new man must ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
38.
... both you
and your husband will be ...
BB p.117,
To Wives
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