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... chance.
BB
Working With Others, p.96
He often says that if he had continued to work on them, he
might have deprived many others, who have since recovered, of their chance.
2.
... chance.
BB
To Employers, p.136
3.
... chance."
BB
To Employers, p.138
He has just returned from a
three-months leave of absence, has taken a cure, looks fine, and to clinch the matter, the board of directors told him this was his last chance."
4.
... chance.
BB
To Employers, p.138
He might have a chance.
5.
... chance.
BB
To Employers, p.147
6.
... chance.
BB
To Employers, p.148
7.
... chance.
BB
To Employers, p.148
We think we are sensible
when we urge that you stop this
waste and give your worthwhile man a chance.
8.
... chance.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.114
But when we are willing to place spiritual growth first -- then and only
then do we have a real chance.
9.
... chance at
A.A. was sometimes to pronounce ...
12&12
Contents (Tradition Three), p.10
10.
... chance for
legitimate security and a happy ...
12&12
Step Four, p.44
11.
... chance for
recovery!
BB
Into Action, p.73
Small wonder many in the medical profession have a low opinion of alcoholics and
their chance for recovery!
12.
... chance for
sobriety that we've had.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.139
13.
... chance for
sobriety would be some place ...
BB
Working With Others, p.101
His only chance for sobriety
would be some place like the Greenland Ice Cap, and even there an Eskimo might turn up with a bottle of scotch and ruin everything!
14.
... chance from
the moment it determined to ...
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.178
Maybe the society could have
survived the abolition
controversy, but it didn't have a chance from the moment it determined to reform America's drinking habits.
15.
... chance he
can recover by himself.
BB
Working With Others, p.92
16.
... chance if
we switch from "two-stepping" to ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.113
Well, we surely have a chance if we switch from "two-stepping" to "twelve-stepping," if we are
willing to receive that grace of God which can sustain and strengthen us
in any catastrophe.
17.
... chance of
accomplishing anything useful may be ...
BB
To Wives, p.111
If he gets the idea that you are
a nag or a killjoy, your chance of accomplishing anything useful may be zero.
18.
... chance of
becoming truly happy.
12&12
Step Seven, p.70
Nearly all A.A.'s have found, too, that unless they develop much more of this precious quality than may be required
just for sobriety, they still haven't much chance of becoming truly happy.
19.
... chance of
being helpful.
BB
How It Works, p.67
20.
... chance of
being helpful if you do.
BB
Working With Others, p.100
21.
... chance of
getting what we really wanted.
12&12
Step Seven, p.72
With a proper display of honesty and morality, we'd
stand a better chance of getting what we really wanted.
22.
... chance of
letting self-appointed members present themselves ...
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.187
We simply couldn't afford to
take the chance of letting self-appointed members present themselves as messiahs representing
A.A. before the whole public.
23.
... chance of
making foolish, perhaps tragic, blunders ...
12&12
Step Five, p.60
Surely, then, a novice ought not lay himself open to the chance of making foolish, perhaps tragic, blunders in this fashion.
24.
... chance of
recovery.
BB
To Wives, p.120
25.
... chance of
recovery.
BB
To Employers, p.145
26.
... chance of
success.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
27.
... chance of
understanding and accepting what we ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, pp.xxvi-xxvii
More often than not, it is imperative that a man's brain be cleared before he is approached, as
he has then a better chance of
understanding and accepting what we have to offer.
28.
... chance that
the head of the family ...
BB
Working With Others, p.97
Should they accept and practice spiritual principles, there is a much
better chance that the head of the family will recover.
29.
... chance to
right a serious wrong.
12&12
Step Nine, p.85
Or we may just procrastinate, telling
ourselves the time is not
yet, when in reality we have
already passed up many a fine
chance to right a serious wrong.
30.
... chance to
think it over.
BB
Working With Others, p.95
31.
... chance to
try our method, unless the ...
BB
To Wives, p.114
If he is already committed to an institution, but can convince you and your doctor
that he means business, give him a chance to try our method, unless the doctor thinks his mental condition too abnormal or
dangerous.
32.
... chance vanished.
BB
Bill's Story, p.5
33.
... chance was
sometimes to pronounce his death ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.141
At last experience taught us that to take away any alcoholic's full chance was sometimes to pronounce his death sentence, and often to condemn him to endless misery.
34.
... chance we
were given the power to ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.53
It is not by chance we were given the power to reason, to examine the evidence of our senses, and
to draw conclusions.
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