From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... chances are
good at this stage.
BB p.113,
To Wives
2.
... chances are
he will not for, like ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
3.
... chances are
he will offer you any ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
If you ask him why he started on that last bender, the chances are he will offer you any one of a hundred alibis.
4.
... chances are
he would.
BB p.112,
To Wives
The chances are he would.
5.
... chances are
less than average.
BB p.58,
How It Works
6.
... chances are
that he has become convinced ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
By now, though, the chances are that he has become convinced that he has more
problems than alcohol,
and that some of these refuse to be solved by all the sheer personal determination and courage he can muster.
7.
... chances are
that our own actions are ...
BB p.83,
Into Action
8.
... chances are
that we have domestic troubles.
BB p.80,
Into Action
9.
... chances are
that you will be in ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
10.
... chances for
material and emotional security as ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
In such a case, this imperious urge can destroy his chances for material and emotional
security as well as his standing in the community.
11.
... chances for
really happy and useful living.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
12.
... chances it
may afford us to be ...
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Perhaps we think of our day's work and the chances it may afford us to be useful and helpful, or of
some special problem
that it may bring.
13.
... chances of
smuggling some home that evening, ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This would lessen my chances
of smuggling some home
that evening, which in turn
would mean a night of futile tossing around in bed followed by a morning of
unbearable jitters.
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