From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
DETERMINED occurs
7 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... determined and persistent trial.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
Then it is
explained that other
Steps of the
A.A. program can be
practiced
with
success only when
Step
Three is
given a
determined and
persistent trial.
2.
... determined objective and for the perfect objective ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
So the
difference between "the
boys and the
men" is the
difference between
striving for a
self-
determined objective and for
the
perfect objective
which is of
God.
3.
... determined that your husband's drinking is not ...
BB p.111,
To Wives
Be
determined that your
husband's
drinking is not
going to
spoil your
relations with your
children or your
friends.
4.
... determined to depend completely upon a stronger ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
5.
... determined to die.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
6.
... determined to reform America's drinking habits.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
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.
7.
... determined to set down its experience in ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
Nevertheless, the
infant Society determined to
set down
its experience in a book which finally
reached the
public in
April 1939.
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