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... failed.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
2.
... failed.
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
3.
... failed.
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
I reasoned I was not so far
advanced as most of you fellows, that I had been usually successful in licking my other personal problems, and
that I would therefore be successful where you men
failed.
4.
... failed.
BB p.101,
Working With Others
5.
... failed.
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
While grateful that he drinks no more, they may not like the idea that God has accomplished the miracle where they failed.
6.
... failed.
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
This physician had repeatedly tried spiritual means to resolve his alcoholic dilemma but had failed.
7.
... failed before?
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
8.
... failed completely.
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
I personally know scores of cases who were of
the type with whom other methods had failed completely.
9.
... failed entirely
with his first half dozen ...
BB p.96,
Working With Others
10.
... failed my
law course.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
11.
... failed their
mission through self-seeking.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
If a group of doctors possessed a cancer cure, they might be conscience-stricken if
they failed their mission
through self-seeking.
12.
... failed to
do.
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
After the husband joins A.A., the wife may become discontented, even highly resentful that Alcoholics Anonymous
has done the very thing that all her years of devotion had failed to do.
13.
... failed to
enlarge his spiritual life.
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
14.
... failed to
fulfill their demands.
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
There will be those who have
drifted into indifference, those filled with self-sufficiency who have cut themselves off, those who
have become prejudiced
against religion, and
those who are downright
defiant because God has failed to fulfill their demands.
15.
... failed to
heed.
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
16.
... failed to
help my banker friend understand.
BB p.138,
To Employers
I wanted to throw up my hands in discouragement, for I saw that I had failed to help my banker friend understand.
17.
... failed to
hold us in check.
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
18.
... failed to
perfect and enlarge his spiritual ...
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he
could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead.
19.
... failed to
persuade my broker friends to ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
I failed to persuade my broker friends to send me out looking over factories and managements, but my wife
and I decided to go anyway.
20.
... failed to
practice the very precepts he ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
Perhaps your story will help him see where he has failed to practice the very precepts he knows so well.
21.
... failed to
recognize my truly exceptional abilities?
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
22.
... failed to
see that though adult in ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
We had failed to see that though adult in years we were still behaving childishly, trying to turn everybody -- friends, wives, husbands, even the world itself -- into protective
parents.
23.
... failed us?
BB p.68,
How It Works
24.
... failed us,
we could be understanding and ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
25.
... failed utterly.
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
26.
... failed, we
may chalk that up as ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Even when we have tried hard and failed, we may chalk that up as one of the greatest credits of all.
27.
... failed, work
with another alcoholic would save ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
This sometimes nearly
drove me back to drink, but I soon found that when all other measures failed, work with another alcoholic would save the day.
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