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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FAVOR occurs
8 times
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1.
... favor and
hadn't an enemy in the ...
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
His
connection with
A.A.
would be
valuable, because the
Fellowship stood high in
public favor and hadn't an
enemy in the
world.
2.
... favor by
keeping him on.
BB p.141,
To Employers
You are not doing him a
favor by
keeping him on.
3.
... favor hospitalization
for the alcoholic who is ...
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
Though we
work out our
solution on the
spiritual as well as an
altruistic plane, we
favor hospitalization for
the
alcoholic who is very
jittery or
befogged.
4.
... favor of
the foolish idea that he ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
Yet all
reasons for not
drinking were
easily pushed aside in
favor of the
foolish idea that he could take
whiskey if only he
mixed it
with
milk!
5.
... favor of
those suggested by A.A.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Already a
willingness has been
achieved to
cast out one's
own will and one's
own ideas about the
alcohol problem in
favor of those
suggested by
A.A.
6.
... favor such
memberships.
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
Not all of us
join religious bodies, but most
of us
favor such
memberships.
7.
... favor, we
can truly thank God for ...
12&12 p.95,
Step Ten
Having so
considered our
day, not
omitting to take
due note of things well done, and
having
searched our
hearts with neither
fear nor
favor, we can
truly thank God for the
blessings we have
received and
sleep in
good conscience.
8.
... favor we
stood with most of them.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
But the
prospect of
actually visiting or even
writing the people
concerned now
overwhelmed us,
especially when we
remembered in what
poor
favor we
stood with most of
them.
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