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... greatly affect
A.A. as a whole without ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Four (Long)
And no group, regional committee, or
individual should ever
take any action that might greatly affect A.A. as a whole without conferring with the trustees of the General Service Board.
2.
... greatly affect
A.A. as a whole without ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
And no group, regional committee, or
individual should ever
take any action that might greatly affect A.A. as a whole without conferring with the trustees of the General Service Board.
3.
... greatly handicapped.
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
Very earnestly we ask the press also, to observe this request, for otherwise we
shall be greatly handicapped.
4.
... greatly helped
by the late Dr. William ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
He had also been greatly helped by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, a New York specialist in alcoholism who is now accounted no less than a medical saint by A.A. members, and whose story of the early days of our Society appears in the next pages.
5.
... greatly in
fear that he might start ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
The broker had gone to Akron on a business venture which had collapsed, leaving him
greatly in fear that he might
start drinking again.
6.
... greatly indebted
to the doctor in attendance ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
We are greatly indebted to
the doctor in attendance there, for he, although it might prejudice his own work, has told us of his belief in ours.
7.
... greatly injure
A.A. as a whole, nor ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
In charting this enormous expanse of freedom, we found it necessary to post only two storm signals: A group ought not do anything which
would greatly injure A.A. as a whole, nor ought it affiliate itself with anything or anybody else.
8.
... greatly insulted
if called alcoholics, are astonished ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
Certain drinkers, who
would be greatly insulted
if called alcoholics,
are astonished at their inability to stop.
9.
... greatly puzzled.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
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