From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... hardly.
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
Well, hardly.
2.
... hardly accommodate
its weekly visitors, for they ...
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
Now, this house will hardly accommodate its weekly visitors, for they
number sixty or eighty as a rule.
3.
Hardly an
alcoholic we approached paid any ...
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
Hardly an alcoholic we approached paid any attention; most of those who did join us were like flickering candles in a windstorm.
4.
... hardly an
exception, will be absolutely unable ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
But the actual or potential alcoholic,
with hardly an exception,
will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge.
5.
... hardly be
a success.
BB p.60,
How It Works
The first requirement
is that we be convinced that any life run
on self-will can hardly be a success.
6.
... hardly be
human if we didn't.
BB p.69,
How It Works
We'd hardly be human if we
didn't.
7.
... hardly be
scratched.
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
If we keep on the way we are going there is little doubt that much good will result, but the surface of
the problem would hardly be
scratched.
8.
... hardly dared
cross the street, lest I ...
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
I hardly dared cross the street, lest I collapse and be run down by an early morning truck, for it was scarcely
daylight.
9.
... hardly draw
a sober breath.
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
Mercifully, no one could guess that I was to
have no real employment for five years, or hardly draw a sober breath.
10.
... hardly fail
to approve these simple principles, ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
They can hardly fail to approve these simple principles, though the head of the house still fails somewhat in practicing
them.
11.
... hardly have
been brought about by himself ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
He finally realizes
that he has undergone a profound alteration in
his reaction to life; that
such a change could hardly have been brought about by
himself alone.
12.
... hardly left
the hospital at all.
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
13.
Hardly one
of our crowd now shows ...
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
14.
... hardly one
of them, because of the ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
We doubt if many of them can
do it, because none will really want to stop, and hardly one of them, because of the peculiar mental twist already acquired, will find he can win out.
15.
... hardly recognize
them."
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
You would hardly recognize them."
16.
... hardly speak.
BB p.136,
To Employers
Not long afterward he had
called me from Hartford
on two successive days, so drunk he could hardly speak.
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