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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
HOLD occurs
22 times
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1.
... hold a
mortgage on dad, so big ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
The
family may
feel they
hold a
mortgage on
dad, so
big that no
equity should be
left for
outsiders.
2.
... hold a
position.
BB p.110,
To Wives
His
friends have
slipped
away, his
home is a
near-
wreck and he cannot
hold a
position.
3.
... hold back
nothing, your sense of relief ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
Provided you
hold back
nothing, your
sense of
relief will
mount from
minute to
minute.
4.
... hold good
for individuals with many different ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
5.
... hold his
nervousness in check.
BB p.109,
To Wives
He sometimes
drinks in the
morning and through the
day
also, to
hold his
nervousness in
check.
6.
... hold meetings
which were open to interested ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
Consequently, many
groups began to
hold meetings which were
open to
interested friends and the
public, so
that the
average citizen
could see for himself just what
A.A. was all about.
7.
... hold my
position, I could not possibly ...
BB p.141,
To Employers
I
know, in my
own particular case, that
nothing my
company could
have done would have
stopped me for, so
long as I was able to
hold my
position, I could not
possibly realize how
serious my
situation was.
8.
... hold of
a source of strength which, ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
In a very
real sense he has
been
transformed, because he has
laid hold of a
source of
strength which,
in one way or another, he had
hitherto denied himself.
9.
... hold of
A.A. principles with all the ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
But a few did, and when these
laid hold of
A.A. principles with all the
fervor with which the
drowning seize life preservers, they
almost
invariably got well.
10.
... hold on
father.
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
If the
family persists
in
criticism, this
fallacy may take a still
greater hold on
father.
11.
... hold on
to our old ideas and ...
BB p.58,
How It Works
Some of us have
tried to
hold
on to our
old ideas and the
result was
nil until we let go
absolutely.
12.
... hold ourselves
in complete readiness to go ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
If that is so, this
step may be
postponed, only, however, if we
hold ourselves in
complete readiness to go through with it at the
first opportunity.
13.
... hold ourselves
to the course of admitting ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
We shall
want to
hold
ourselves to the
course of
admitting the things we have done,
meanwhile forgiving the
wrongs done us,
real or
fancied.
14.
... hold the
Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous in ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
15.
... hold the
love of our children for ...
BB p.106,
To Wives
We have
tried to
hold the
love of our
children for
their
father.
16.
... hold their
faces up to the light.
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
In that
time nothing could
be seen but
two struggling,
nameless groups of
alcoholics trying to
hold their
faces up to the
light.
17.
... hold these
alcoholic people must have depth ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
The
message which can
interest and
hold these
alcoholic people
must have
depth and
weight.
18.
... hold, they
are a baffled lot.
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
Once this
malady has a
real
hold, they are a
baffled lot.
19.
... hold true
throughout the material world.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
20.
... hold up
their heads and be like ...
BB p.105,
To Wives
Our
loyalty and the
desire that our
husbands
hold up their
heads and be
like other
men have
begotten all
sorts of
predicaments.
21.
... hold us
in check.
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
22.
... hold with
those who believe that alcoholism ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
I do not
hold with those who
believe that
alcoholism
is
entirely a
problem
of
mental control.
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