From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
INSTITUTION occurs
9 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... institution.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
2.
... institution.
BB p.103,
Working With Others
3.
... institution.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
Arrangements were also made with the
chief psychiatrist of a
large public hospital to
select still
others from the
stream of
misery which
flows through
that
institution.
4.
... institution.
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
A.A. had
become a
national institution.
5.
... institution after
another.
BB p.110,
To Wives
He has been
placed in one
institution after another.
6.
... institution, but
can convince you and your ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
If he is already
committed to an
institution, but can
convince
you and your
doctor that he
means business,
give him a
chance to
try our
method,
unless the
doctor thinks his
mental condition too
abnormal
or
dangerous.
7.
... institution; does
not wish to engage in ...
Grapevine,
Preamble
8.
... institution is
a better bet.
BB p.91,
Working With Others
Approach through a
doctor or an
institution is a
better bet.
9.
... institution of
marriage; who think that most ...
BB p.69,
How It Works
Then we have the
voices who
cry for
sex and more
sex; who
bewail the
institution of
marriage; who
think that most of the
troubles of the
race are
traceable to
sex causes.
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