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... likely to
be aroused.
12&12
Step Four, p.44
If the pursuit of wealth
tramples upon people who happen to be in
the way, then anger, jealousy, and revenge are
likely to be aroused.
2.
... likely to
be far more specific than ...
12&12
Step Five, p.60
While the comment or advice of others may be by no means infallible, it is likely to
be far more specific than any direct guidance we may receive while we are still so inexperienced
in establishing contact with a Power greater than ourselves.
3.
... likely to
be his closest A.A. friend.
12&12
Step Three, p.39
4.
... likely to
be the husband. But many ...
BB
To Wives (Note), p.104
(*) Written in 1939, when
there were few women in A.A., this chapter assumes that the alcoholic in the home is
likely to be the husband.
But many of the suggestions given here may be adapted to help the person who lives with a woman alcoholic -- whether she
is still drinking or is
recovering in A.A. A further source of help is noted on page 121.
5.
... likely to
drink again, and anything is ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.130
6.
... likely to
entertain is one of resentment ...
BB
To Wives, p.118
Another feeling we are
very likely to entertain is one of resentment that love and loyalty could not cure our husbands of alcoholism.
7.
... likely to
find him reading the book ...
BB
To Wives, p.113
8.
... likely to
follow your suggestions.
BB
Working With Others, p.94
9.
... likely to,
for we understand ourselves so ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.38
We admit we have some of these symptoms, but we have not gone to the extremes you fellows did, nor are we likely to, for we understand
ourselves so well after what you have told us that
such things cannot happen again.
10.
... likely to
get far in any direction ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.127
He is not likely to get far in any direction if he fails to show unselfishness and
love under his own roof.
11.
... likely to
have fixed ideas about the ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.122
The alcoholic, his wife,
his children, his "in-laws", each one is likely to have fixed ideas about the family's attitude towards himself or herself.
12.
... likely to
have varied traits.
BB
How It Works, p.61
13.
... likely to
receive from Step Five?
12&12
Step Five, p.57
14.
... likely to
reveal the very defects the ...
12&12
Step Four, p.53
To these it can be suggested that a conscientious examination is likely to
reveal the very defects the objectionable questions are concerned
with.
15.
... likely to
rise up under later pressures ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.119
They need to be as sure as possible that no deep-lying emotional handicap in either will be likely to rise up under later pressures to cripple them.
16.
... likely to
say you rushed him.
BB
Working With Others, p.95
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