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... likely to
be aroused.
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
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 p.60,
Step Five
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 p.39,
Step Three
4.
... likely to
be the husband.
BB p.104,
To Wives (Note)
(*) 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.
5.
... likely to
drink again, and anything is ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
6.
... likely to
entertain is one of resentment ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
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 p.113,
To Wives
8.
... likely to
follow your suggestions.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
9.
... likely to,
for we understand ourselves so ...
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
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 p.127,
The Family Afterward
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 p.122,
The Family Afterward
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 p.61,
How It Works
13.
... likely to
receive from Step Five?
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
14.
... likely to
reveal the very defects the ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
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 p.119,
Step Twelve
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 p.95,
Working With Others
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