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... makes a
regular report at business meetings.
12&12
Tradition Two, p.134
Their treasurer, strictly accountable, takes money from the hat that is passed, banks it, pays the rent and other bills, and makes a regular report at business meetings.
2.
... makes a
sole vocation of this work, ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.19
None of us makes a sole vocation of this work, nor do we think its effectiveness would be increased if we did.
3.
... makes an
accurate and unsparing survey of ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.77
Every A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing survey of the human wreckage he has left in his wake.
4.
... makes an
impossible list for Santa Claus.
12&12
Step Two, p.31
Sometimes it's because
God has not delivered us the
good things of life which we specified, as a
greedy child makes an impossible list for Santa Claus.
5.
... makes for
discord and unhappiness.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.122
6.
... makes for
more drinking.
BB
Into Action, p.73
7.
... makes friends
with everyone.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.39
8.
... makes good
sense.
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
9.
... makes it
possible for us to receive ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.98
It is a step in the development of that kind of
humility that makes it possible for us to receive
God's help.
10.
... makes it
virtually impossible for him to ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.22
We are equally positive
that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system, something happens, both in the bodily and mental sense, which makes it virtually impossible for him to stop.
11.
... makes life
seem so worth while to ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.124
Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now.
12.
... makes not
the slightest difference with the ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.171
True, some of the projects
to which A.A.'s have attached
themselves have been ill-conceived, but that makes not
the slightest difference with the principle involved.
13.
... makes sense.
BB
A Vision For You, p.159
14.
... makes sense
in the light of the ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.23
Sometimes these excuses
have a certain plausibility, but none of
them really makes sense in the light of the havoc an alcoholic's drinking bout creates.
15.
... makes sense
to him.
BB
Working With Others, p.93
16.
... makes that
possible.
BB
How It Works, p.62
17.
... makes the
difference between failure and success.
BB
Working With Others, p.98
18.
... makes the
impasse worse.
BB
The Family Afterward, pp.126-127
19.
... makes us
feel superior to other people.
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.177
Let us reemphasize that
this reluctance to fight
one another or anybody else is not counted as some special virtue which makes us feel superior to other people.
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