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... meet.
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxii
2.
... meet.
BB
Working With Others, p.99
3.
... meet a
friend of hers who might ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
About this time a lady called up my wife one Saturday afternoon saying she wanted me to come over that evening to meet a friend of hers who might help me.
4.
... meet an
occasional emergency, but at first ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.96
To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us
to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit.
5.
... meet and
transcend their other pains and ...
12&12
Step Two, p.31
6.
... meet and
work together?
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xviii
The test that it faced was
this: Could these large numbers of erstwhile erratic alcoholics successfully meet and work together?
7.
... meet any
emergency.
12&12
Step Seven, p.70
Without it, they cannot live
to much useful purpose, or, in adversity,
be able to summon the faith that can meet any emergency.
8.
... meet conditions,
whatever they were.
12&12
Step Four, p.47
9.
... meet frequently
so that newcomers may find ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.15
10.
... meet God
alone than with one who ...
BB
How It Works, p.63
11.
... meet life's
responsibilities with his own resources, ...
12&12
Step Four, p.43
12.
... meet my
problems as He would have ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.13
I was to sit quietly when in
doubt, asking only for direction and strength to
meet my problems as He would
have me.
13.
... meet other
difficulties of life.
12&12
Foreword, pp.15-16
Many people, nonalcoholics, report
that as a result of the practice of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, they have been able to meet other difficulties of life.
14.
... meet our
incessant demands.
12&12
Step Four, p.53
If we lean too heavily on people, they will sooner or later fail us, for they are human, too,
and cannot possibly meet our
incessant demands.
15.
... meet our
newly recognized responsibilities to the ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.112
16.
... meet some
of us as you trudge ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.164
We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit,
and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny.
17.
... meet such
conditions.
BB
Working With Others, p.97
18.
... meet; suppose
we suggest how they may ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.123
Suppose we tell you some of
the obstacles a family will meet; suppose we suggest how they
may be avoided -- even converted to good use for others.
19.
... meet the
acid test: how well does ...
12&12
Step Three, p.37
This brave philosophy, wherein each man plays God, sounds good in the speaking, but it still has to meet the acid test: how well does it actually work?
20.
... meet the
most stubborn resistance or, worse ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.173
He and all like him who "view
with alarm for the good of A.A." meet the most stubborn resistance or,
worse still, laughter.
21.
... meet their
needs.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.20
Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others and how we
may help meet their needs.
22.
... meet them,
still has an alcoholic mind; ...
BB
Working With Others, p.101
An alcoholic who cannot meet them, still has an alcoholic mind; there is something the matter with
his spiritual status.
23.
... meet these
calamities which come to so ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.113
Have we alcoholics in A.A.
got, or can we get, the resources to meet these calamities which come to so
many?
24.
... meet these
conditions every day.
BB
Working With Others, p.101
25.
... meet these
new friends in your own ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.152
26.
... meet these
responsibilities.
BB
To Employers, p.137
Nearly every modern employer feels a moral responsibility for the well-being of his help, and he tries to meet these responsibilities.
27.
... meet upon
the common ground of tolerance, ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.122
28.
... meet us
more than halfway on the ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.84
Even our severest and most
justified critics will frequently meet us more than halfway on the first trial.
29.
... meet your
friends.
BB
To Wives, p.114
If your husband is a drinker, you probably worry over what other people are thinking and you hate to meet your friends.
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