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MEETING   occurs   23 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... meeting.   12&12 p.143, Tradition Three
At length the time came for him to speak in a meeting.

2.
... meeting.   12&12 p.163, Tradition Seven
One night in 1948, the trustees of the Foundation were having their quarterly meeting.


3.
... meeting (1944) of the Medical Society of ...   BB p.569(571), Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix III
Following are excerpts from the comments of doctors present at the annual meeting (1944) of the Medical Society of the State of New York where a paper on A.A. was read:


4.
... meeting a man through his family.   BB p.91, Working With Others   Go to page 91 in the Big Book
When possible, avoid meeting a man through his family.

5.
... meeting and blow his top over an ...   12&12 p.177, Tradition Ten
A corporation director who had just voted a company expenditure of a hundred thousand dollars would appear at an A.A. business meeting and blow his top over an outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps.


6.
... meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and ...   BB xxiv, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire Foreword to Fourth Edition
In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics.

7.
... meeting between a well-known surgeon and a ...   12&12 p.16, Foreword
Alcoholics Anonymous began in 1935 at Akron, Ohio, as the outcome of a meeting between a well-known surgeon and a New York broker.


8.
... meeting in approximately 150 countries around the ...   BB xxiii, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire Foreword to Fourth Edition
Since the third edition was published in 1976, worldwide membership of A.A. has just about doubled, to an estimated two million or more, with nearly 100,800 groups meeting in approximately 150 countries around the world.


9.
... meeting in over 90 countries.   BB xxii, Foreword to Third Edition   Display entire Foreword to Third Edition
By March 1976, when this edition went to the printer, the total worldwide membership of Alcoholics Anonymous was conservatively estimated at more than 1,000,000, with almost 28,000 groups meeting in over 90 countries.

10.
... meeting is an assurance that God will ...   12&12 p.33, Step Two
True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an assurance that God will restore us to sanity if we rightly relate ourselves to Him.

11.
... meeting night.   12&12 p.137, Tradition Two
"It was meeting night.


12.
... meeting of that year.   BB p.570(572), Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix III
The American Psychiatric Association requested, in 1949, that a paper be prepared by one of the older members of Alcoholics Anonymous to be read at the Association's annual meeting of that year.

13.
... meeting, or perhaps after we have finished ...   12&12 p.83, Step Nine
After coming from our first meeting, or perhaps after we have finished reading the book "Alcoholics Anonymous," we usually want to sit down with some member of the family and readily admit the damage we have done by our drinking.

14.
... meeting or to a single newcomer, it ...   12&12 p.166, Tradition Eight
When an A.A. talks for money, whether at a meeting or to a single newcomer, it can have a very bad effect on him, too.

15.
... meeting-place hat for group purposes.   12&12 p.160, Tradition Seven
It was soon apparent that while alcoholics would spend lavishly on Twelfth Step cases, they had a terrific aversion to dropping money into a meeting-place hat for group purposes.

16.
... meeting place, saying, "This is life for ...   12&12 p.173, Tradition Nine
Groups have tried to expel members, but the banished have come back to sit in the meeting place, saying, "This is life for us; you can't keep us out."

17.
Meeting places cost something.   12&12 p.161, Tradition Seven
Meeting places cost something.

18.
... meeting, sweeping every member to a single ...   12&12 p.143, Tradition Three
A great wave of outraged resentment engulfed the meeting, sweeping every member to a single resolve: "Out he goes!"

19.
... meeting that night was at New York's ...   12&12 p.163, Tradition Seven
"The meeting that night was at New York's old 24th Street Clubhouse.

20.
... meeting that sometimes the good is the ...   12&12 p.138, Tradition Two
'Bill, haven't you often said right here in this meeting that sometimes the good is the enemy of the best?


21.
... meeting to be attended by anyone or ...   BB p.159, A Vision For You   Go to page 159 in the Big Book
In addition to these casual get-togethers, it became customary to set apart one night a week for a meeting to be attended by anyone or everyone interested in a spiritual way of life.

22.
... meeting, we again try to carry A.A.'s ...   12&12 p.110, Step Twelve
If our turn comes to speak at a meeting, we again try to carry A.A.'s message.


23.
... meeting with an alcoholic friend who had ...   BB xvi, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
Six months earlier, the broker had been relieved of his drink obsession by a sudden spiritual experience, following a meeting with an alcoholic friend who had been in contact with the Oxford Groups of that day.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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