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... over.
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Bill's Story, pp.8-9
2.
... over.
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Working With Others, p.95
3.
... over.
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A Vision For You, p.158
He had been thinking it over.
4.
... over!
12&12
Step Seven, p.73
When we have finally admitted without reservation that we are powerless over alcohol, we are apt to breathe a great sigh of relief, saying, "Well, thank God that's over!
5.
... over.
12&12
Tradition Two, p.134
6.
... over.
12&12
Tradition Two, p.136
"I was bowled over.
7.
... over 117,748
groups. There is A.A. activity ...
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A Vision For You (Note), p.162
(*) Written in 1939. In 2016, there are over 117,748 groups. There is A.A. activity in approximately 180 countries, with an estimated membership of
over two million.
8.
... over 90
countries.
BB
Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
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.
9.
... over a
bout, an alcoholic, sometimes the ...
BB
To Employers, p.140
When drinking, or getting
over a bout, an alcoholic, sometimes the
model of honesty when normal, will do incredible things.
10.
... over a
highball.
BB
To Wives, p.110
11.
... over a
period of time.
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
Most of our experiences are what the psychologist William James calls the "educational variety" because they develop slowly over a period of time.
12.
... over a
seemingly tragic experience out of ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.132
Outsiders are sometimes shocked when we
burst into merriment over a seemingly tragic experience out of the past.
13.
... over a
spree, a certain amount of ...
BB
To Employers, pp.142-143
For most alcoholics who are drinking, or who are just getting over a spree, a certain amount of physical treatment is desirable,
even imperative.
14.
... over a
trifle.
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The Family Afterward, p.126
15.
... over a
very different snag.
12&12
Step Eight, p.79
16.
... over again.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.22
17.
... over again.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.121
18.
... over alcohol.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.26
19.
... over alcohol.
BB
Into Action, p.76
20.
... over alcohol,
and came to believe that ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
It is really saying to us
that we now ought to be willing to try humility in seeking the removal of our other shortcomings just as we did
when we admitted that we were powerless over alcohol, and came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity.
21.
... over alcohol,
but we also perceived that ...
12&12
Step Three, p.34
We saw that we were powerless over alcohol, but we also perceived that faith of some
kind, if only in A.A. itself, is possible to anyone.
22.
... over alcohol,
can be practiced with absolute ...
12&12
Step Six, p.68
Only Step One, where we made the 100 percent admission we were
powerless over alcohol, can be practiced
with absolute perfection.
23.
... over alcohol
is his first step toward ...
12&12
Step Seven, pp.72-73
Every newcomer in Alcoholics Anonymous is
told, and soon realizes for himself, that
his humble admission of
powerlessness over alcohol is his first step toward liberation from its paralyzing grip.
24.
... over alcohol
-- that our lives had become ...
BB
How It Works, p.59
25.
... over alcohol
-- that our lives had become ...
12&12
Contents (Step One), p.5
26.
... over alcohol
-- that our lives had become ...
12&12
Step One, p.21
27.
... over alcohol,
we are apt to breathe ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.73
When we have finally admitted without reservation that we are powerless over alcohol, we are apt to breathe a great sigh of relief, saying, "Well, thank God that's over!
28.
... over alcoholism.
BB
To Wives, p.114
29.
... over alcoholism
must remember he did much ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.127
We know there are difficult
wives and families, but the
man who is getting over alcoholism must remember he did much to make them so.
30.
... over-all public
relations and they guarantee the ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.565
They are authorized by the groups to handle our over-all public relations and they guarantee the integrity
of our principal newspaper, the A.A. Grapevine.
31.
... over an
outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth ...
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.177
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.
32.
... over and
over, and unless this person ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
This is repeated over and
over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery.
33.
Over and
over, he would say: "That's ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.157
34.
... over and
over will often enable us ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.103
Just saying it over and over will often enable us to clear a channel choked up with anger, fear, frustration, or misunderstanding, and permit us to return to the surest help of all -- our search for God's will, not our own, in the moment of stress.
35.
... over and
through him with the certainty ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.56
36.
... over, and
unless this person can experience ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
This is repeated over and
over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery.
37.
... over another,
that nothing like a central ...
12&12
Foreword, p.16
Why is it, they ask, that in A.A. no member
can be set in personal authority over another, that nothing like a central government can anywhere
be seen?
38.
... over-anxious, for
that might spoil matters.
BB
Working With Others, p.91
39.
Over any
considerable period we get worse, ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.30
40.
... over beams
in the cellar, and in ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
If my wife was planning to
go out in the afternoon, I would get a large supply of liquor and smuggle it home and hide it in the coal bin, the clothes chute, over door jambs, over beams in the cellar, and in cracks in the cellar tile.
41.
... over by
the mortgage holder, my mother-in-law ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.5
The house was taken over by the mortgage holder, my mother-in-law died, my wife and father-in-law became ill.
42.
... over-concentration on
financial success.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.127
43.
... over door
jambs, over beams in the ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
If my wife was planning to
go out in the afternoon, I would get a large supply of liquor and smuggle it home and hide it in the coal bin, the clothes chute, over door jambs, over beams in the cellar, and in cracks in the cellar tile.
44.
... over drinking
for good.
BB
To Wives, p.112
45.
... over drinking
until we have done our ...
BB
Into Action, p.77
Simply we tell him that we will never get over drinking until we have done our utmost to straighten out the past.
46.
... over drinking
will require a transformation of ...
BB
To Employers, p.143
47.
... over drinking,
you need not be alarmed.
BB
To Wives, p.120
48.
... over, eleven
new ones have been added, ...
BB
Preface, p.xii
Six of the stories in Part II have been carried over, eleven new ones have been added, and eleven taken out.
49.
... over factories
and managements, but my wife ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.2
I failed to persuade my broker friends to send me out looking over factories and managements, but my wife and
I decided to go anyway.
50.
... over fifteen
minutes.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
Wishing to be polite, though I felt very badly, I said, "Let's make the call," and extracted from my wife a promise that we would not stay
over fifteen minutes.
51.
... over from
the second edition; eight new ...
BB
Preface, p.xii
Nine of the stories in Part II ("They Stopped in Time") were carried over from the second edition; eight new stories were added.
52.
... over from
yesterday.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.102
Possibly today will see a continuation of a serious and as yet unresolved problem left over from yesterday.
53.
... over, he
would say: "That's me. That's ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.157
54.
... over his
house to be certain no ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.22
If he can afford it, he may have liquor concealed all over his house to be certain no one gets his entire supply away from him to throw down the wastepipe.
55.
... over his
life, he can readily get ...
12&12
Step Four, p.50
Looking back over his life, he can readily get under way by consideration of questions such as these:
56.
... over his
reduced status, whose judgment, fortified ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.135
The elder statesman is the
one who sees the wisdom of the group's decision, who holds no resentment over his reduced status, whose judgment, fortified by considerable experience, is sound, and
who is willing to sit quietly on the sidelines patiently awaiting developments.
57.
... over hurt
pride could be rewon.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.125
Husbands and wives have sometimes been obliged to
separate for a time until new perspective, new victory over hurt pride could be rewon.
58.
... over in
the other direction when, in ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.85
Or we may be tipped over in
the other direction when,
in rare cases, we get a cool and skeptical reception.
59.
... over-indulged.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.134
60.
... over-indulged.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.135
61.
... over into
tomorrow, making, of course, any ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.94
Here we need only recognize that we did act or think badly, try to visualize how we might
have done better, and resolve with God's help to carry these lessons over into tomorrow, making, of course, any amends still neglected.
62.
... over it.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.107
Step One showed us an amazing paradox: We found that we were
totally unable to be rid of the alcohol obsession until we first admitted that we were powerless over it.
63.
... over it,
and if you are interested, ...
BB
To Employers, p.147
64.
... over it,
you may already be asking ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.20
If you are an alcoholic who wants to get over it, you may already be asking -- "What do I have to do?"
65.
... over long
distance from Virginia.
BB
To Employers, p.137
66.
Over many
protests, these things were accomplished.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.161
67.
... over membership,
leadership, and money?
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xviii
68.
... over my
craving for liquor much during ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
Unlike most of our crowd, I
did not get over my craving for liquor much during the first two and one-half years of abstinence.
69.
... over night.
BB
Working With Others, p.100
70.
... over now.
BB
Bill's Story, p.8
But that was over now.
71.
... over one
hundred others appear to have ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
72.
... over others;
that it reach all important ...
BB
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.575
XII. The Conference shall observe the spirit of A.A. tradition, taking care that it never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power; that sufficient operating funds and reserve be its prudent financial principle; that it place none of its members in a position of unqualified authority
over others; that it reach all important decisions by discussion,
vote, and, whenever possible, by substantial
unanimity; that its actions never be personally punitive nor an incitement to public controversy; that
it never perform acts of government, and that,
like the Society it serves, it will always remain democratic in thought and
action.
73.
... over our
careers, and it has revealed ...
12&12
Step Five, p.55
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed
in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we
have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.
74.
... over people
and circumstances.
12&12
Step Ten, p.92
When temporary good fortune came our way, we indulged ourselves in fantasies of
still greater victories over people and circumstances.
75.
... over property,
money, and authority.
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.564
Experience has often warned us that nothing can so
surely destroy our spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money, and authority.
76.
... over property,
money, and authority.
12&12
Tradition Seven (Long), p.191
Experience has often warned us that nothing can so
surely destroy our spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money, and authority.
77.
... over-remorseful and
make many resolutions, but never ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
78.
... over such
matters.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.28
79.
... over that
chunk of money played havoc ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.161
80.
... over that
evening in Washington.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.41
81.
... over that
evening to meet a friend ...
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.
82.
... over the
amount you take, you are ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.44
If, when you honestly want
to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic.
83.
... over the
barrel, all right -- but where ...
12&12
Step Two, p.25
84.
... over the
Bridge of Reason toward the ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.53
85.
... over the
dam.
BB
Into Action, p.78
86.
... over the
first two or three high ...
12&12
Step Four, p.47
87.
... over the
group.
12&12
Tradition Four, p.149
88.
... over the
hypocrisy, bigotry, and crushing self-righteousness ...
12&12
Step Two, p.30
We gloated over the hypocrisy, bigotry, and crushing self-righteousness that clung
to so many 'believers' even in their Sunday best.
89.
... over the
idea that the Higher Power ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.75
We began to get over the idea that the Higher Power was a sort of bush-league pinch hitter, to be called upon only in an emergency.
90.
... over the
last ounce of food, our ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.128
91.
... over the
list of business acquaintances and ...
BB
Into Action, p.76
As we look over the list of business acquaintances and friends we have hurt, we may feel diffident about going to some of them on a spiritual basis.
92.
... over the
names these defects should be ...
12&12
Step Four, p.48
To avoid falling into confusion over the names these defects should be
called, let's take a universally recognized list of major human failings -- the Seven Deadly Sins of pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.
93.
... over the
NBC network, said, in part: ...
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
Dr. W. W. Bauer, broadcasting under the auspices of The American Medical Association in 1946, over the NBC network, said, in part: "Alcoholics Anonymous are
no crusaders; not a temperance society.
94.
... over the
sins of the twentieth century; ...
BB
How It Works, p.61
He is like the retired business man who lolls in the Florida sunshine in the winter complaining of the sad state of the nation; the minister who sighs over the sins of the twentieth century; politicians and reformers who are sure all
would be Utopia if the rest of
the world would only behave;
the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and
the alcoholic who has lost
all and is locked up.
95.
... over the
spectacular recovery of a brother ...
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.185
Enthusiastic over the spectacular recovery of
a brother alcoholic,
we'd sometimes discuss
those intimate and harrowing aspects of his case meant for his sponsor's ear alone.
96.
... over the
spree, he begins to think ...
BB
To Wives, p.109
But when he gets over the spree, he begins to think once more how he can drink moderately next time.
97.
... over the
state of the nations, nor ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.132
We try not to indulge in cynicism over the state of the nations, nor do we carry the world's troubles on our shoulders.
98.
... over the
threshold of that home into ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.160
Many a man, yet dazed from his hospital experience, has
stepped over the threshold of that home into freedom.
99.
... over the
world.
12&12
Step Three, p.38
100.
... over the
world.
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.169
Eight tons of books and literature per month do not package and channel themselves all over the world.
101.
... over the
world, statements just like this ...
12&12
Step Six, p.64
102.
Over the
years, every conceivable deviation from ...
12&12
Tradition Four, p.146
103.
... over the
years in the Big Book ...
BB
Preface, p.xii
All changes made over the years in the Big Book (A.A.
members' fond nickname for this volume)
have had the same purpose: to
represent the current membership of Alcoholics Anonymous more accurately, and thereby to reach more alcoholics.
104.
... over the
years past.
BB
How It Works, p.69
105.
... over them.
BB
We Agnostics, p.51
106.
... over them.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.126
107.
... over them
may bear witness to those ...
BB
How It Works, p.63
Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life.
108.
... over them,
too.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.122
When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too.
109.
... "Over There."
BB
Bill's Story, p.1
110.
... over there
on the hillside; there was ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.10
I could almost hear the sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance pledge I never signed; my grandfather's
good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his insistence that the spheres really had their music; but his denial of the preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness
as he spoke of these things
just before he died; these recollections
welled up from the past.
111.
... over to
a bookshelf and took up ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.143
112.
... over to
a Higher Power.
12&12
Step Three, p.38
So it is by circumstance rather than by any virtue that we have been driven
to A.A., have admitted defeat, have acquired the rudiments of faith, and now want to make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to a Higher Power.
113.
... over to
a newfound Providence, then what ...
12&12
Step Three, p.35
114.
... over to
get me.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
115.
... over to
God as we understood Him.
BB
How It Works, p.60
Being convinced, we were
at Step Three, which is that we
decided to turn our will and our life over to God as we understood Him.
116.
... over to
Higher Power.
12&12
Contents (Step Three), p.5
117.
... over to
the care of God as ...
BB
How It Works, p.59
118.
... over to
the care of God, as ...
12&12
Contents (Step Three), p.5
Step Three -- "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him."
119.
... over to
the care of God as ...
12&12
Step Three, p.34
120.
... over to
the care of God as ...
12&12
Step Three, pp.34-35
In fact, the effectiveness of the whole A.A. program will rest upon how well and earnestly we have tried to come to "a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."
121.
... over to
the care of God as ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.107
Consequently, in Step Three we turned our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
122.
... over to
the care of Something or ...
12&12
Step Three, p.36
If I keep on turning my life and my will over to the care of Something or Somebody else, what will become of me?
123.
... over to
the care of whatever God ...
12&12
Step Three, p.35
No matter how much one wishes to try, exactly how can he turn his own will and his own life over
to the care of whatever God he thinks there is?
124.
... over to
the care, protection, and guidance ...
12&12
Step Three, p.35
Isn't it true that in all matters touching upon alcohol, each of them has decided to turn his or her life over to the care, protection, and guidance
of Alcoholics Anonymous?
125.
... over to
the Higher Power?
12&12
Step Three, p.39
So how, exactly, can the willing person continue to turn his will and his life over to the Higher Power?
126.
... over to
the nearest barroom and try ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
127.
... over to
the undertaker or the asylum.
BB
Bill's Story, p.7
128.
... over two
million.
BB
A Vision For You (Note), p.162
(*) Written in 1939. In 2016, there are over 117,748 groups. There is A.A. activity in approximately 180 countries, with an estimated membership of
over two million.
129.
... over two
million have recovered through A.A.
12&12
Foreword (Note), p.15
130.
... over us.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.105
131.
... over us
all.
BB
Bill's Story, p.14
132.
... over us
all.
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.566
This to the end that our great
blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation
of Him who presides over us
all.
133.
... over us
all.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.125
For it is only by accepting and solving our problems that we
can begin to get right with ourselves and with
the world about us, and with Him who presides over us all.
134.
... over us
all.
12&12
Tradition Twelve (Long), p.192
This to the end that our great
blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation
of Him who presides over us
all.
135.
... over us:
first we were smitten by ...
12&12
Step One, p.22
The tyrant alcohol wielded a double-edged sword over us: first we were smitten by an insane urge that condemned us to go on drinking, and then by an allergy of the body that insured we would ultimately destroy ourselves in the process.
136.
... over what
other people are thinking and ...
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.
137.
... over when
he thinks of all the ...
12&12
Step Three, p.39
His financial insecurity worries him sick, and panic takes over when he thinks of all the bridges to
safety that alcohol burned behind him.
138.
... over which
we could not possibly have ...
BB
To Wives, p.118
At such moments we forget that alcoholism is
an illness over which we
could not possibly have had any power.
139.
... over will
often enable us to clear ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.103
Just saying it over and over will often enable us to clear a channel choked up with anger, fear, frustration, or misunderstanding, and permit us to return to the surest help of all -- our search for God's will, not our own, in the moment of stress.
140.
... over with
self-reliance and contentment.
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
From a trembling, despairing, nervous wreck, had emerged a man brimming over with self-reliance and contentment.
141.
... over your
drinking.
BB
To Employers, p.148
142.
... over your
head.
BB
To Wives, p.108
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