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Provided anonymity
was maintained on these platforms, ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
Provided anonymity was maintained on these platforms, and reporters present were cautioned against the use of names or pictures, the result was fine.
2.
... provided he
does not close his mind ...
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Most emphatically we wish to say that any alcoholic capable of honestly facing his problems in the
light of our experience
can recover, provided he
does not close his mind to
all spiritual concepts.
3.
... provided he
remains willing to maintain a ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
He can go anywhere on this
earth where other free men may go without disaster, provided he remains willing to maintain a certain simple attitude.
4.
... provided, however,
the alcoholic continues to demonstrate ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
These things will come to pass naturally and in good time provided, however, the alcoholic continues to
demonstrate that he can be sober, considerate, and
helpful, regardless
of what anyone says or does.
5.
... provided it
makes sense to him.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
6.
... provided, of
course, they are willing to ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
After your man has gone along without drinking for a few months, you may be able to make use of his services with other employees who are giving you the alcoholic
run-around -- provided, of course, they are willing to have a third party in the picture.
7.
... provided that
as a group they have ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
So confident of this had we become that the original statement of A.A. tradition carried this significant sentence:
"Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group provided that as a group they have no other affiliation."
8.
... provided that,
as a group, they have ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Three (Long)
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.
9.
... provided that,
as a group, they have ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.
10.
... provided that
we do not bring about ...
BB p.69,
How It Works
We must be willing to make amends where we have done harm, provided that we do not bring about
still more harm in so doing.
11.
... provided they
are firmly grounded in fact.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Nevertheless, the twentieth century readily accepts theories of all kinds, provided they are firmly grounded in fact.
12.
... provided they
are not alcoholic.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
13.
Provided they
were willing -- and many were ...
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
Provided they were willing
-- and many were -- why
shouldn't their membership be publicized, thereby encouraging others to join us?
14.
... provided we
placed humility first.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
By their example they showed us that humility and
intellect could be compatible, provided we placed humility first.
15.
... provided we
remember, and repeat to ourselves, ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
If at these points our emotional disturbance
happens to be great, we will more surely keep our balance, provided we remember, and repeat to ourselves, a particular prayer or phrase that has appealed to
us in our reading or meditation.
16.
... provided we
took other simple steps.
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
As soon as we admitted the
possible existence of
a Creative Intelligence, a Spirit
of the Universe underlying the totality
of things, we began to be
possessed of a new sense of power and direction, provided we took other simple steps.
17.
... provided what
we needed, if we kept ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
Being all powerful, He
provided what we needed, if
we kept close to Him and performed His work well.
18.
... provided with
this book.
BB p.147,
To Employers
19.
Provided you
hold back nothing, your sense ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
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