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... reasonable amount
of latitude will be helpful.
BB p.146,
To Employers
2.
... reasonable and
understandable that the question is ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
Of course, it is reasonable
and understandable that the question is often asked: "Why can't we take a specific and troubling dilemma straight to God, and in prayer secure from Him sure and definite answers to our requests?"
3.
... reasonable approach
and interpretation.
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
We agnostically inclined would not feel satisfied with a proposal which does not lend
itself to reasonable approach and interpretation.
4.
... reasonable assumption
as a starting point.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Simply because it is impossible to explain
what we see, feel, direct, and use, without a reasonable assumption as a starting point.
5.
... reasonable conception
whatever.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
6.
... reasonable (or
so it seemed at the ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
The moment we saw that we had
an answer for alcoholism, it was reasonable (or so it seemed at the
time) for us to feel that we
might have the answer to a lot of other things.
7.
... reasonable period.
BB p.137,
To Employers
Because of the employee's special ability, or of his own strong personal attachment to him, the employer has sometimes
kept such a man at work long beyond a reasonable period.
8.
... reasonable proportion
to the responsibility that each ...
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
IV. At all responsible levels, we ought to maintain a traditional
"Right of Participation," allowing a voting representation in reasonable proportion to the
responsibility that each must discharge.
9.
... reasonable --
that our resentments are the "right ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
Therefore we think our
indignation is justified and reasonable --
that our resentments are the "right kind."
10.
... reasonable, why
we think it more sane ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
Hence we are at pains to tell why we think our present faith is reasonable, why we think it more sane and logical to believe than not
to believe, why we say our former thinking was soft and mushy when we threw up our hands in doubt and said, "We don't know."
11.
... reasonable will
agree upon one point: that ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
But all who are in the least reasonable will agree upon one point: that there is plenty wrong with us alcoholics about which plenty will have to be done if we are to expect sobriety, progress, and
any real ability to cope with life.
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