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RUN   occurs   24 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... run-around -- provided, of course, they are willing ...   BB p.146, To Employers   Go to page 146 in the Big Book
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.


2.
... run away.   BB p.105, To Wives   Go to page 105 in the Big Book
We have run away.


3.
... run down by an early morning truck, ...   BB p.6, Bill's Story   Go to page 6 in the Big Book
I hardly dared cross the street, lest I collapse and be run down by an early morning truck, for it was scarcely daylight.

4.
... run everything begins to be shared with ...   12&12 p.133, Tradition Two
Very soon, though, his assumed authority to run everything begins to be shared with the first alcoholics he has helped.

5.
... run her husband into debt by irresponsibility, ...   12&12 p.51, Step Four
She can juggle charge accounts, manipulate the food budget, spend her afternoons gambling, and run her husband into debt by irresponsibility, waste, and extravagance.

6.
... run his life rigidly by this kind ...   12&12 p.103, Step Eleven
The A.A., or indeed any man, who tries to run his life rigidly by this kind of prayer, by this self-serving demand of God for replies, is a particularly disconcerting individual.


7.
... run his life so he will be ...   BB p.147, To Employers   Go to page 146 in the Big Book
He will appreciate knowing you are not bothering your head about him, that you are not suspicious nor are you trying to run his life so he will be shielded from temptation to drink.

8.
... run its business?   12&12 p.173, Tradition Nine
Who is more unpopular than the oldtime A.A., full of wisdom, who moves to another area and tries to tell the group there how to run its business?

9.
... run like this: Looking at both past ...   12&12 p.52, Step Four
Questioning directed to this end might run like this: Looking at both past and present, what sex situations have caused me anxiety, bitterness, frustration, or depression?

10.
... run nor to recriminate.   12&12 p.31, Step Two
We saw them calmly accept impossible situations, seeking neither to run nor to recriminate.

11.
... run on ethics only; it has to ...   12&12 p.137, Tradition Two
Sure, it's ethical, but what we've got won't run on ethics only; it has to be better.


12.
... run on self-will can hardly be a ...   BB p.60, How It Works   Go to page 60 in the Big Book
The first requirement is that we be convinced that any life run on self-will can hardly be a success.

13.
... run rest homes and farms for alcoholics, ...   12&12 p.167, Tradition Eight
Even greater furors were provoked when A.A. members began to run rest homes and farms for alcoholics, when some hired out to corporations as personnel men in charge of the alcoholic problem in industry, when some became nurses on alcoholic wards, when others entered the field of alcohol education.


14.
... run riot, though he usually doesn't think ...   BB p.62, How It Works   Go to page 62 in the Big Book
They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn't think so.


15.
... run the show ourselves.   BB p.76, Into Action   Go to page 76 in the Big Book
We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves.

16.
... run the whole show.'   12&12 p.153, Tradition Five
"'Well,' said I, 'I think you're just a conceited Irishman who thinks he can run the whole show.'


17.
... run the whole show; is forever trying ...   BB p.60, How It Works   Go to page 60 in the Big Book
Each person is like an actor who wants to run the whole show; is forever trying to arrange the lights, the ballet, the scenery and the rest of the players in his own way.

18.
... run their lives as though they were ...   12&12 p.115, Step Twelve
Where people had temporarily let us run their lives as though they were still children, we had felt very happy and secure ourselves.

19.
... run things without reference to the wishes ...   12&12 p.164, Tradition Seven
Foundation obtained money from outside sources, its trustees might be tempted to run things without reference to the wishes of A.A. as a whole.

20.
... run this group forever?   12&12 p.134, Tradition Two
Still more important, murmurs are heard in the body politic, which swell into a loud cry: "Do these oldtimers think they can run this group forever?


21.
... run to extremes.   BB p.125, The Family Afterward   Go to page 125 in the Big Book
They run to extremes.

22.
... run we clearly realize that these are ...   12&12 p.111, Step Twelve
But in the longer run we clearly realize that these are only the pains of growing up, and nothing but good can come from them if we turn more and more to the entire Twelve Steps for the answers.

23.
... run wild in themselves is the underlying ...   12&12 p.44, Step Four
Alcoholics especially should be able to see that instinct run wild in themselves is the underlying cause of their destructive drinking.

24.
... run wiser than any single leader.   12&12 p.135, Tradition Two
This is the experience which has led us to the conclusion that our group conscience, well-advised by its elders, will be in the long run wiser than any single leader.


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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