From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... run-around --
provided, of course, they are willing ...
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.
2.
... run away.
BB p.105,
To Wives
We have run away.
3.
... run down
by an early morning truck, ...
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
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
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
11.
... run on
ethics only; it has to ...
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
12.
... run on
self-will can hardly be a ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
The first requirement
is that we be convinced that any life run on self-will can hardly be a success.
13.
... run out
of liquor.
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not
stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.
14.
... 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.
15.
... run riot,
though he usually doesn't think ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme
example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn't think so.
16.
... run the
show ourselves.
BB p.76,
Into Action
We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves.
17.
... run the
whole show.'
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
18.
... run the
whole show; is forever trying ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
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.
19.
... 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.
20.
... 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.
21.
... 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?
22.
... run to
extremes.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
They run to extremes.
23.
... 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.
24.
... 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.
25.
... 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.
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