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... set apart.
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
And at length our inventories become a regular part of everyday living, rather than something unusual or set apart.
2.
... set apart
one night a week for ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
In addition to these casual get-togethers, it became customary to set apart one night a week for a meeting to be attended by
anyone or everyone interested in a spiritual way of life.
3.
... set apart
that, if necessary, they can ...
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
Secondary aids to A.A., such as clubs or hospitals which require much property or administration, ought
to be incorporated and so set apart that, if necessary, they can be freely discarded by the groups.
4.
... set apart
that, if necessary, they can ...
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Secondary aids to A.A., such as clubs or hospitals which require much property or administration, ought
to be incorporated and so set apart that, if necessary, they can be freely discarded by the groups.
5.
... set aside
for A.A. in the wills ...
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
They pointed out that the Foundation board already knew of a total of half a million dollars set aside for A.A. in the wills of people still alive.
6.
... set aside
for that purpose.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
The consideration of long-standing difficulties had better
be postponed, when possible, to times deliberately set aside for that purpose.
7.
... set by
imagination as it tried to ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
When such thoughts break in, we might recall, a
little ruefully, how much store we used to set by imagination as it tried
to create reality out of bottles.
8.
... set down
are guides to progress.
BB p.60,
How It Works
9.
... set down
its experience in a book ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
Nevertheless, the infant Society determined to set down its experience in a book which
finally reached the public in April 1939.
10.
... set down
on the table and forthwith ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
It was the day before Mother's Day and I had come home plastered, carrying a big potted plant which I set down on the table and forthwith went upstairs and passed out.
11.
... set foot
on the road to straight ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Only by discussing ourselves, holding back nothing, only by being willing to take advice and accept direction could we
set foot on the road to straight thinking, solid honesty, and genuine humility.
12.
... set forth
serious violations of moral principles.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
To those having religious training, such a list would set forth serious violations of moral principles.
13.
... set his
other ambitions aside, at whatever ...
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
In the radiance of such a
miraculous discovery, any doctor would set his other ambitions aside, at whatever personal cost.
14.
... set in
as the recovered alcoholics carried ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
With the publication of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous" in 1939, the pioneering period ended and a prodigious chain reaction set in as the recovered alcoholics carried their
message to still others.
15.
... set in
conflict not only with ourselves, ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
In these ways we are set in conflict not only with ourselves, but with other
people who have instincts, too.
16.
... set in
motion trains of circumstances which ...
BB p.67,
How It Works
17.
... set in
personal authority over another, that ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
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?
18.
... set in
reverse all at once.
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
19.
... set of
conceptions and motives begin to ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
Ideas, emotions, and attitudes which were once
the guiding forces of the
lives of these men are suddenly cast to one side, and a completely new set of conceptions and motives begin to dominate them.
20.
... set of
conditions.
12&12 p.87,
Step Nine
But all of them do require a complete willingness
to make amends as fast and as far as may be possible in a given set of conditions.
21.
... set of
traditional principles, having no legal ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
How can a set of traditional principles, having no legal force at all, hold the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous
in unity and effectiveness?
22.
... set of
voices cry that sex is ...
BB p.68,
How It Works
23.
... set on
a path which tells him ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
He has been set on a path
which tells him he is really going somewhere, that life is not
a dead end, not something to be endured
or mastered.
24.
... set on
his feet financially which, at ...
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
Had he been successful in his enterprise, he would have been set on his feet financially which, at the time, seemed vitally important.
25.
... set on
my feet.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
26.
... set opposite
each name our injuries.
BB p.65,
How It Works
27.
... set our
hearts on getting a particular ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
For example, we may set our
hearts on getting a particular person sobered up, and after doing all we can for months, we see him relapse.
28.
... set out
to convince ourselves it isn't ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
When, however, the perfectly logical assumption is suggested that underneath the material
world and life as we see it, there is an All Powerful, Guiding, Creative Intelligence, right
there our perverse streak comes to the surface and we laboriously set out to convince ourselves it isn't so.
29.
... set out
to tell those he feared ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
One morning he took the bull by the horns and set out to tell those he feared what his trouble had been.
30.
... set prayers
which emphasize the principles we ...
BB p.87,
Into Action
If not members of religious bodies, we sometimes select and memorize a few set prayers which emphasize the principles we have been discussing.
31.
... set right.(*)
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
32.
... set right
any new mistakes as we ...
BB p.84,
Into Action
This thought brings us to
Step Ten, which suggests we continue to
take personal inventory and continue
to set right any new mistakes as we go along.
33.
... set right
the wrong.
BB p.77,
Into Action
34.
... set something
by for old age?
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
How could we ever take care of those awful debts, possess a decent home, educate the kids, and set something by for old age?
35.
... set the
ball rolling?
BB p.67,
How It Works
36.
... set their
approval upon us.
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Since Dr. Silkworth's first endorsement of Alcoholics Anonymous,
medical societies and
physicians throughout the world have
set their approval upon us.
37.
... set their
approval upon us, and wish ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
Employers learn that great corporations have
set their approval upon us, and wish to discover what can be done
about alcoholism in their own firms.
38.
... set their
feet in the path that ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
I have seen hundreds of families set their feet in the path that really goes somewhere; have seen the
most impossible domestic situations righted; feuds and bitterness of all sorts wiped out.
39.
... set them
on paper.
BB p.64,
How It Works
40.
... set them
on the right track without ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
41.
... set these
matters straight.
BB p.67,
How It Works
42.
... set things
right.
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
We had to begin to make our
peace, and so we listed the
people we had harmed and
became willing to set things right.
43.
... set to
work almost frantically upon alcoholics ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
Hence the two men set to work almost frantically upon alcoholics arriving in
the ward of the Akron City Hospital.
44.
... set up
a disastrous chain reaction.
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
Compared to this prospect, the ten thousand dollars under consideration
wasn't much, but like the alcoholic's first drink it would, if taken, inevitably set up a disastrous chain reaction.
45.
... set up,
telephones installed, and a few ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
To save whole areas from turmoil, small offices had to be set up, telephones installed,
and a few full-time secretaries hired.
46.
... set us
thinking.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
47.
... set your
heart on reforming your husband.
BB p.111,
To Wives
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