From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... standing.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
2.
... standing.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
3.
... standing damaged.
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
It was the usual situation: home in jeopardy, wife ill, children distracted, bills in arrears and standing damaged.
4.
... standing difficulties
had better be postponed, when ...
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.
5.
... standing in
the community.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
In such a case, this imperious urge can destroy his chances for material and emotional
security as well as his
standing in the community.
6.
... standing in
the community?
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
7.
... standing in
the ruins of his dream, ...
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
Even the chief architect, standing in the
ruins of his dream, could laugh at himself -- and that
is the very acme of humility.
8.
... standing melt
away in an hour.
BB p.78,
Into Action
Sometimes the man we are
calling upon admits his own fault, so feuds of years' standing melt away in an hour.
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