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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
THREATENED occurs
6 times
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1.
... threatened.
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
His
whole philosophy of
life, in which he so
gloried, is
threatened.
2.
... threatened.
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
It should be
remembered that this
kind of
insecurity may
arise in any
area where
instincts are
threatened.
3.
... threatened.
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
But in
relation to us, it
means very
simply that every
A.A. group can
manage its affairs exactly as it
pleases,
except when
A.A. as a
whole is
threatened.
4.
... threatened.
BB p.65,
How It Works
5.
... threatened, and
that was no laughing matter.
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
We were
grim because we
felt
our
lives and
homes were
threatened, and that was no
laughing matter.
6.
... threatened, to
be envious when the ambitions ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Unreasonable fear that
our
instincts will not be
satisfied drives us to
covet the
possessions of
others, to
lust for
sex and
power, to
become angry when our
instinctive demands are
threatened, to be
envious
when the
ambitions of others
seem to be
realized while
ours are not.
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