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1.
... try.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.28
2.
... try.
BB
To Wives, p.111
You may be
unable to do so,
no
matter how
hard you
try.
3.
... try.
12&12
Tradition Five, p.153
I don't
even want to
try.
4.
... try.
12&12
Tradition Six, p.157
We of
Alcoholics Anonymous could not be all
things to all
men,
nor should we
try.
5.
... try again.
BB
Working With Others, p.96
6.
... try and
get them to see it!(*)
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
But
try and
get them to
see it!(*)
7.
... try and
help me and to help ...
12&12
Tradition Five, p.152
"
Still dubious, he
demanded, 'Do you
really mean the only
reason you are
here is to
try and
help me and to
help yourself?'
8.
... try as
best we know how to ...
12&12
Step Six, p.65
He
asks only that we
try as
best we
know how to
make progress in the
building of
character.
9.
... try beer
and wine?"
BB
There Is A Solution, p.20
"
Why don't you
try beer and
wine?"
10.
... try, exactly
how can he turn his ...
12&12
Step Three, p.35
No matter how
much one wishes to
try,
exactly how can he
turn his
own will and his
own life over
to the
care of
whatever God he
thinks there is?
11.
... try for
better things tomorrow will be ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.95
12.
... try hard
to seek them out.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.120
Yes --
whenever they
try hard to
seek them
out.
13.
... try, however
falteringly, to find and do ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.98
And we
will be
comforted
and
assured that our
own destiny in that
realm will be
secure for so
long as we
try, however
falteringly, to
find and do
the
will of our
own Creator.
14.
... try humility
in seeking the removal of ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
15.
... try it
by himself for once; maybe ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.144
"
Leave him
alone!
Let him
try it by
himself for
once;
maybe he'll
learn a
lesson!"
16.
Try it
more than once.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
17.
... try leaving
liquor alone for one year.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
18.
Try not
to condemn your alcoholic husband ...
BB
To Wives, p.108
Try not to
condemn your
alcoholic husband no matter what he
says or does.
19.
... try not
to indulge in cynicism over ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.132
20.
... try our
method, unless the doctor thinks ...
BB
To Wives, p.114
21.
... try our
program, for nothing will be ...
BB
To Wives, p.117
We
urge you to
try our
program, for
nothing will be so
helpful to your
husband as the
radically changed attitude toward him which
God will show you how to have.
22.
... try our
suggestions.
BB
To Wives, p.104
23.
... try repeatedly
Step Six on all his ...
12&12
Step Six, p.63
24.
... try some
controlled drinking.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
25.
... try some
more controlled drinking, bearing in ...
12&12
Step One, p.23
26.
... try the
old game again, for he ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.152
He
will presently try the
old game
again, for he isn't
happy
about his
sobriety.
27.
... try the
program, the process has begun.
12&12
Step Nine, p.83
The
moment we
tell our
families that we are
really
going to
try the
program, the
process has
begun.
28.
... try this.
12&12
Step Five, p.57
29.
... try this.
12&12
Tradition Two, p.134
Every one of them may be
promptly eliminated at
the
next election if they
try this.
30.
... try to
answer for you.
BB
To Wives, p.110
31.
... try to
arrange a man's life so ...
BB
To Wives, p.120
We
never,
never try to
arrange a
man's
life so as to
shield him from
temptation.
32.
... try to
ask for those right things ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.102
Having
opened our
channel
as
best we can, we
try to
ask for
those right things of which we and
others are in the
greatest need.
33.
... try to
avoid harming third parties, whoever ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.86
34.
... try to
be absolutely sure that we ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.87
Above all, we should
try to be
absolutely sure that we
are not
delaying because
we are
afraid.
35.
... try to
be humbly grateful and exert ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.124
36.
... try to
build.
12&12
Step Four, p.49
37.
... try to
bypass Step Five.
12&12
Step Five, p.55
So
intense,
though, is our
fear and
reluctance to do
this, that
many A.A.'s at
first try to
bypass Step Five.
38.
... try to
carry A.A.'s message.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.110
39.
... try to
change our plan.
BB
Into Action, pp.74-75
It is
important that he be
able to
keep a
confidence; that he
fully understand and
approve
what we are
driving at; that he
will not
try to
change our
plan.
40.
... try to
cover up those feelings of ...
12&12
Step Four, p.51
41.
... try to
discover where we have been ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.77
42.
... try to
do by what he called ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
This he would
try to do by what he
called self-
forgetting.
43.
... try to
do in the future.
BB
Into Action, p.79
He
told her what he would
try to
do in the
future.
44.
... try to
do much the same thing?
12&12
Step Eleven, p.100
45.
... try to
dominate the whole family, either ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.81
46.
Try to
drink and stop abruptly.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
47.
... try to
forget.
BB
To Wives, p.106
Next day they would be
themselves again and we
would
forgive and
try to
forget.
48.
... try to
give them advice about their ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.111
Perhaps we
try to
give them
advice about their
affairs which we
aren't really competent to
give or
ought not
give at all.
49.
... try to
give up our natural desires ...
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.187
50.
Try to
have him bring up the ...
BB
To Wives, p.111
Try to have him
bring up the
subject himself.
51.
... try to
have it.
12&12
Step Six, pp.65-66
The
best we can do, with all the
honesty that we can
summon, is
to
try to have it.
52.
... try to
have your husband read this ...
BB
To Wives, p.114
In
any event,
try to have your
husband read this
book.
53.
... try to
help him about getting a ...
BB
Working With Others, p.96
If he is, you might
try to
help
him about
getting a
job, or
give him a
little financial assistance.
54.
... try to
help other alcoholics achieve sobriety?
12&12
Step Twelve, p.111
55.
... try to
help other alcoholics when he ...
BB
Working With Others, p.94
56.
... try to
help others and who will ...
BB
Working With Others, p.90
You should be
described to him as
one of a
fellowship who, as
part of their
own recovery,
try to
help others and who
will be
glad to
talk to him if he
cares to
see you.
57.
... try to
help the wife of another ...
BB
To Wives, p.112
58.
... try to
hug the new treasure to ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.129
For a
time he may
try to
hug the
new treasure to
himself.
59.
... try to
increase the pleasure of those ...
BB
Working With Others, p.102
60.
... try to
live by self-propulsion.
BB
How It Works, p.60
61.
... try to
make our will conform with ...
12&12
Step Three, p.40
It is when we
try to
make our
will conform with
God's that we
begin to
use it
rightly.
62.
... try to
manipulate others to our own ...
12&12
Step Four, p.53
63.
... try to
move toward it.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.100
64.
... try to
pause and count your blessings.
BB
To Wives, p.119
65.
... try to
practice the A.A. program unless ...
12&12
Step One, p.24
66.
... try to
prove themselves exceptions to the ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
67.
... try to
put spiritual principles to work ...
BB
To Wives, p.116
68.
Try to
remember that though God has ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.133
69.
... try to
repair the damage immediately lest ...
BB
Working With Others, p.99
70.
... try to
see what its inner essence ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
71.
... try to
stop making unreasonable demands upon ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.93
72.
... try to
take advantage of your kindness.
BB
To Employers, p.141
73.
... try to
tell your story.
BB
Working With Others, p.91
Usually the
family should
not
try to
tell your
story.
74.
... try to
think it through a little ...
12&12
Step Six, p.66
Some who
feel they have
done well may
dispute this, so
let's
try to
think it
through a
little further.
75.
... try to
visualize how we might have ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.94
76.
... try with
a will, or else fall ...
12&12
Step Seven, pp.73-74
But
again we are
driven on by
the
inescapable conclusion which we
draw from
A.A. experience, that we
surely must try with a
will, or
else fall by the
wayside.
77.
... try, with
or without your cooperation, various ...
BB
To Wives, p.109
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