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... whose characteristics -- of age, gender, race, and ...   BB xxiii, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire Foreword to Fourth Edition
The stories added to this edition represent a membership whose characteristics -- of age, gender, race, and culture -- have widened and have deepened to encompass virtually everyone the first 100 members could have hoped to reach.

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... whose concerted work would depend the answer ...   12&12 p.150, Tradition Five
Alcoholics Anonymous can be likened to a group of physicians who might find a cure for cancer, and upon whose concerted work would depend the answer for sufferers of this disease.


3.
... whose duty it is to receive it.   BB p.74, Into Action   Go to page 74 in the Big Book
Those of us belonging to a religious denomination which requires confession must, and of course, will want to go to the properly appointed authority whose duty it is to receive it.


4.
... whose experience closely tallied with his own.   BB p.160, A Vision For You   Go to page 160 in the Big Book
Impressed by those who visited him at the hospital, he capitulated entirely when, later, in an upper room of this house, he heard the story of some man whose experience closely tallied with his own.


5.
... whose families have not returned at all.   BB p.100, Working With Others   Go to page 100 in the Big Book
We have seen men get well whose families have not returned at all.

6.
... whose final achievement is ruin.   12&12 p.37, Step Three
Plainly enough, it is a bone-crushing juggernaut whose final achievement is ruin.


7.
... whose hope is the maintenance and growth ...   BB p.66, How It Works   Go to page 66 in the Big Book
But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave.

8.
... whose judgment, fortified by considerable experience, is ...   12&12 p.135, Tradition Two
The elder statesman is the one who sees the wisdom of the group's decision, who holds no resentment over his reduced status, whose judgment, fortified by considerable experience, is sound, and who is willing to sit quietly on the sidelines patiently awaiting developments.


9.
... whose lives could have been saved, had ...   BB p.103, Working With Others   Go to page 103 in the Big Book
A spirit of intolerance might repel alcoholics whose lives could have been saved, had it not been for such stupidity.


10.
... whose lives touch the sufferer's.   BB p.18, There Is A Solution   Go to page 18 in the Big Book
It engulfs all whose lives touch the sufferer's.


11.
... whose membership is far above 150,000 recovered ...   BB xv, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
In that brief space, Alcoholics Anonymous has mushroomed into nearly 6,000 groups whose membership is far above 150,000 recovered alcoholics.


12.
... whose parents could not make out whether ...   BB p.158, A Vision For You   Go to page 158 in the Big Book
He proved to be a devil-may-care young fellow whose parents could not make out whether he wanted to stop drinking or not.


13.
... whose problem has been solved, as well ...   BB p.104, To Wives   Go to page 104 in the Big Book
Among us are wives, relatives and friends whose problem has been solved, as well as some who have not yet found a happy solution.


14.
... whose reactions are very different from ours.   BB p.20, There Is A Solution   Go to page 20 in the Big Book
We see that these expressions refer to people whose reactions are very different from ours.


15.
... whose shadow I had lived and shivered ...   BB p.12, Bill's Story   Go to page 12 in the Big Book
It melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years.


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... whose stories I have heard, there is ...   BB p.43, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 43 in the Big Book
As to two of you men, whose stories I have heard, there is no doubt in my mind that you were 100% hopeless, apart from divine help.


17.
... whose story of the early days of ...   BB xvi, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
He had also been greatly helped by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, a New York specialist in alcoholism who is now accounted no less than a medical saint by A.A. members, and whose story of the early days of our Society appears in the next pages.

18.
... whose support can be obtained.   12&12 p.181, Tradition Eleven
A worthy charity wants to raise money; forthwith, its letterhead shows the name of every distinguished person whose support can be obtained.

19.
... whose woes we have increased.   12&12 p.78, Step Eight
In many instances we are really dealing with fellow sufferers, people whose woes we have increased.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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