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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

aversion
avert
avocation
AVOID   occurs   24 times 17 in BB  •  7 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
avoided
avoiding
awaiting

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1.
  ... avoid a place where there is drinking, ...  BB Working With Others, p.101
So our rule is not to avoid a place where there is drinking, if we have a legitimate reason for being there.


2.
  Avoid answering these inquiries as much as ...  BB To Wives, p.115
Avoid answering these inquiries as much as you can.


3.
  ... avoid disagreement or contention.  BB To Wives, p.118
If your husband is trying to live on a spiritual basis, he will also be doing everything in his power to avoid disagreement or contention.


4.
  ... avoid drawing on our small capital.  BB Bill's Story, p.3
I had had some success at speculation, so we had a little money, but we once worked on a farm for a month to avoid drawing on our small capital.


5.
  ... avoid extreme judgments, both of ourselves and ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.82
We should avoid extreme judgments, both of ourselves and of others involved.


6.
  ... avoid falling into confusion over the names ...  12&12 Step Four, p.48
To avoid falling into confusion over the names these defects should be called, let's take a universally recognized list of major human failings -- the Seven Deadly Sins of pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.


7.
  ... avoid harming third parties, whoever they may ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.86
And even in those cases where such a matter must be discussed, let's try to avoid harming third parties, whoever they may be.


8.
  ... avoid hysterical thinking or advice.  BB How It Works, p.70
We avoid hysterical thinking or advice.


9.
  ... avoid it.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.43
Had you offered yourselves as patients at this hospital, I would not have taken you, if I had been able to avoid it.


10.
  ... avoid looking at some of our own ...  12&12 Step Two, p.30
Moreover, we could avoid looking at some of our own shortcomings.


11.
  ... avoid meeting a man through his family.  BB Working With Others, p.91
When possible, avoid meeting a man through his family.


12.
  ... avoid moving pictures which show drinking scenes; ...  BB Working With Others, pp.100-101
People have said we must not go where liquor is served; we must not have it in our homes; we must shun friends who drink; we must avoid moving pictures which show drinking scenes; we must not go into bars; our friends must hide their bottles if we go to their houses; we mustn't think or be reminded about alcohol at all.


13.
  ... avoid quick-tempered criticism and furious, power-driven argument.  12&12 Step Ten, p.91
We must avoid quick-tempered criticism and furious, power-driven argument.


14.
  ... avoid retaliation or argument.  BB How It Works, p.67
We avoid retaliation or argument.


15.
  ... avoid sensational advertising.  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.565
We think A.A. ought to avoid sensational advertising.


16.
  ... avoid sensational advertising.  12&12 Tradition Eleven (Long), p.192
We think A.A. ought to avoid sensational advertising.


17.
  ... avoid the issue, hoping against hope we ...  BB We Agnostics, p.44
At first some of us tried to avoid the issue, hoping against hope we were not true alcoholics.


18.
  ... avoid the subject of drinking, even with ...  BB To Wives, p.114
You avoid the subject of drinking, even with your own parents.


19.
  Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture of misery, ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.133
Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture of misery, but if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize it as an opportunity to demonstrate His omnipotence.


20.
  ... avoid these responsibilities, but be sure you ...  BB Working With Others, p.97
Never avoid these responsibilities, but be sure you are doing the right thing if you assume them.


21.
  ... avoid these unnecessary difficulties.(*)  BB To Wives, p.121
That is why we are anxious that you understand, and that you avoid these unnecessary difficulties.(*)


22.
  ... avoid this humbling experience, they have turned ...  BB Into Action, p.72
Trying to avoid this humbling experience, they have turned to easier methods.


23.
  ... avoid those dangers of great wealth, prestige, ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.175
A.A. has to function, but at the same time it must avoid those dangers of great wealth, prestige, and entrenched power which necessarily tempt other societies.


24.
  Avoid urging him to follow our program.  BB To Wives, p.113
Avoid urging him to follow our program.


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