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

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BASIS   occurs   29 times 22 in BB  •  7 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... basis.  BB Into Action, p.76
As we look over the list of business acquaintances and friends we have hurt, we may feel diffident about going to some of them on a spiritual basis.


2.
  ... basis.  BB A Vision For You, p.162
Understanding our work, he can do this with an eye to selecting those who are willing and able to recover on a spiritual basis.


3.
  ... basis.  12&12 Contents (Step Twelve), p.9
Putting our lives on give-and-take basis.


4.
  ... basis.  12&12 Step Three, p.37
And everywhere the same thing is being done on an individual basis.


5.
  ... basis are not always easy alternatives to ...  BB We Agnostics, p.44
To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alternatives to face.


6.
  ... basis, but just as things are going ...  BB To Wives, p.120
Perhaps your husband will make a fair start on the new basis, but just as things are going beautifully he dismays you by coming home drunk.


7.
  ... basis depends upon the extent to which ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.34
Whether such a person can quit upon a nonspiritual basis depends upon the extent to which he has already lost the power to choose whether he will drink or not.


8.
  ... basis for contention or argument.  BB There Is A Solution, p.19
Nothing would please us so much as to write a book which would contain no basis for contention or argument.


9.
  ... basis for daily living, and we keenly ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.108
By this time, at Step Ten, we had begun to get a basis for daily living, and we keenly realized that we would need to continue taking personal inventory, and that when we were in the wrong we ought to admit it promptly.


10.
  ... basis for discrediting the man.  BB Into Action, p.80
He subsequently denied having received the money and used the incident as a basis for discrediting the man.


11.
  ... basis for helpful discussion.  BB The Family Afterward, p.127
As each member of a resentful family begins to see his shortcomings and admits them to the others, he lays a basis for helpful discussion.


12.
  ... basis, he will also be doing everything ...  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.


13.
  ... basis of a rapidly growing fellowship of ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
This has become the basis of a rapidly growing fellowship of these men and their families.


14.
  ... basis of intolerance?  12&12 Tradition Three, p.140
After all, isn't fear the true basis of intolerance?


15.
  ... basis of life, he will never take ...  BB To Employers, p.146
Being on a radically different basis of life, he will never take advantage of the situation.


16.
  ... basis of life -- or else.  BB We Agnostics, p.44
But after a while we had to face the fact that we must find a spiritual basis of life -- or else.


17.
  ... basis of living.  12&12 Step Seven, p.72
We never thought of making honesty, tolerance, and true love of man and God the daily basis of living.


18.
  ... basis of self-knowledge.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.39
But the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge.


19.
  ... basis of the technique of Alcoholics Anonymous ...  BB Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
The Episcopal magazine, The Living Church, observes editorially: "The basis of the technique of Alcoholics Anonymous is the truly Christian principle that a man cannot help himself except by helping others.


20.
  ... basis of trusting and relying upon God.  BB How It Works, p.68
For we are now on a different basis; the basis of trusting and relying upon God.


21.
  ... basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.76
Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration.


22.
  ... basis of wholesale condemnation.  BB We Agnostics, p.50
Instead, we looked at the human defects of these people, and sometimes used their shortcomings as a basis of wholesale condemnation.


23.
  ... basis or not, the alcoholic member has ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.135
Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover.


24.
  ... basis, since the former did not work.  BB Working With Others, p.99
If their old relationship is to be resumed it must be on a better basis, since the former did not work.


25.
  ... basis suggested.  BB A Vision For You, p.155
A spiritual experience, he conceded, was absolutely necessary, but the price seemed high upon the basis suggested.


26.
  ... basis; the basis of trusting and relying ...  BB How It Works, p.68
For we are now on a different basis; the basis of trusting and relying upon God.


27.
  ... basis upon which they can meet.  BB Working With Others, p.99
The most incompatible people discover they have a basis upon which they can meet.


28.
  ... basis we are almost always in collision ...  BB How It Works, p.60
On that basis we are almost always in collision with something or somebody, even though our motives are good.


29.
  ... basis; we would have to develop the ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.116
It became clear that if we ever were to feel emotionally secure among grown-up people, we would have to put our lives on a give-and-take basis; we would have to develop the sense of being in partnership or brotherhood with all those around us.


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