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

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MAKES   occurs   19 times 13 in BB  •  6 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... makes a regular report at business meetings.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.134
Their treasurer, strictly accountable, takes money from the hat that is passed, banks it, pays the rent and other bills, and makes a regular report at business meetings.


2.
  ... makes a sole vocation of this work, ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.19
None of us makes a sole vocation of this work, nor do we think its effectiveness would be increased if we did.


3.
  ... makes an accurate and unsparing survey of ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.77
Every A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing survey of the human wreckage he has left in his wake.


4.
  ... makes an impossible list for Santa Claus.  12&12 Step Two, p.31
Sometimes it's because God has not delivered us the good things of life which we specified, as a greedy child makes an impossible list for Santa Claus.


5.
  ... makes for discord and unhappiness.  BB The Family Afterward, p.122
This makes for discord and unhappiness.


6.
  ... makes for more drinking.  BB Into Action, p.73
He is under constant fear and tension -- that makes for more drinking.


7.
  ... makes friends with everyone.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.39
He has so attractive a personality that he makes friends with everyone.


8.
  ... makes good sense.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
But as ex-problem drinkers, we can say that his explanation makes good sense.


9.
  ... makes it possible for us to receive ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.98
It is a step in the development of that kind of humility that makes it possible for us to receive God's help.


10.
  ... makes it virtually impossible for him to ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.22
We are equally positive that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system, something happens, both in the bodily and mental sense, which makes it virtually impossible for him to stop.


11.
  ... makes life seem so worth while to ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.124
Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now.


12.
  ... makes not the slightest difference with the ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.171
True, some of the projects to which A.A.'s have attached themselves have been ill-conceived, but that makes not the slightest difference with the principle involved.


13.
  ... makes sense.  BB A Vision For You, p.159
After a bit, he said, "The way you fellows put this spiritual stuff makes sense.


14.
  ... makes sense in the light of the ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.23
Sometimes these excuses have a certain plausibility, but none of them really makes sense in the light of the havoc an alcoholic's drinking bout creates.


15.
  ... makes sense to him.  BB Working With Others, p.93
He can choose any conception he likes, provided it makes sense to him.


16.
  ... makes that possible.  BB How It Works, p.62
God makes that possible.


17.
  ... makes the difference between failure and success.  BB Working With Others, p.98
That often makes the difference between failure and success.


18.
  ... makes the impasse worse.  BB The Family Afterward, pp.126-127
It is of little use to argue and only makes the impasse worse.


19.
  ... makes us feel superior to other people.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
Let us reemphasize that this reluctance to fight one another or anybody else is not counted as some special virtue which makes us feel superior to other people.


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