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

obligation
obligations
obligatory
OBLIGED   occurs   11 times 6 in BB  •  5 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
oblivion
obscure
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1.
  ... obliged in some cases still to say, ...  12&12 Step Six, p.69
Perhaps we shall be obliged in some cases still to say, "This I cannot give up yet...," but we should not say to ourselves, "This I will never give up!"


2.
  ... obliged to admit that our justification for ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.37
But even in this type of beginning we are obliged to admit that our justification for a spree was insanely insufficient in the light of what always happened.


3.
  ... obliged to admit that they prefer to ...  12&12 Step Six, p.68
But even these people, if they construct a list of still milder defects, will be obliged to admit that they prefer to hang on to some of them.


4.
  ... obliged to choose between the pains of ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
We are obliged to choose between the pains of trying and the certain penalties of failing to do so.


5.
  ... obliged to conform to group opinion.  12&12 Tradition Two, pp.135-136
One of the first members of A.A., entirely contrary to his own desires, was obliged to conform to group opinion.


6.
  ... obliged to discharge him for drinking, though ...  BB To Employers, p.137
I had been obliged to discharge him for drinking, though he was brilliant, alert, and one of the best organizers I have ever known.


7.
  ... obliged to put him away.  BB To Wives, p.110
Maybe you have already been obliged to put him away.


8.
  ... obliged to separate for a time until ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.125
Husbands and wives have sometimes been obliged to separate for a time until new perspective, new victory over hurt pride could be rewon.


9.
  ... obliged to talk to this man on ...  12&12 Tradition Five, p.153
"Now," concludes the oldtimer, "suppose I'd been obliged to talk to this man on religious grounds?


10.
  ... obliged to tell your husband's employer and ...  BB To Wives, p.115
Frequently, you have felt obliged to tell your husband's employer and his friends that he was sick, when as a matter of fact he was tight.


11.
  ... obliged to treat father as a sick ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.130
By force of circumstances, she was often obliged to treat father as a sick or wayward child.


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