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

responsibility
responsible
responsive
REST   occurs   28 times 11 in BB  •  17 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
See also...   rests
resting
restitution
restless

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1.
  ... rest.  12&12 Step Three, p.37
Every such pressure group, if it is strong enough, self-righteously imposes its will upon the rest.


2.
  ... rest and to punish or expel offenders?  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.172
Doesn't nearly every society on earth give authority to some of its members to impose obedience upon the rest and to punish or expel offenders?


3.
  ... rest and treatment he will be able ...  BB To Employers, p.142
If he says yes, does he really mean it, or down inside does he think he is fooling you, and that after rest and treatment he will be able to get away with a few drinks now and then?


4.
  ... rest his nerves.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.39
Far from admitting he was an alcoholic, he told himself he came to the hospital to rest his nerves.


5.
  ... rest homes and farms for alcoholics, when ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.167
Even greater furors were provoked when A.A. members began to run rest homes and farms for alcoholics, when some hired out to corporations as personnel men in charge of the alcoholic problem in industry, when some became nurses on alcoholic wards, when others entered the field of alcohol education.


6.
  ... rest homes where badly beat-up topers could ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.170
Now and then, A.A. members have bought farms or rest homes where badly beat-up topers could find needed care.


7.
  ... rest I disregarded.  BB Bill's Story, p.11
For myself, I had adopted those parts which seemed convenient and not too difficult; the rest I disregarded.


8.
  ... rest of A.A.'s program as enthusiastically as ...  12&12 Step Two, p.27
To acquire it, I had only to stop fighting and practice the rest of A.A.'s program as enthusiastically as I could.


9.
  ... rest of his life.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.40
He was positive that this humiliating experience, plus the knowledge he had acquired, would keep him sober the rest of his life.


10.
  ... rest of his life and insists on ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.129
He may not see at once that he has barely scratched a limitless lode which will pay dividends only if he mines it for the rest of his life and insists on giving away the entire product.


11.
  ... rest of mankind some millennium of their ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.176
Others fell apart because of sheer self-righteousness while trying to enforce upon the rest of mankind some millennium of their own specification.


12.
  ... rest of the answer.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.178
Had they been left to themselves, and had they stuck to their one goal, they might have found the rest of the answer.


13.
  ... rest of the conversation our friend had ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.27
Let us tell you the rest of the conversation our friend had with his doctor.


14.
  ... rest of the folks on our brainpower ...  12&12 Step Two, p.29
Secretly, we felt we could float above the rest of the folks on our brainpower alone.


15.
  ... rest of the players in his own ...  BB How It Works, p.60
Each person is like an actor who wants to run the whole show; is forever trying to arrange the lights, the ballet, the scenery and the rest of the players in his own way.


16.
  ... rest of the players that these are ...  BB How It Works, p.61
Is it not evident to all the rest of the players that these are the things he wants?


17.
  ... rest of the program, they wondered why ...  BB Into Action, p.73
Having persevered with the rest of the program, they wondered why they fell.


18.
  ... rest of the Twelfth Step?  12&12 Step Twelve, p.109
Now, what about the rest of the Twelfth Step?


19.
  ... rest of the world would only behave; ...  BB How It Works, pp.61-62
He is like the retired business man who lolls in the Florida sunshine in the winter complaining of the sad state of the nation; the minister who sighs over the sins of the twentieth century; politicians and reformers who are sure all would be Utopia if the rest of the world would only behave; the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and the alcoholic who has lost all and is locked up.


20.
  ... rest of us had gone through.  12&12 Step One, p.23
They were spared that last ten or fifteen years of literal hell the rest of us had gone through.


21.
  ... rest of us had hit to the ...  12&12 Step One, p.23
It was obviously necessary to raise the bottom the rest of us had hit to the point where it would hit them.


22.
  ... rest of us were able to see ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.109
Looking at those who were only beginning and still doubted themselves, the rest of us were able to see the change setting in.


23.
  ... rest of us who, less fortunate, don't ...  12&12 Step Eleven, pp.98-99
But what about the rest of us who, less fortunate, don't even know how to begin?


24.
  ... rest on our laurels.  BB Into Action, p.85
It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels.


25.
  ... rest on our laurels.  12&12 Step Nine, p.85
We will want to rest on our laurels.


26.
  ... rest quietly with the thoughts of someone ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.100
We rest quietly with the thoughts of someone who knows, so that we may experience and learn.


27.
  ... rest to earn their livelihood in a ...  12&12 Tradition Six, p.155
We'd gather up derelicts from skid rows, sort out those who could get well, and make it possible for the rest to earn their livelihood in a kind of quarantined confinement.


28.
  ... rest upon how well and earnestly we ...  12&12 Step Three, p.34
In fact, the effectiveness of the whole A.A. program will rest upon how well and earnestly we have tried to come to "a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."


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