"basis" in the Big Book

Nothing would please us so much as to write a book which would contain no basis for contention or argument.

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.

But the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge.

To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alternatives to face.

But after a while we had to face the fact that we must find a spiritual basis of life —or else.

8/13/07 10:55 AM Page 50 Instead, we looked at the human defects of these people, and sometimes used their shortcomings as a basis of wholesale condemnation.

On that basis we are almost always in collision with something or somebody, even though our motives are good.

For we are now on a different basis; the basis of trusting and relying upon God.

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.

He subsequently denied having received the money and used the incident as a basis for discrediting the man.

The most incompatible people discover they have a basis upon which they can meet.

If their old relationship is to be resumed it must be on a better basis, since the former did not work.

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.

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.

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.

Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover.

Being on a radically different basis of life, he will never take advantage of the situation.

A spiritual experience, he conceded, was absolutely necessary, but the price seemed high upon the basis suggested.

Understanding our work, he can do this with an eye to selecting those who are willing and able to recover on a spiritual basis.