"beginning" in the Big Book

In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.

Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning.

We feel that elimination of our drinking is but a beginning.

He made a beginning.

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.

Instead of regarding ourselves as intelligent agents, spearheads of God’s ever advancing Creation, we agnostics and atheists chose to believe that our human intelligence was the last word, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and end of all.

This was only a beginning, though if honestly and humbly made, an effect, sometimes a very great one, was felt at once.

If you have already made a decision, and an inventory of your grosser handicaps, you have made a good beginning.

Remember it was agreed at the beginning we would go to any lengths for victory over alcohol.

Maybe he is beginning to lose his friends.

The chances are he will not for, like yourself, he is just beginning his development.

At the beginning of recovery a man will take, as a rule, one of two directions.

Beginning with such complaints, a barrier arises.

At the very beginning, the couple ought to frankly face the fact that each will have to yield here and there if the family is going to play an effective part in the new life.