"instead" in the Big Book

We now see that when we began to drink deliberately, instead of casually, there was little serious or effective thought during the period of premeditation of what the terrific consequences might be.

I have a shadowy recollection of being in an airplane bound for New York, and of finding a friendly taxicab driver at the landing field instead of my wife.

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.

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.

Instead we let Him demonstrate, through us, what He can do.

Where were we at fault, what should we have done instead?

Instead, the problem has been removed.

But if you are shaky, you had better work with another alcoholic instead!

Attempt instead, to put yourself in his place.

Instead, you will capitalize them.

You, as well as your husband, ought to think of what you can put into life instead of how much you can take out.

Instead of treating the family as he should, he may retreat further into himself and feel he has spiritual justification for so doing.

Instead of developing new channels of activity for themselves, mother and children demand that he stay home and make up the deficiency.