Usage examples (36)

• I believe they have certain ameliorating powers, in the face of unavoidable disaster, or, for that matter, petty annoyance.
• Yet the very success that Bernanke and Paulson (and later, the Obama administration) seem to have had in ameliorating the crisis may, over time, carry unintended...
• Armstead: Part of it is in how we manage our risk, which gets back to the idea of ameliorating the downside excursions.
• How can we talk of "ameliorating" the Land Laws which hand over nearly ninety percent of the land to 15 per cent of the population?