As for the general interest in social amelioration, that is the worst sign of all. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
The Palestinians have shown nothing over the years if not a great willingness to reject short-term amelioration of living conditions on behalf of larger political principles. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Divide and Rule] Reference
There is therefore an amelioration of our circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
Touching by the sovereign for the amelioration of sundry diseases was. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Gaul, and scarcely one but brought a reform, -- a real amelioration of hardships. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
In general, the relations between capital and labor there have experienced notable amelioration. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
From Austria we learn the partial amelioration in private business of the financial difficulties. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
It contained, besides the idea of social amelioration, the even more grateful idea of municipal beautification. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
When this produced no results, he appointed a Committee, "for the amelioration of the condition of the peasants.". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Russia] Reference
Consequently gradual amelioration of social evils had necessarily to pass several trials during progress of reform. From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference
I grieved especially because it almost closed the door of hope for the amelioration of the condition of the freedmen. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Tahir Pasha divides the friendship of the Sultan with him, and will much assist any plans for the amelioration of the country. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
They walked through the rooms devoted to social amelioration; to the mental, physical and spiritual redemption of sordid lives. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
I cannot, however, refrain from observing, that legal provisions for the amelioration of slavery, are in general of little use. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
The aim of our beneficent Government is the improvement of the people in every station and the amelioration of their condition. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Our age doubts absolutely the virtues of blind submission and resignation, and cries out instead for prevention and amelioration. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
Compassion involves the prevention or amelioration of pain; economic dynamism causes casualties -- the attrition of the least efficient. From Wordnik.com. [Up From Mercantilism] Reference
But this system of gradual amelioration, and peaceful development of ends that must come, did not satisfy the ambition of the conspirators. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Compassion, meaning the prevention or amelioration of pain, is the core value of contemporary liberalism, and hence of the Democratic Party. From Wordnik.com. [Political Dissonance] Reference
But, although present conditions are better than those of the past, the process of amelioration should be greatly advanced by this generation. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
In fact, the troops had all the discomforts of India without the conveniences commonly at hand in that country for the amelioration of its conditions. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
Frenchman should choose to accept all the conditions of his epoch, and embrace every opportunity of aiding in the task of correction and amelioration. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
One may make it the aim of one's life to remain slender, or may devote all one's energies to the amelioration of the social position of bald-headed men. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
So far from this being the case, the extinction of slavery, and the amelioration of those laws are as sincerely desired by us, as by any of the abolitionists. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
You do not get credit, really, for the averting of crises, or for their amelioration, and so the disconnect between the White House and the public begins there. From Wordnik.com. [Don’t Wait For a Thank You, Mr. President] Reference
If, then, any of our masculine friends now go to Congress on an amelioration of labor, Heaven speed the day when they can only go on an amelioration of lodgings. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
To crown all, there were the credit to myself in case of success, the amelioration of the native condition, however partial, and the benefit to commerce in general. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
The whole soul of this remarkable man seems devoted to the elevation of the masses -- the laboring classes -- the people -- and to the amelioration of their condition. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
And for this, in common with the pioneers in every cause that has for its object the amelioration and advantage of any class of human beings, they deserve the thanks of all. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Miss Mary Safford is a resident of this town, whose life since the beginning of the war, has been devoted to the amelioration of the soldier's lot, and his comfort in the hospitals. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
The foregoing was transmitted to me from a respectable correspondent in Liverpool, deeply engaged in the abolition of the slave trade, and the amelioration of the condition of slaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
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