When they asked for some kind of ameliorative measures, we gave them none. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2008] Reference
Our government plays an important ameliorative role. From Wordnik.com. [You Can't Rush a Recovery] Reference
His mislabeling of destructive legislation as ameliorative. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
The south was brought into line more through ameliorative, less harsh measures. From Wordnik.com. [E. East Asia, to 1527] Reference
Surely FOX News will offer up some ameliorative reporting on the Speaker, right?. From Wordnik.com. [Midterm Roundup] Reference
Because I know that images like that have been a sort of ameliorative for my own wounds. From Wordnik.com. [Am I sick?] Reference
Still, from a feminist perspective, separatist practices are merely transitional and ameliorative. From Wordnik.com. [Feminist Perspectives on the Self] Reference
If lead really is still a substantial environmental hazard, then ameliorative measures make sense. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Responses to Comments] Reference
The ameliorative measures already mentioned have by no means prevented the boycott and the strike. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
Crisis work is primarily supportive and ameliorative—and highly valuable within these parameters. From Wordnik.com. [Planned Short-Term Treatment] Reference
Hopefully Mary Kate Hurley's paper on time in the Old English Orosius will have an ameliorative effect. From Wordnik.com. [De Breeze's First Theorem of Kalamazoo] Reference
I think we should be fairly cautious when evaluating the ameliorative effects of markets on discrimination. From Wordnik.com. [Obama on How Markets Reduce Racial Discrimination, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
But does it have to be so much so, or can some (different) public policy choices have an ameliorative effect?. From Wordnik.com. [Only Rep. Frank could go kill health care rationing… - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference
This relationship had no ameliorative affect, rather, it provided the equipment and skills used for repression. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. Groups Oppose Training of Indonesia's Notorious Kopassus Special Forces] Reference
In the meanwhile, a little ameliorative labor legislation was being passed by state legislatures and by Congress. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
But affirmative action was started mostly as an ameliorative measure to address the racial inequality in America. From Wordnik.com. [Wajahat Ali: Judicial Activism: Playing with the Constitution] Reference
It will be observed that from 1972 onwards, the government resorted to some selective ameliorative measures in the. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
But modern government's raison d'etre is to be therapeutic and ameliorative, removing the roughness and risk from life. From Wordnik.com. [Up From Geniality] Reference
I'd much prefer that we bend our imaginations to utopian or at least ameliorative concepts of history and the political. From Wordnik.com. [The “Do You Know What MySpace Is?” of its Day | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference
This ameliorative effect would be felt both on the federal level and in the states, where insidious laws would be negated. From Wordnik.com. ["From Interposition to Nullification: Peripheries and Center in the Thought of James Madison." Kevin Raeder Gutzman.] Reference
To afflict a private business with picketing and circus mess is far more likely to delay passage of any such ameliorative ordinances. From Wordnik.com. [Living Wage Protesters Arrested...Again at cvillenews.com] Reference
The bank says a somewhat improved Japanese economy and the ameliorative effect of last year's bad-loan provisions will help this year. From Wordnik.com. [Sobering Up Japan Banks] Reference
A par-for-the-course ameliorative move, considering the circumstances - which yet does nothing to address the underlying ethical issues. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Something Smells About The Chinese Corpses On Display In Seattle] Reference
Anyway, Wellstone only tentatively proposes an ameliorative program: "" I would not preclude restoring some progressivity to the income tax. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Political Unitarianism] Reference
“Her style has always been very ameliorative, very conscious of etiquette,” said Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, the sociologist and a longtime friend. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
According to the NASA/NOAA report, international environmental law has played an ameliorative role, albeit a limited one, in remedying the problem. From Wordnik.com. [Ozone troubles] Reference
Something "to go on with" is a great ameliorative, especially when one is hungry and tired. From Wordnik.com. [Roving East and Roving West] Reference
I did suffer from brain-fag on occasion, but alcohol never suggested itself as an ameliorative. From Wordnik.com. [John Barleycorn] Reference
Good governance is not gender-specific and ameliorative measures should be considered a work in progress. From Wordnik.com. [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference
This means that competition for the extra cash needed to mount ameliorative measures will now be especially tough. From Wordnik.com. [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
It is emotional, altruistic, at best ameliorative, aiming to meet the individual situation as it arises and presents itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Pivot of Civilization] Reference
We may hazard a guess that most of the programme of ameliorative measures was the work of Engels, and perhaps the final section. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles] Reference
If this culture is allowed to continue upon its current path, without some serious ameliorative efforts, it will, in all likelihood, kill itself. From Wordnik.com. [OlyBlog - 'We Are the Media'] Reference
Happily this will be a more lavish and ameliorative affair, in which the losing nominees are praised to the sky before being discreetly shown the door. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
However, when a defense attorney is acting in a manner which indicates problems which are beyond tactics a prosecutor should take some ameliorative steps. From Wordnik.com. [Crimlaw] Reference
While the more stately scientific and educational aspects just enumerated are slowly on their way, the artists must be up and about their ameliorative work. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of the Moving Picture] Reference
The rare visits of Roger, never highly ameliorative, were none the more so now; the grisly wrestling with realities does little to promote the exudation of balm. From Wordnik.com. [With the Procession] Reference
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