I believe they have certain ameliorating powers, in the face of unavoidable disaster, or, for that matter, petty annoyance.    From Wordnik.com.  [K. Zuckerman's Magic Rugelach] Reference

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 consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Final Days of Merrill Lynch] Reference

Armstead: Part of it is in how we manage our risk, which gets back to the idea of ameliorating the downside excursions.    From Wordnik.com.  [ETFs News and Commentary from Seeking Alpha] Reference

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?.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPEECH ON THE SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS, LUSAKA, JANUARY 8, 1972(1)] Reference

Garzon will focus his efforts on ameliorating the capital's social problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [A LEFTY TAKES BOGOTA] Reference

One, ameliorating the suffering and ensuring the welfare of the Iraqi people.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 5, 2003] Reference

All his energies were directed towards ameliorating the lot of his co-religionists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

But it will not do to expect too much from any ameliorating cause or chain of causes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference

And we have a strong interest in sort of ameliorating that problem in Afghanistan, as they do.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2007] Reference

I have seen the gradual working of what I call happiness and success in ameliorating character.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference

This shows that a lot is expected from Turkey in the way of ameliorating the situation in Afghanistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2001] Reference

The paper concludes that traditional farmers employ an impressive array of climate-ameliorating techniques.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Air pollution and agriculture.] Reference

The ecoregion is surrounded on three sides by water, yet this has little ameliorating effect on the climate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA)] Reference

Behring Straits, again admitting the Japan current to exert its ameliorating influence on the Arctic sections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Sketches from Oldest America] Reference

At present, ameliorating the climate of suspicion and confrontation in world politics is another pressing task.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political party internationals as guardians of democracy] Reference

By ameliorating their condition and gaining their good will, the sultans cannot fail to succeed in their reforms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Mr. Joseph A. Holmes also visited Europe for the purpose of studying methods of ameliorating conditions in the mines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171] Reference

He was made a baronet in 1840, and then devoted himself to a plan for ameliorating the condition of the African natives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

The problem with Kevorkian is that he is a circus sideshow who claims to be ameliorating suffering by performing euthanasia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lewis M. Cohen: You Still Won't Know Jack] Reference

U.S. Policy toward AfricaClinton stressed the importance of education in ameliorating the rampant poverty throughout Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary Of State Nominee] Reference

They were conscientious rulers, earnestly desirous of ameliorating the condition of the people they were called on to govern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference

Victoria -- are exercising a most beneficent and ameliorating influence on the charges of the enormously subsidized Northern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference

The official death toll was 82 as of last week, and even though cold weather is ameliorating the crisis, the number may yet climb.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bug Is Back] Reference

The party was absent about a month; and their report was entirely unfavourable to the project of carrying our "ameliorating system" so far.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2)] Reference

The apostles adopted and carried out the only practicable and effective means within their reach, of ameliorating the condition of servants.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery] Reference

Regardless of which party is in power, the Government appears committed to preventing or at least ameliorating cataclysmic financial events.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Market, to Market To Fund the Good Life] Reference

Not till 1824 was an act passed slightly ameliorating this stringent law, and even then the trade unions remained for the most part secret organizations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monopolies and the People] Reference

Fortunately for the happiness of the race, there are important influences at work counteracting, modifying and ameliorating the social evils that threaten us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monopolies and the People] Reference

But any scheme, which, under the pretext of ameliorating his position, would place him again under tutelage, is a scheme of degradation and a retrograde movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference

Let us embrace every opportunity which may offer for ameliorating the condition of slaves so far as the laws, under which we severally act, will permit us to proceed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference

Throughout the slave states, at that time, the necessity of enlightening the minds, and ameliorating the conditions of the slaves was generally seen, felt, and acknowledged.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery] Reference

Nothing is more erroneous than the idea which is entertained by many, that ameliorating laws, and especially manumissions, are productions of insurrections among the slaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference

He is a scholarly, successful business man of Philadelphia, who has long been identified with churches, charities and every project for ameliorating the condition of his race.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference

Edward Atkinson read a paper in which he discussed the question of the cost of living, and showed that the tendency, recent and present, has been, and is, an ameliorating one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886] Reference

The hierarchy has distinguished itself by speaking out against the death penalty, in favor of a living wage and in support of ameliorating the effects of global-climate change.    From Wordnik.com.  [In The Name Of The Father] Reference

As its title suggests, it was the history of the ameliorating endeavors of a woman in criminal society, and it contained, perforce, a large amount of tragic and pathetic incident.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by American Authors, Volume 6] Reference