So much money spent on negative ads but not one dollar invested in bettering this nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [RNC airs critical ads prior to Obama visit] Reference

Their aspirations present a challenge to the more favored nations to lend assistance in bettering the lot of the poorer.    From Wordnik.com.  [George C. Marshall - Nobel Lecture] Reference

I know he was clueless, young, under-educated, and he had no interest in bettering his understanding of history, the US, or the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Pro-Slavery] Reference

The method is not yet perfect, it is true, but it is an expression of what we were hoping for in bettering the conditions which gave it birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Élie Ducommun - Nobel Lecture] Reference

You can perceive her determination and dedication, you have read of her exploits in bettering the life for females, and you may know of her love for cats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

Mr. Carleton had a very large tenantry around him and depending upon him, in bettering whose condition, if he had but known it, all those energies might have found full play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queechy] Reference

Caldew had gone to London fifteen years before with the idea of bettering himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hand in the Dark] Reference

They haven't given up on the idea of bettering themselves, in large part because they're getting a helping hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Herald-Mail Online] Reference

He considered turning pro following his junior season, before Sherman coaxed him back with the idea of bettering his draft positioning.    From Wordnik.com.  [chron.com Chronicle] Reference

The focus would be on "bettering" oneself through education.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference

By 'bettering', of course, they mean acquiring a lot of future landfill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Slater: Why Free-Market Capitalism Will Follow Communism Into the Trash-Heap of History] Reference

But not until TUESDAY, because Monday is MY BIRTHDAY and I do not intend to waste my birthday by "bettering" myself, no sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just Wait Until You See Our Self-Help Book] Reference

I also feel that being off work is better for me - I'm spending more time walking & "bettering" myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

With a smile on their faces, some infiltrated the media in order to spin the truth and spew rhetoric while others were busily involved in "bettering".    From Wordnik.com.  [theleafchronicle.com - Local News] Reference

Earlier in the day, I worked on bettering my sleep environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leah Finnegan: Electric Sundown: How I Turned Off My BlackBerry And Found Peace] Reference

It is about bettering ourselves so that we can do more to better humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Luce: The Stewardship Report on Connecting Goodness Announces Editorial Calendar] Reference

Prometheus, "and I trust I may have the pleasure of bettering our acquaintance.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Affairs] Reference

Rochefoucauld for bettering the peasants, they did much visiting of curés and cottagers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference

Finding that there was but one way of bettering his condition, he worked hard, and behaved well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

You water the good impulses I have, you encourage all that is noble, elevating, and bettering, in me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference

This is a wonderful instinct that is bettering America's image and making domestic politics more civil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting to Know Obama] Reference

I, neglecting all worldly ends, buried among my books, did dedicate my whole time to the bettering of my mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference

Those living in poverty will have a much more difficult time bettering themselves, as much of the middle class sinks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet Tavakoli: Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger: Winning the Class War] Reference

Those living in poverty will have a much more difficult time bettering themselves, as much of the middle class sinks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet Tavakoli: Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger: Winning the Class War] Reference

Joam Fernandes Vieyra, a native of Madeira, had, at a very early age, left his native island in hopes of bettering his fortune in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

Northern laborer, if very poor, may be discontented; but discontent urges him to effort, and leads to the bettering of his condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference

Curiosity, blended with the hope of bettering their condition, turned their faces to that "fresh, unbounded, magnificent wilderness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

England, for bettering the condition of labourers in husbandry, by giving them, at a reasonable rent, a quarter of an acre of land to keep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference

Their tests, incidentally, proved that there is no danger of an athlete going beyond his physiologic limit while bettering his former marks.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis] Reference

Sunday-schools, and all their appliances for the bettering of the condition of humanity, and at the same time constantly find fault with the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880] Reference

Land, although the Zionists are devoting their main endeavors toward firmly establishing the resident inhabitants and bettering their condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference

It will make us great, and loving patriots also; and root out from among us a vast amount of sham and political fraud, to the great bettering of society.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Your own leaders acknowledge that, hitherto, your agitation, far from bettering the condition of the slaves, has only made it worse; and in some respects this is true.    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

Controversies about religious matters might, and did, grow more acute; controversies about bettering the position of the working classes only began with the breaking down of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference

Heavy and continuous work was put in mending and bettering the trenches, training the drafts which were arriving, performing tactical exercises and battalion routine affairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918] Reference

White men will not be found willing to develop a policy which offers them no hope of bettering themselves; and as to labour -- other willing Asiatics are always close at hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference