ameliorate

• I assure you that it will not be difficult to ameliorate, by each other, our two lives, which in their different ways are sad and bad thus separated. —  Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1, "From Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso,"
• The requirement that recreational and procreational sex go together helped ameliorate, if not break, an era of what was essentially domestic enslavement -- women were worse-used in classical Athens than in other ancient societies, and the institution of monogamous heterosexual marriage helped break some of the worst features of that ill-use. —  The Volokh Conspiracy
• If US president Barack Obama is serious about helping to ameliorate EU energy security, he will politely remind his Fren ... —  EUobserver.com - Headline News
• And if we do not immediately halt our elite's rapacious looting of the public treasury we will be left with trillions in debts, which can never be repaid, and widespread human misery which we will be helpless to ameliorate. —  CommonDreams.org Headlines
• And now with the Great Recession taking up every space resource available, the odds of anything big happening to ameliorate the situation look even more remote. krystalviews Says: —  Think Progress

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