amelioration

• “The converse process, amelioration, is evident in the slang uses of wicked, deadly, and sick.”

  Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral

• “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.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Divide and Rule

• “Policy decisions should be based on semi-empirical 10-20 year maximum likelihood projections of current trends, with the idea of amelioration of possible negative climate effects, and, honestly, exploitation of any anticipated positive consequences.”

  Some Links to Pielke Jr « Climate Audit

• “As for the general interest in social amelioration, that is the worst sign of all.”

  Humanly Speaking

• “The images of dead babies, looking like baby dolls rather than fragmented remains which appeared yesterday, have been cited by Ms. Philips herself as a kind of amelioration of the situation.”

  On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...

• “Here are all these northern liberals from Wisconsin, Ohio, Arthur Morgan and [David] Lilienthal and these people are real liberal folks, but the policies at TVA really did not contribute much at all to any kind of amelioration of racial problems — in hiring let alone the people who were displaced by dams, jobs within TVA.”

  Oral History Interview with C. Vann Woodward, January 12, 1991. Interview A-0341. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

• “There has been produced an abundant literature in which traditional Christian ethics take ample account of modern social investigations and the theories thus formulated have created a movement for social amelioration which is playing a notable part in the present-day history of Europe.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon

• “But luckily I was in the 'Fifth Reader' then, and had happened to have 'amelioration' in my spelling-lesson only a few days before; so I spoke up and said, 'Oh, yes, Dr. Longman, he is a great deal better, and he is really hungry to-day.”

  Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls

• “The key word for Jefferson was "amelioration," and it included several stages of national and moral development.”

  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]

• “The postmodern comedy in the work of Pynchon or Barth or Barthelme doesn't seek to "correct" behaviors and institutions that threaten individual autonomy or impede social progress; it portrays such threats and obstructions as inherent to human life and thus unfortunately not much subject to amelioration.”

  Detecting a Wrongness

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