ameliorative

• “Hmm, not sure I want to live in a country where someone can undergo torture and then without receiving any kind of ameliorative mental treatment be considered competent to stand trial.”

  Preventative Detention, Revisited | ATTACKERMAN

• “When they asked for some kind of ameliorative measures, we gave them none.”

  CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2008

• “But does it have to be so much so, or can some (different) public policy choices have an ameliorative effect?”

  Only Rep. Frank could go kill health care rationing… - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState

• “I did suffer from brain-fag on occasion, but alcohol never suggested itself as an ameliorative.”

  Chapter 26

• “Hopefully Mary Kate Hurley's paper on time in the Old English Orosius will have an ameliorative effect.”

  De Breeze's First Theorem of Kalamazoo

• “Given the disproportionate casualty rate among males compared to females in the military and the current “gender apartheid” in the Armed Forces, surely an ameliorative affirmative action draft is in order?”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Diane Wood on the Second Amendment

• “In Time rails against life's limits and proposes that they can be overcome by ameliorative acts like robbing banks.”

  The Huffington Post: Govindini Murty: In Time and Tower Heist: Can Robbing the Rich Solve Inequality?

• “Fortunately, skepticism about the evidence that supposedly supports current alarmism about climate change is growing, as is evidence that, whatever the truth about the problem turns out to be, U.S. actions cannot be significantly ameliorative.”

  Wonk Room » Like A Pig To The Trough, Washington Post’s George Will Returns To Climate Denial

• “To one extent or another, a lot of government agencies that have some remedial, ameliorative, or rule-making power that have life and death effects, and which operate in reactive mode, are tombstone agencies.”

  Think Progress » Scott Brown Yawns At Plane Attack On IRS Building: ‘No One Likes Paying Taxes’

• “The ameliorative measures undertaken by King Abdullah offer a way forward for the Saudi kingdom and its people, while the retrograde outlook of Crown Prince Nayef stands for rigidity and repression in governance.”

  The Huffington Post: Stephen Schwartz: Saudi Arabia At A Dangerous Crossroads?

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