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  • We are already beginning to see the effects of this, and unless we make a quick course correction, which unfortunately will only ameloriate global warming for some years, we will be steaming full power ahead into a global disaster.

    Think Progress » Murtha Plans To Deny Bush Funding For Troop Escalation 2007

  • He conceded that the UN had made a positive step to "ameloriate our anger" over the presence of the SADC troops in Lesotho by assigning a person onto the Interim Political Authority preparing for fresh elections next year.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • These authors in no sense claim to cure glaucoma, but to ameloriate it and reduce the tension.

    Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 Various

  • The International Monetary Fund, led by Christine Lagarde, has loosened restrictions on lending to try and ameloriate the debt crisis.

    CNN.com 2011

  • No salary freeze is going to ameloriate those cuts.

    Latest News Nancy Kearney 2010

  • No salary freeze is going to ameloriate those cuts.

    Latest News Nancy Kearney 2010

  • It may be speculated that cancer patients receiving proteasome inhibitor treatment could benefit from the coadministration of salubrinal also for a second reason: While enhancing the killing of sensitized leukemic cells, salubrinal may at the same time ameloriate proteasome inhibitor-mediated toxicity in neuronal cells

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

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