meliorative

• “Calling them special interests sounds pejorative, and independent group sounds meliorative.”

  NPR: What Would You Call Attack-Ad Funders?

• “Israel's critics are often the same people who spent years denouncing George W. Bush's antagonistic attitude and are thrilled with Barack Obama's meliorative rhetoric.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Roman Hruska Lives!

• “The classic neoconservative tend to take a meliorative approach to society, see religion as providing a moral guide (they need not be religious themselves) and take a forceful democracy encouraging approach to foreign affairs.”

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

• “To our mind, the best way to answer that question is to ponder this one: What evidence is there that Obama has had a meliorative effect on Jeremiah Wright or other like-minded supporters?”

  The Wall Street Journal: Cyber-Slapp

• “The danger is that he would show similar weakness on the world stage, and that America's enemies would find such weakness provocative rather than meliorative.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Meanwhile, Back at Trinity United

• “But basically, modern and uniform codes were mealymouthed or at best meliorative.”

  Simon & Schuster: A History of American Law

• “Their effect might be traced through the entire range of that schedule of non-invidious, meliorative enterprise that is so considerable a feature, and especially so conspicuous a feature, in the overt scheme of life of the well-to-do.”

  The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions

• “The requirements of decency are imperiously present in meliorative enterprise as in other lines of conduct, and exercise a selective surveillance over the details of conduct and management in any enterprise.”

  The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions

• “Beyond these the same animistic sense shows itself also in such attenuations of anthropomorphism as the eighteenth-century appeal to an order of nature and natural rights, and in their modern representative, the ostensibly post-Darwinian concept of a meliorative trend in the process of evolution.”

  The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions

• “That knowledge does not teach quietism, not at all; but we must learn to distinguish between meliorative action and millennial action.”

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