amelioration

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

Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral 2009

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 2007

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 2006

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

Humanly Speaking Samuel McChord Crothers

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... 2009

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... 2009

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) 1991

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 1840-1916 1913

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 Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

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

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