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President Clinton made promises to meliorate these trends a major part of his 1992 campaign, and the voter anger may reflect disappointment that change has been slow to arrive.

Dr. Neuringer has suggested that behavior analysis as a field might benefit from using experimental designs that explicitly and directly attempted to meliorate the condition of an experimental subject.

'Tis inhuman to want faith in the power of education, since to meliorate, is the law of nature; and men are valued precisely as they exert onward or melio-rating force.

He noted that misregulation can impede innovation, and invoked what he called the "futility principle": There are some genuine problems that are only made worse by attempts to meliorate them.

Is it true that the lapse of time, the cessation of conflicting interests, the woeful experience of the evils resulting from party rage have had no sort of influence gradually to meliorate their minds?

We should also devote special effort to meliorate, between the space powers and others, the increasing gap in technological capability and the gap in awareness and understanding of new opportunities and responsibilities evolving in the space age.

To render also the social compact truly equitable, and in order to spread those enlightening principles, which alone can meliorate the fate of man, women must be allowed to found their virtue on knowledge, which is scarcely possible unless they be educated by the same pursuits as men.

He lauded American agriculture and manufacturing, pledged himself to a spirit of "equity and humanity" toward the American Indian, "to meliorate their condition by inclining them to be more friendly to us, and our citizens to be more friendly to them."

The intercourse now renewed was friendly in the highest degree, both with Taoofa and the rest of the natives; and our commander endeavoured to meliorate their condition by planting a pine-apple and sowing the seeds of melons, and other vegetables, in the chief's plantation.

The health, the convenience, and, as far as it could be admitted, the enjoyment of the seamen, were the constant objects of his attention; and he was anxiously solicitous to meliorate the condition of the inhabitants of the several islands and places which he visited.

We hope Secretary of State Colin Powell was privately embarrassed when, two days into a catastrophic disaster that hit 12 of the world's poorer countries and will cost billions of dollars to meliorate, he held a press conference to say that America, the world's richest nation, would contribute $15 million.

"We are working to do something to ameliorate these problems."

For the time being, though, Seven would have to ameliorate the situation.

But now drugs can ameliorate the problems such children cause us.

Why is so little being done to ameliorate the danger?

A big reason for the push is to ameliorate risk.

"But even if they are, they're not exactly following a course that would ameliorate it."

We'll give him a few minutes in the hope that the weather might ameliorate.

We are told that foreign presence itself ameliorates life in China.

However, it is not clear precisely what should be done to ameliorate the situation.

Climate change can only be ameliorated from the bottom up.

Most of its significant effects in practice have been ameliorated by legislation.

Here are several ways to ameliorate the bill's harmful impact.

So any lingering problem you had with that can be ameliorated.

In 1908 efforts began to ameliorate the land of dunes.

Available medical treatments can only ameliorate the effects of the disease.

"We have given the owners ideas on how to ameliorate these problems," he said.

Here we should be quite honest and say, for once, that European industry has done a great deal to ameliorate the problem.

There are two things that could be done relatively easily to ameliorate this situation.

However, this problem can be ameliorated by appropriate use of the module system.

A study showed its ability to ameliorate allergies in children.

This is a constructive solution that would help ameliorate the problem.

They kept going all that morning, and slowly the mood of the river began to ameliorate.

Since then, dams have been constructed to ameliorate the problem.

"We have made every conceivable effort to ameliorate their concerns."

His words were soft, perhaps to ameliorate the distress of Paris.