amelioration

Examples of ameliorate

ameliorate
Many of these were envisioned as artistic undertakings that would ameliorate the urban environment, such as improving water supplies or cleaning up decayed neighborhoods.
These deficits in reflective function and awareness accompany feelings of relational insecurity, because such unresponsive caregiving also does not provide comfort or ameliorate distress.
In their letters, older people vividly describe their adoption of different coping strategies and how they help to ameliorate their poverty.
As such, they fail not merely because they are objectionable but also because they do not succeed in ameliorating the identity crisis.
What it does require is an attempt to understand why such problems are so difficult, and what can be done to ameliorate matters.
Here a narrative is constructed that collapses history and that reconstructs the post-war welfare state as producing, rather than ameliorating, inequalities.
In this example, the vertical axis represents support for farmers while the horizontal axis indicates concern with ameliorating the environmental impact of farming.
We believe that this problem may be partially ameliorated by considering possible heterotypic continuity in the manifestation of borderline pathology across development.
This innovation is modeled as a costly matching technology capable of ameliorating the trade frictions by providing deterministic double-coincidence matches.
Their low incomes could be ameliorated by public assistance or family support, but both are also 'burdens ' on the next cohort.
Free radical scavengers ameliorate the 2-cell block in mouse embryo culture.
We may have ameliorated the diseases of childhood, but we have replaced them with the sicknesses of middle and old age.
The transition benefits significantly ameliorated the adverse effects of the plan changes.
Cost-benefit analysis can be adjusted for the distribution of income and wealth, which would ameliorate some of these difficulties, but serious conflicts remain.
To ameliorate the tension that waiting created, several participants spoke of a number of problem-focused actions.
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