amelioration

Examples of ameliorating

ameliorating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Ameliorating distress at the end of life can help patients to experience a more peaceful and dignified death.
As such, they fail not merely because they are objectionable but also because they do not succeed in ameliorating the identity crisis.
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.
This innovation is modeled as a costly matching technology capable of ameliorating the trade frictions by providing deterministic double-coincidence matches.
Failure to do so may result in the temporary concealment of serious gastrointestinal pathology, classically carcinoma of the caecum, by ameliorating the diagnostic anaemia.
In this case, exercise still has a role in preserving function and ameliorating the effects of disease.
All the evidence from this study attests to the value of befriending in ameliorating the effects of social isolation.
These results suggest that diltiazem may have an ameliorating effect on graft vascular disease following cardiac transplantation and merits further study.
Yet what happens when priority setting is more or less abandoned, and the attention focuses on ameliorating decisions of individual doctors?
On the other hand, by ameliorating grievances generated by cadres in the countryside, party chiefs tried to demonstrate the regime's benevolence.
Within the past few years therefore, parasitic nematodes have been used in clinical trials aimed at ameliorating inflammatory diseases.
These patients likely received better management of physical symptoms and more social contact and support, ameliorating two of the major known risk factors for depression.
The contribution of informal carers is recognised and some of the possible ways of ameliorating their economic position are considered.
These drugs produce a prompt anti-inflammatory effect, mainly ameliorating the symptoms due to heart failure.
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