(1) Psychiatrist Ladislas von Meduna, M.D., hypothesizing an antagonism between epilepsy and schizophrenia, reasoned that chemically inducing convulsions might somehow meliorate the psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia.(2) When the Depression struck in 1929, and especially after Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal began trying to meliorate its effects, reformers hit a stone wall of conservatism on the high court.(3) The two countries will co-operate and exchange expertise in vine-growing and wine-making, rose oil production, fruit and vegetable processing, freshwater fishery, and hydro melioration .(4) This influence on me, of course, was meliorated by my father's vigorous activities as founder of one of the first Boy Scout troops in America, down in the slums of Philadelphia, among the children of European immigrants.(5) Nevertheless, slang items often diverge from standard usage in predictable ways, especially by generalization and melioration .(6) Starting with the Missouri report, he began a campaign to have the organization do more than rely on the meliorating effect of public opinion.(7) We want a more meliorative foreign policy, and he doesn't.(8) They haven't communicated this to the electorate, but they believe profoundly in its justice as a meliorative measure of redistribution.(9) Obviously topical, the dialogue yields at times to the temptations of speechifying, but it is a pitfall meliorated by strong acting and direction.(10) That sense of melioration , strong in many Americans, that things can be accomplished for the good of others, is ultimately repulsive to Thayler's distinct moral sensibility.(11) In these essays, the globalized economy appears principally as a means of melioration for the gutsy women who exploit its singular opportunities.(12) This protection may take proactive forms, and may entail substantial efforts to manage future risk by meliorating the effects of authoritarianism elsewhere in the world.
