Sentence examples for * betterment in from inspiring English sources

To a ripe old age, she was involved with every movement for betterment in Bronx County.

She was a tireless fighter for civic betterment in many areas of her beloved city's life.

Like all other attempts at betterment in Mueenuddin's world, this too fails, as Lily slowly reverts to her old ways.

The pursuit of ideals, the idea of social or architectural betterment in the provision of housing, has all but disappeared.

In short, we reject pleasure and variety and fun, and attempt to put a serious, methodical self-denying programme of betterment in its place.

His Jack Tanner – avatar of Don Juan, genius, radical, cave-man – embodies and exposes the limits of democratic betterment in an era when society and men (especially) have yet to change enough.

Mildred Rubenstein Newman, a New York psychologist whose vastly popular books helped meet an American yearning for emotional self-help and self-betterment in the 1970's, died Tuesday at her home on the Upper East Side.

Many of us, in an effort to make up for how we've splurged in December, make promises to ourselves for self-betterment in the new year.

And certainly the masses were less interested in such betterment than in their own music.

In the six years since Betterment debuted in our Startup Battlefield competition in New York pitching a better savings account service, the company has raised more than $200 million in equity and grown to manage $4 billion in assets.

"People could use some betterment, especially in a time like this," he said.