The phrase "ameliorating conditions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to improve or make better certain situations or environments, often in contexts like social issues, health, or economic conditions.
Example: "The organization is focused on ameliorating conditions for underprivileged communities through various support programs."
Alternatives: "improving circumstances" or "enhancing situations".
Efforts made by the assembly in the early 19th century to thwart the attempts of the executive to ameliorate conditions for the slaves continued until the United Kingdom Abolition Act came into force in the colony on Aug. 1, 1834; full emancipation came in 1838.
But the code (the purely political features of which are irrecoverably lost to the present short of some lucky inscriptional find) was surely intended to define and so ameliorate conditions; the Athenian equivalents of the "bribe-eating basileis" of the Boeotian Hesiod's poem could still dispense a rough, but no longer arbitrary, justice.
Forest managers and policy makers can benefit from methods to help identify where forests are most susceptible to disturbance, so they might ameliorate conditions where and when it will do the most good.
Kelps also provide extensive substrata for colonising organisms, ameliorate conditions for understorey assemblages, and provide three-dimensional habitat structure for a vast array of marine plants and animals, including a number of commercially important species.
China, which has often come under criticism from environmentalists for building and financing dams on the Mekong, is now attempting to ameliorate conditions: It is currently releasing water from a major Mekong dam in Yunnan, the Jinghong hydropower station, to alleviate shortages downstream, the state news agency Xinhua reports.
Their work reflects a long-running tension in the movement to ameliorate conditions for the millions of people locked up in prisons, jails, and detention centers across the country: the reality that humanitarian reform efforts have often cemented, rather than diminished, the role of prisons in American life.
Awareness of these hazards may sometimes be great, prompting important and appropriate advocacy and action by communities to ameliorate conditions that contribute to acute and chronic illness.
The concept of "exposure experience," based on the "illness experience" approach in medical sociology and anthropology (Rier 2010), explains how people take in data about their own exposures, including an understanding of absolute and relative exposures, attributions of sources and blame, perceived harm and worry, and opportunities to ameliorate conditions (Adams et al. 2011; Altman et al. 2008).
No policy proposals aim at ameliorating the conditions of white people.
