Sentence examples for bettering of from inspiring English sources

Almost all British sitcoms are about class and hierarchy and the theme was present in Fletcher's teasing and bettering of the pompous senior warder played by Fulton McKay.

She has a vision for this City, and is a New Yorker through and through, wanting what's best for New York and I believe she's the only one of the candidates who can accomplish the bettering of the City.

In many ways Mackerras was a man of his age, a man for all seasons of music who lived for his art and for the bettering of its execution.

For more than six decades he used music as a focus for community cohesion and the bettering of race relations, and was directly involved in the establishment of the Notting Hill carnival in London.

"The Italian postal service has for some time been committed to the bettering of its services," Paolo Di Prima, the Italian postal services spokesman, said in an e-mail message.

In the process, the national attention lavished on him for his pursuit and then his bettering of Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games is credited with helping to bring baseball out of the malaise it had suffered after the players' strike of 1994.

I expect better of you.

He knows better, of course.

I thought better of it.

More speed is always better, of course.

Can I say better of myself?