Sentence examples for left us better from inspiring English sources

Foraging in the footnotes in an effort to find out, I couldn't help feeling that discussion of these matters would have left us better equipped to read Isabella and her times.

"We have a regulatory outlook that is so poorly enforced that practically any modification will leave us better off".

Outsourcing raises American productivity, gives our economy a boost, increases foreign demand for U.S. products and leaves us better off.

But new research has shown that improvements in energy efficiency often pay for themselves, actually leaving us better off.

(And if all this sounds a touch Freudian for a man baking with his mother, well, the Oedipal dramas we enter knowingly leave us better sighted, not blind).

Does our gradual move away from violence towards civility leave us better or worse equipped to deal with the next great calamity when it comes?

By contrast another strategy leads us to focus on the most advantaged position and says we should "maximize the maximum" potential gain—"maximax"—and choose the alternative whose best outcome leaves us better off than all other alternatives.

One rule of choice called "maximin"—directs that we play it as safe as possible by choosing the alternative whose worst outcome leaves us better off than the worst outcome of all other alternatives.

I'd also argue that this leaves us better positioned to understand and tap into people's 'taste graph' than anyone else in the online food or social commerce space".

I wish we would stop looking at violence as entertainment--which would leave us better able to process sadness when real violence happens in our world.

But there is great value in setting down contemporary reactions made in the absence of that data -- if only to leave us better able later to judge what we missed by knowing now only what we have seen with our own eyes.