Sentence examples for salve from inspiring English sources

The education minister said the Coalition just had to keep "ploughing on with our messages" and he added "forward momentum [was a] great salve".

Thus, toast and inhalation of heavy metals join the family diet of petroleum lip salve and paraben-laced shampoo, yet we'd start screaming if someone brought in a can of Coke for the kids.

Parents use these freebies as presents to salve their guilt at being away from their children for the week, but this year the fun to be had from them is limited.

Empathy is the all-purpose salve.

Cyprus may continue to incur bank bail-out costs while struggling to rebuild its economy; the salve of devaluation, about the only good thing that typically comes along with a crisis like this, is unavailable.

That may be overstating the case; but it is certainly not a magic salve that can be applied without consequence.

Interest-rate cuts are a salve for debtors and a penalty on savers.

Launching a battle for gay rights may salve consciences, but will make it harder to achieve that goal.

The practice of affirmative action, whereby some university applicants were favoured simply because of race or ethnicity, was outlawed, and a long attempt to salve the nation's racial wounds ended.Washington state's voters went on to ban racial preferences in 1998, Michigan just last month.

But those who support the proposal as an egalitarian salve should think twice.

The second is that those who salve their consciences over third-world poverty by buying the occasional T-shirt will also be willing to pay over the odds for a supply of ordinary knickers.