Yet, as young immigrants to America seeking betterment in a rapidly industrializing new country, they were also eager to look ahead.
Unless we believe that a better future can be created, we lack the impetus to seek the betterment of our lives and those of others.
About 250,000 people travelled across the Atlantic primarily to seek economic betterment and to escape hardships and famine.
It's full-scale participation in the 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-oldiago pilgrimage, on which millions have sought spiritual betterment.
Advocates of the movement interpreted the Kingdom of God as requiring social as well as individual salvation and sought the betterment of industrialized society through application of the biblical principles of charity and justice.
Retooled for a new generation, it has become a girls' night out, a book club meeting without the book, an excuse to have fun away from the home front while slyly seeking its betterment.
Young professionals honing their architectural skills while seeking the betterment of others.
Keeping in touch with their children is often the best motivation these women have for seeking self-betterment.
Be confident: "Good Pride" is clean, pure, seeking education and betterment for sharing it -- not neglectful, but prudent, not self-seeking, to shirk duty nor "con" people, not corrupt.
Rabbi Hertzberg's profound commitment and unbounded energy challenged us, and still does, to creatively and fearlessly seek solutions and vigorously act for the betterment of the Jewish people.
As consumers become more aware of consumption-related environmental problems, they simultaneously grow more cautions when purchasing products and eventually seek to purchase eco-friendly products for the betterment of current and future generations (Kilbourne and Pickett 2008; Laroche et al. 2001).
