Now it's all too common to sit through meetings with people who have no conception whatsoever about poverty, its causes and what can help to alleviate it.
And to alleviate it neither Bird nor Naughton have been shy in using their connections.
To watch one's child's pain and be helpless to alleviate it was beyond human endurance.
That maltreatment must first be acknowledged in order for us to alleviate it.
If stress is a major cause of ill health, interventions to alleviate it -- counseling, antidepressants, even yoga -- might be beneficial.
As far as muscle soreness goes, cooling down doesn't do anything to alleviate it, Dr. Tanaka said.
When he had elbow trouble last year, Smoltz tried to alleviate it by throwing with a three-quarters pitching motion.
The American epidemic of gun violence has not been "politicized" by those who seek to alleviate it.
Much charitable work responds only to current suffering, and even then does only a little to alleviate it.
The three other men lived through that turmoil, and didn't do a great job of trying to alleviate it.
It is conceivable that this process is doing more to drag out the foreclosure crisis than to alleviate it.
