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Example sentences for "better state"

  • He is himself an Osiris, and will enter upon a better state of existence beyond the grave if a favorable judgment is passed upon him in the trial given to the dead.

  • The triumph of Bacchus is presented in another picture, which is fortunately in a better state of preservation.

  • Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs, When in the least of them my life hath end, I see, a better state to me belongs Than that, which on thy humour doth depend.

  • But the pines are now nearly exhausted, the trade in naval stores and lumber lessened, and in consequence a better state of agriculture has commenced.

  • After the surrender of their grant to the crown by the lords proprietors of Carolina, in 1729, a better state of affairs succeeded, and a more energetic government, with its blessings and prosperity was the result.

  • Every man who is not helping to bring about a better state of affairs for the future is helping to perpetuate the present misery, and is therefore the enemy of his own children.

  • By not trying to find out how to end it--by not helping those who are trying to bring a better state of things into existence.

  • And despicable, because although they saw their children condemned to the same life of degradation, hard labour and privation, yet they refused to help to bring about a better state of affairs.

  • It will give mankind an idea of the labor of body and mind that has been expended to realize a better state of society; to substitute a social and co-operative state for a competitive one; a system of harmony, for one of discord.

  • These two combined to bring about a better state of things in an extended circle, and also to lend fresh interest and a halo of poetry to the ancient law.

  • They lent their words of fire to the promulgation of the pure doctrines of God, and opened their lips in the cause of right, and endeavoured to bring about a better state of things.

  • By such exhortations he might have brought about a better state of mind among his hearers, if the respect felt for him had been likewise enjoyed by his two sons, Hophni and Phineas.

  • Meanwhile these misfortunes--the destruction and loss of the Sanctuary at Shiloh--had aroused a desire for a better state of things.

  • Through the help of the Lord I am rather in a better state of heart than for some time past.

  • And if the road was to be a direct cause of the future wealth of the canton, all the primary forms of industry must be stimulated, or these two germs of a better state of things would come to nothing.

  • I did not indulge in any illusions as to the nature of the country people, nor as to the hindrances that lie in the way of every attempt to bring about a better state of things among men or their surroundings.

  • A road was our first and most pressing need in bringing about a better state of things.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    better able; better class; better for; better idea; better knowledge; better look; better make; better position; better state; better still; better tell; better than; better then; better understood; better view; better word; better world; bore down; came down; can understand; fatal issue; poor devil; prevent from; public policy; should bring; wild boars