He was active in promoting vaccination, improving the conditions of child labour, advocating rural allotments, and agitating against the salt duties.
LOCAL ACT—For improvingthe turnpike roads leading into and from the city of Worcester.
In the year 1846 an Act of Parliament was passed for paving, cleansing, draining, and improving the town, and for the better assessing and collecting the parochial rates.
Evesham, and improving the bridge over the Avon; for repair of the road from Evesham to Bishop’s Cleeve.
The acquaintance had not been a pleasant one, and certain details in the abbe's career which happened to have come to his knowledge had not made Don Agostino desirous of improving it.
Getting on as well as I could, and ruminating very unsatisfactorily upon these possible consequences, the storm began to abate, and the wind veered to the northwest; the mare knew this, and gave immediate signs of it by improving her pace.
When the gentlemen took their leave, Mr Gwynne proposed a ride through his plantations, which he was improving and enlarging.
Now Freda really is a capital girl, unaffected and sensible; improving every year.
His brother is very much thought of, and improving his own and my property amazingly.
The ox teams are improvingin their condition, but the horses do not stand it as well.
However, it has taken us over three days after the road is made although a great many hours have been spent in improving it.
An improving spectacle for the valley,' said Mrs. Seaton drily.
Husband and wife went anxiously through the document, softening here, improving there, and then it was sent to the Hall.
Improving conditions gave a fresh start to immigration, and the comparatively rational policy of the Bourbon dynasty removed many of the more crying abuses of colonial administration.
No extensive subdivision of estates resulted, and the Creole aristocracy continued to pay more attention to political intrigue than to improving their property.
On this Rozier founds his proposal for improving rape-oil.
Among the latest proposals forimproving the hose is that of weaving one without a seam.
The net profit was to be employed in improving the English harbours.
The first useful regulation by which La Reynie rendered a service to the police, was that forimproving the (guet) night-watch, and the lighting of the streets.
After that period Nuremberg produced in this art more expert masters, who, by improving the tools and devising cheaper methods of employing them, brought it to a much higher degree of perfection[208].
Lord Goring, I think your father’s conversation much more improving than yours.
I don’t think they can be quite improving reading for any one.
The next two days were spent in clearing the camp and, so far as possible, improving its military position; but it was still surrounded by thick oak jungle, which would have afforded cover for an enemy making a sudden attack.
In brief, it means a practical illustration, of the use of scientific methods, for improving the race.
The general service fund was to be used in defraying the expense of stocking, equipping andimproving the farm.
Having finished this first series of buildings for immediate use, attention was given to the matter of improving the appearance of the public square.
His poem appears to have been the great interest of his life, and almost to the end he was altering and adding to, without, however, improving it.
Household Furniture and Decoration, which had a great effect in improving the public taste in such matters.
Here was a poor, hard-working boy, with few opportunities for schooling, yet almost fitted for college by simply improving his spare moments.
Some relief can and should be afforded byimproving portions of Batavia Street and extending it to Frankstown Road at Blackadore Avenue.
On account of its steepness, and the difficulty of improving the gradient, Perrysville Avenue will never be a main thoroughfare except to the high country immediately north of the down town North Side.
These changes should all be incorporated in any general plan for cutting and improving the Hump District.
That lady was an assistant secretary in an Association forImproving the Condition of the Destitute and knew a prodigious amount regarding poverty and crime.
The assistant secretary of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Destitute had her share of humor.
The Engineers also worked like Trojans, improving the roads and bridging the numerous, now swollen, rivers and spruits that abounded in the district.
The first is the power or faculty ofimproving from generation to generation his condition by means of art, and knowing how to advance from one degree of science to another.
By improving our present state by a divine revelation, I wish to be understood to comprehend all that is meant by the ministry of reconciliation.
The human mind seems to be developing its powers in a most wonderful manner; new inventions, new discoveries, and new theories are the fruits of new experiments; while many are improving upon theories and subjects already existing.
Denham and Waller sought another way to fame, by improving the harmony of our members.
He had no doubt that the minds already at work on the incandescent light would seek out means for improving the burner.
There is a system of improvingthe appearance of old, decayed work by raking out and filling up the joint, and then making a narrow mortar joint in the middle of this filling in, and projecting from the face.
All who contemplate building or improving homes, or erecting structures of any kind, have before them in this work an almost endless series of the latest and best examples from which to make selections, thus saving time and money.
These had all purchased lands and paid for them, and most of them were improving in buildings and in cultivation.
Men and animals were so exhausted that, after digging and improving the water, and a general watering, it was ten hours or more before the cattle were driven to what little feed there was, a mile or two distant.
Samuel Morton Peto (afterwards Sir Samuel) had decided to enrich Lowestoft by improving the harbour and building a railway to Reedham, about half-way between Yarmouth and Norwich.
You will be surprised to hear that several amongst the Jews have purchased copies of the New Testament with the intention, as they state, of improving themselves in Spanish, but I believe from curiosity.
As Postmaster General he secured a fine reputation, improving its finances and in every possible way improving the postal facilities of the country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "improving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: mend; mending; ongoing; progressing; progressive; promotion
