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Example sentences for "promote"

Lexicographically close words:
promist; promontorie; promontories; promontorium; promontory; promoted; promoter; promoters; promotes; promoting
  1. I have now sketched very broadly the rational treatment of these disorders and diseases as far as the object of it is to prevent the occurrence or the extension of them, and to promote compensation of the disabilities which they produce.

  2. Arsenic and moderate doses of iodides, combined with an excess of alkalis, are calculated to promote the same end.

  3. Therefore, whilst we promote the nutrition of the elastic and muscular structures of the myocardium on the general principles which I have just laid down, we must be distinctly sparing of our demands on them.

  4. They had endeavoured to prevent cruelty to animals," he said, "but they had not enough endeavoured to promote affection for animals.

  5. He was anxiously willing to co-operate with every movement, to join hands with any kind of man, to go anywhere, do anything that might promote the cause he had at heart.

  6. It would promote a general civic awakening that would make each town and city a better place to live in, a better home for our citizens of the future.

  7. The purpose of this organization was to promote the temporal welfare of the people and aid them in acquiring the best markets for their produce by co-operative effort.

  8. In my zeal to promote {29} good, I got up prayer meetings in our village and prayed for light and knowledge.

  9. The people were poor in those days, but they nevertheless did all that a community could under similar circumstances to promote education.

  10. If he raised fruit, it was in fulfillment of a mission to promote an industry.

  11. I was chosen chairman of this committee, and subsequently president of the society which did much to promote the culture and growth of fruit in the Territory.

  12. Nothing has done more in this inter-mountain region to promote the financial well being of the people than the sugar industry.

  13. One hundred years ago the nation was composed of an honest, industrious, Christian people, and the chief men of the nation were poor, honest statesmen, who lived to promote the welfare of the whole people.

  14. But this accursed agitation, this offensive, injurious intermeddling with the affairs of other people, and this alone it is that will promote a desire in the mind of any one to separate these great and growing States.

  15. Would it be to promote the civilization and progress of the negro race?

  16. The tendency of the laws is above all to promote industry, material labour, the task of the moment.

  17. The chief purpose of christian knowledge is to promote the great end of a christian life.

  18. If those about them express violent and unreasonable anger at every trivial offence, it will always promote this temper, and will very frequently create it, where there was a natural tendency to frankness.

  19. HOW easily and effectually may a well-bred woman promote the most useful and elegant conversation, almost without speaking a word!

  20. A woman, in a company where she has the least influence, may promote any subject by a profound and invariable attention, which shews that she is pleased with it, and by an illuminated countenance, which proves she understands it.

  21. To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing, for limited times, to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.

  22. To promote the general welfare" was the great object for which the government was organized, and all the provisions of the constitution have that in view.

  23. She was only anxious to promote the glory of her husband, and was never more happy than when he was receiving plaudits for works which she had performed.

  24. Consequently, no one feared him as a rival, and he was freely thrust forward as the unobjectionable head of a party by all who hoped through him to promote their own interests.

  25. In the East, in Africa, everywhere, in Egypt, Tonkin or the Congo, the European is thus bound to promote the growth of serfdom.

  26. What is needed is a set of rules that shall promote the expression of the wishes of the majority.

  27. The test or criterion of right action is with Hutcheson, as with Shaftesbury, its tendency to promote the general welfare of mankind.

  28. He desired to promote me to the office of assistant general superintendent with headquarters at Altoona under Mr. Lewis.

  29. My connection with Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes, which promote the elevation of the colored race we formerly kept in slavery, has been a source of satisfaction and pleasure, and to know Booker Washington is a rare privilege.

  30. In that era not a few of those hitherto extolled as heroes will have found oblivion because they failed to promote peace and good-will instead of war.

  31. In this stage of the operation the turnings on the floor should be very frequent, in order to keep the grain cool, as the heat of the weather, at this season, will be sufficient to promote and perfect the vegetation.

  32. In this only lies the difference between the old word fermentation, and the new word attenuation, every thing used as a ferment, or to promote fermentation, is attenuant.

  33. The entire stoppage of the trade of that part of the empire, and the distress resulting from it, tended very materially to promote this desirable object.

  34. His poems which he signed "Sined," which was Denis spelled backward, won him the name of Bard of the Danube, and helped considerably to promote the study of German in Austria.

  35. They were Austrians from the Tyrol, but France, which had expelled the French Jesuits a few years before, was sending these foreign Jesuits to represent her, and to promote the interests of science in the Chinese court.

  36. Then there was a revival of interest, and societies were started to promote what they called Education on a scientific basis--by which they meant, not the study of science, but Meccanian education.

  37. It may well be said, that the impartiality with which the accommodations of this bank have been extended to promote all hopeful enterprises has done much to advance the growth and prosperity of the place.

  38. Long after he has passed away, the town of his adoption will continue to exhibit many evidences of his liberal contributions to whatever tended to promote the growth of the town, the prosperity of its business, or the public welfare.

  39. While residing in Manchester he held important offices in the municipal government, was a faithful public servant, working zealously to promote the general interests and the common good of his constituents, of whom he deserved well.

  40. George is public-spirited, and freely devotes his time and energies to the furtherance of every movement and the advocacy of every measure which he believes calculated to promote the material or educational welfare of the community.

  41. It was his pleasure to promote public education in every way.

  42. During his residence in Concord he was identified with all measures to promote the public good.

  43. As has been said, he has given earnest encouragement to all enterprises calculated to promote the material welfare and prosperity of his section.

  44. Mr. French, while not a politician, takes a deep interest in public affairs, and his help can always be depended on for whatever promises to promote the public good and the well-being of the community in which he lives.

  45. In December, 1844, Marr published a journal in Lausanne called Pages of the Present for Social Life (Blaetter der Gegenwart fuer sociales Leben), to promote the literary acceptance of this theory.

  46. The doctor was, moreover, anxious to wean the red man from his savage life to agricultural pursuits, as well as to promote in every way the settlement of the country.

  47. Does Mr Bentham profess to hold out any new motive which may induce men to promote the happiness of the species to which they belong?

  48. Understood in an enlarged sense, these precepts are, in fact, a direction to every man to promote the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

  49. But religion gives him a motive for doing as he would be done by: and Mr Bentham furnishes him no motive to induce him to promote the general happiness.

  50. If it is, then the argument, by which the Westminster Reviewer attempts to prove that men do not promote their own happiness by thieving, falls to the ground.

  51. Mr Mill tells us that, if power be given for short terms to representatives elected by all the males of mature age, it will then be for the interest of those representatives to promote the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

  52. Mr Bentham himself allows, as we have seen, that he can give no reason why a man should promote the greatest happiness of others if their greatest happiness be inconsistent with what he thinks his own.

  53. He has not taught them to promote the happiness of others, at the expense of their own; for that they will not and cannot do.

  54. On religious principles it is true that every individual will best promote his own happiness by promoting the happiness of others.

  55. It was but little that he could do to promote the honour of our country; but that little he did strenuously and constantly.

  56. He is politically popular with a large section of the nation, and therefore it has been thought well to promote him to high place.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "promote" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abet; actuate; advance; advantage; advertise; advocate; aggrandize; agitate; ameliorate; amenable; amend; animate; answer; assist; authorization; back; ballyhoo; bark; befit; benefit; better; bill; boost; capitalize; cause; champion; civilize; commend; compel; contribute; cultivate; develop; ease; edify; educate; elevate; emend; encourage; endow; energize; enhance; enlighten; ennoble; enrich; establish; exalt; expedite; facilitate; fatten; favor; feature; finance; fit; flog; foment; force; forward; further; galvanize; get; glorify; graduate; hasten; help; impel; improve; knight; lard; lift; lobby; make; mediate; meliorate; mend; merchandise; militate; motivate; move; nourish; nurse; nurture; pass; patronize; placard; plug; post; prefer; profit; promote; propagate; propel; provoke; publicize; puff; push; quicken; raise; recommend; refine; reform; second; sell; serve; socialize; spark; speed; spiel; sponsor; stand; stimulate; subserve; subsidize; support; talk; tout; transfigure; transform; upgrade; uphold; uplift; utilize; work


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    promote cooperation; promote economic; promote international; promote regional; promote the; promote the general welfare; promoted over the trees