The good of the people is what he seeks; his fame--the mere fact of his being thought of to represent Manchester--is the assurance that he has the means of promoting it.
He acted with the Southern wing of the Democratic party, and was discreetly ambitious, promoting the agricultural interests of his commonwealth, and otherwise fulfilling useful civil functions.
I took up my permanent abode with quartermaster Kingwalt, a very prince of old soldiers, who had devoted much of a sturdy life to promoting the militia interests of the populous county of Chester.
They also serve a useful purpose in instituting or promoting proceedings to discipline or expel unworthy attorneys from the bar.
There are a public library, established by subscription in 1858; and a students' union, for helping the sick and poor and promoting the intellectual and physical improvement of boys.
These became highly efficient in promoting foreign and domestic missions, Sunday-school organization, denominational literature and education.
Daughters and sons must follow the same curriculum of study, thereby promotingunity of the sexes.
The Benedictine order was exceptional in the establishment of better schools and in promoting better educational influences.
It is a disappointment to the reader that Athens, when in the height of power, when the possibilities for extending and promoting the best interests of humanity in social capacity were greatest, should end in decline and failure.
Charlemagne was desirous, too, of promoting learning of all kinds, and gathered together the scattered fragments of the German language, and tried to advance the educational interests of his subjects in every direction.
Will the following members be so very good as to pay their subscriptions due the term before last to the 'Society for promoting Masculine Intelligence'?
He was no believer in globe-trotting as a means of promoting mutual understanding.
The value of travel as a corrective of insularity and a means of promoting a better understanding of our foreign neighbours is not recognized.
A dominant influence in promoting the new construction at this time was the imperative need of the South for foodstuffs.
The disclosures in the New York insurance investigation of 1905 as to the intricate ramifications of financial power came, as will shortly appear, at a most opportune time for promoting congressional activity.
The activity of the Commission at this time inpromoting uniform classification elsewhere discussed,[562] was evidently based upon a similar belief in its legal competency to act.
Her cousin Horatia had always had a great passion for her as a beautiful little toy, and her affection, once so trying to its object, had taken the far more agreeable form of promoting her pleasures and sympathizing with her vexations.
For promoting Good Order, Cleanliness, Health, and Good-Humour among the Ships' Companies.
Mixed up in several promotingschemes with various success.
A railroad that is spending a million a year to fight off hold-up state laws is by so much handicapped in its function of promoting commerce by low freight rates.
Can you tell me anything about a man by the name of Carroll that's been running a sort of promoting business up in No.
I suppose that promoting business, that business transacted in the New York office, got you into rather hotter waters than usual.
It is clear, then, that the American Colonization Society, though regarded as a factor to play an important part in promoting the exodus of the free Negroes to foreign soil, was an inglorious failure.
The glory of promoting and successfully accomplishing those results belonged to other nations, which had the wisdom and fortune to secure the services of these navigators.
May God long preserve your life, which has been spent in promoting the great ends of truth and knowledge!
I only regret I was not on the Council myself to have advocated your high claims and taken a share in promoting your success.
Congregational, Baptist, and Episcopal churches had lotteries "for promoting public worship and the advancement of religion.
Very few housekeepers realize the importance of ventilation in promoting the general health and comfort of the family.
It is only," she said, "by promoting the happiness of others, that we can secure our own.
She answered, "that, as she desired no other happiness henceforth in the world than in promoting that of her daughter, she hoped to be allowed to leave her departure for France to her own inclination.
The following letter on the manner in which, in missionary countries, the Blessed Eucharist is to be conveyed to the sick, is a fresh proof of the zeal of the Holy See in promoting devotion to the Most Holy Sacrament.
The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge have laid particular stress in looking after the spiritual welfare of emigrants in all our colonies; and in Liverpool, as some of my readers may be aware, the society have placed the Rev.
What we want is what is now being attempted by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, the leading members of which have established a Church Colonization Land Society.
The Hughes County Farm Bureau has been especially effective in promoting cooeperative enterprise.
Mr. Sam Rathbone, Mr. Gilmour, and Mr. Bushell were very active in promoting this association.
We have in promoting education in India forgotten that there is but a limited opening for mere students, and in the absence of fitting occupation they become agitators.
His published letters and pamphlets on economic subjects show that he took much interest in the pressing questions of the day, and was very active in promoting the repeal of the Corn Laws and in the amendment of the Poor Laws.
It has been more effective in promoting order than any other experiment.
I deny not, but your competent gain and maintenance may be your lower end, but the promoting of justice must be your higher end, and sought before it.
Their time will be employed in promoting faith, repentance, love, and obedience, which was wont to be spent in vain janglings and strife of words.
And this by promotingthe public good, by fitting youth for public service.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "promoting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
