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Example sentences for: betterment

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It is I, the great Shopping Avenger, who has pledged himself to the betterment of all humankind, or at least to that portion of humankind that shops at Circuit City and rents trucks from U-Haul.
Here's a thought: Maybe Black, Scholes, and Merton were interested in serving the public good, and the giveaway was strictly for the betterment of humanity!
But even if these old battles somehow were to cease to seem relevant, which they might to a generation raised in a world without communism, it is hard to imagine a revival of interest in the kind of democratic-socialist program Rorty sees as the essence of national betterment.
We who write headlines as part of our jobs are used to being underappreciated for the contribution we make to human betterment.
My worry is that we will ignore important human needs at the expense of frivolous human desires; that dominant social norms will crowd out those of the minority; that the self-improvement agenda will be set not by individuals, but by powerful corporate interests; and that in the pursuit of betterment, we will actually make ourselves worse off.