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Example sentences for: mend

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Even Detroit, a largely African-American city that is far worse off than the District, now appears to be on the mend after voters replaced an ineffectual black-nationalist mayor with a dynamic reformer.
His "mend it, don't end it" speech of July 1995 emphasized that affirmative action helped women--half the voting population.
We're talking, after all, about a city government that--with an annual budget of about $5 billion and a shrinking population--runs schools that cannot shelter, much less educate its children; cannot mend its roads or keep its drinking water potable; cannot police its own police force, let alone its streets or jails; cannot care for the sick, or elderly, or homeless.
One discrepancy in the LAT account of the settlement: the paper says the agreement calls for the company to "mend its strong-arm tactics."
As a White House aide in Clinton's first term, Edley was author of the administration's characteristically nuanced (or, if you prefer, mushy and having-it-both-ways) "mend it, don't end it" policy for affirmative action.