Word: strengthens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the instructors of the division, who will share the tutorial work. It is expected by the University authorities that the adoption of this system will stimulate the interest of the mathematics student still further, will increase his ability to read and acquire information for himself, and will also strengthen his critical faculties and his initiative...
Thus Premier Briand succeeded in getting all his Ministers, and to a lesser extent the political groups of which they are members, committed to a definite Briand-Doumer Finance Program. Optimistic observers inclined to the opinion that he can weld and strengthen these commitments into a majority which can resist the Cartel's efforts to dictate Government policy. Political ravens, of course, croaked that the Cabinet's pledge of unanimity was writ in water...
...visit to South Africa, West Africa and South America. I have been deeply touched by the account he gave to me of the warm welcome everywhere accorded him, and I am proud to think that his visit served to deepen the affection which has united my people and to strengthen the bonds which link this country with the peoples of South America...
...have given assent to a bill for confirmation of the agreement reached between my ministers and the Governments of the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland [the Irish boundary settlement, TIME, Dec. 14, 21]. It is my heartfelt prayer that this measure may advance co-operation and strengthen good will in Ireland...
...poor ever to pay the undetermined hundreds of millions of pounds which it might eventually have been adjudged to owe the Empire, Mr. Baldwin's logic was widely considered irrefutable. President Cosgrave spoke of the agreement as marking "a turning point in Irish history" and likely to strengthen the Free State's unstable credit. Sir James Craig, Premier of Ulster, went so far as to propose that the Ulster border police be disbanded as a definite fruition of the present accord...