Recuperative

However they wanted to leave Plainfield with an "acute care center" (read Emergency Room) and a "long term recuperative facility" (read indigent patients), thereby allowing their Campus in Edison to thrive with the profit centers, while keeping the "rif-raff" element away from their campus. ❋ Dan (2007)

Was the nature of a priest absolutely devoid of what physicians call recuperative force, restoring him to a sound mind, in spite of professional perversion? ❋ John Morley (1880)

From what you've been able to ascertain of the extent of her injuries, what kind of recuperative recovery period does she face here? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Supposing that a weary man of science leaves his laboratory in the evening, and wends his way homeward, the very thought of the game of whist which awaits him is a kind of recuperative agency. ❋ James Runciman (1871)

Since the 1990s, such groups have brought more than 24,000 children age 8 to 16 to the U.S. for so-called "recuperative" stays, a practice backed by the two former Soviet republics of Ukraine and Belarus, which coordinate visits with several partner countries worldwide. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After such a long trough, the economy's natural recuperative powers are taking hold. ❋ Unknown (2012)

"He's got pretty good recuperative skills," Childress said. ❋ AP/The Huffington Post (2010)

Among other recommendations, the study endorses the selective use of "controlled napping"—part of a recuperative rest period potentially lasting more than two hours and allowing controllers to sleep and then slowly regain alertness before resuming their duties. ❋ Andy Pasztor (2011)

In the end ... it was worth every one of the recuperative forty winks we got. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For many years, minted herbal teas have enjoyed the reputation of providing recuperative powers to both the body and to the mind. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Law students continuously surprise me in their capacity to respond to the humanities, and...when I teach my courses in law and literature, it is really seen as a healing or a recuperative experience both for the students and for me because I think that what a legal education does, to paraphrase another author, is that it sharpens the mind by narrowing it." ❋ Unknown (2011)

HgH provides incredible healing and recuperative effects. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Along with the recuperative burst of well being that a steaming hot cup of tea with mint gives us, there is the fresh taste it leaves in our mouths. ❋ Unknown (2009)

History shows that the deeper the recession, the sharper the recovery, and Mr. Obama was poised by take credit for the economy's natural recuperative powers. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Whether "fiscal errancy" includes tax incentives like the IBC is yet to be made clear, but even the policy world's language of crisis resolution tips discussion toward the punitive and away from the genuinely recuperative. ❋ Raymond Zhong (2011)

His patient was a remarkable woman — a unique human — a freak of nature, really: An immune system that overwhelmed any infection, recuperative powers that defy explanation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She did not have the expert's eye for the depth of chest, the wide nostrils, the recuperative lungs, and the muscles under their satin sheaths -- crypts of energy wherein lurked the chemistry of destruction. ❋ Unknown (2010)