Salutary

It was there, in the moments after 9/11, that Bush truly decided on war, maybe because Saddam had once tried to kill George H.W. Bush, maybe because the neocons had convinced him that a brief war in Iraq would have long-term salutary consequences for the entire Middle East, maybe because he could not abide the thought that a monster like Saddam might die in his sleep -- and maybe because he heard destiny calling. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While government intervention often has a short-term salutary effect, making it irresistible to politicians, in the end all governments—including our own—have had to conclude that more fundamental solutions are needed to attack the root of the problem, not just the symptoms. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

That had a certain salutary effect on the other nations and I hope it does not disturb you if I say that the break up of the empire by the United States led directly to the next sequence in the story: the break-away of another overseas colony or community, or communities. ❋ Unknown (1966)

How delightful and salutary is the morning hour under such an advantage? ❋ Unknown (1874)

"CBN has also undertaken initiatives that it hopes will have a medium to long term salutary effect on the nigerian economy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Several pages of this book recall the salutary rigour of the Dragonades; and that odious passage, in which a man distinguished for his talents and his private virtues, the Count de Maistre (Soirees de St. Petersbourg tome 2 page 121) justifies the Inquisition of Portugal “which he observes has only caused some drops of guilty blood to flow.” ❋ Unknown (1851)

Nor let us believe, with the dupes, of a shallow policy, that there exists upon the earth one prejudice that can be called salutary or one error beneficial to perpetrate. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

Several pages of this book recall the salutary rigour of the Dragonades; and that odious passage, in which a man distinguished for his talents and his private virtues, the Count de Maistre (Soirees de St. Petersbourg tome 2 page 121) justifies the Inquisition of ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)

No desire is entertained to justify all the zeal and all the means which are employed to prevent the free exercise of the human mind, in its researches after divine knowledge, and to retard the influx of that light which would prove unfavourable to doctrines which have little more than prescription for their support; but it seems reasonable to make a proper distinction between what may be called a salutary principle in the human mind, and a wrong application or an erroneous indulgence of it. ❋ Hosea Ballou (1811)

We are to offer salutary, which is not always pleasing counsel: we are to inquire and to accuse; and the objects of our inquiry and charge will be for the most part persons of wealth, power, and extensive connections: we are to make rigid laws for the preservation of revenue, which of necessity more or less confine some action or restrain some function which before was free: what is the most critical and invidious of all, the whole body of the public impositions originate from us, and the hand of the House of ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)

Indeed the effect is quite as likely to be salutary, if "salutary" be taken to mean favorable to the maintenance of the established order, since the insincerity is guided by a wish to avoid any lesion of the received preconceptions and prejudices. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Which of all the "salutary" signs that appear upon the coins of ❋ John Denham Parsons (N/A)

Olive inquired, looking at her friend with a kind of salutary coldness -- a suspension of sympathy -- with which Verena was now familiar (though she liked it no better than at first), and which made approbation more gracious when approbation came. ❋ Henry James (1879)

What one really requires is a kind of salutary terror. ❋ Henry James (1879)

Amid tensions between the Christian west and the Islamic east, a common focus on Jesus - and what Khalidi calls a "salutary" reminder of when Christianity and Islam were more open to each other and willing to rely on each other's witness - could help close the growing divide between the world's two largest faiths. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Before addressing the various "Thou shalt nots," it is often salutary to look at the "Thou shalts" and the "Thou might want tos." ❋ Unknown (2011)

It went further, emphasising the salutary effect machine guns would have on the mob that had taken the fair city of Oakland by the throat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The scene of the crime, Schemmer had argued, was the best possible place for the punishment, and, in addition, it would have a salutary influence upon the half-thousand Chinagos on the plantation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Also, while aware that poverty was anything but delectable, she had a comfortable middle-class feeling that poverty was salutary, that it was a sharp spur that urged on to success all men who were not degraded and hopeless drudges. ❋ Unknown (2010)

foregoing from his [place] [will] be salutary for all ❋ Meismubin (2017)