promotive
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But it presented a casebook example of what every able banker knows, viz.: that greatest modern fortunes are made not by promotive spurts and manipulations, but by continuous manufacture and trade.
From Time Magazine Archive
Members: >Stately, handsome John A. Hastings, promotive vanguard of the great bonanza.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not till then can they be sure that their gifts will be promotive of good.
From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by George Fitzhugh
In the government of Ireland, his administration had been equally promotive of his master's interest, and that of the subjects committed to his care.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by David Hume
Freedom of discussion is highly promotive of the power of protection.
From Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat
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