promotive
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Members: >Stately, handsome John A. Hastings, promotive vanguard of the great bonanza.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Freedom of discussion is highly promotive of the power of protection.
From Diary in America, Series Two by Marryat, Frederick
Its influence is promotive of national selfishness, and makes against a brotherhood of nations.
From Religion and the War by Various
Henry May, a member of Congress, who had introduced a resolution which he hoped would be promotive of peace, was another of those arrested and thrown into prison.
From The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Davis, Jefferson
