promotive

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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

He found this action amazingly promotive of verbal accuracy.

From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele

This policy is not however fully carried out with merely constructive and promotive action.

From Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Prince, Samuel Henry

A word from him would have relieved them at any moment in the manner most acceptable to them and most promotive of peaceful results.

From The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Davis, Jefferson