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

I, 8, an apology for the moral wholesomeness of civilization, since promotive of military prowess, favorable to the development of the sciences, and even poetical.

From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)

What is unwholesome is wrong; what is promotive of health and completeness for the individual and for the community is right.

From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by McCarty, Louis Philippe

Its influence is promotive of national selfishness, and makes against a brotherhood of nations.

From Religion and the War by Various