salutary

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Gibbon, no democrat, spent much of his time reading voraciously and carried some English biases and feuds into his writing, but he illuminated Augustus’ strategies in ways that America’s framers found sobering, cautionary and salutary.

From Salon

Finally, the Espionage Act is a strict liability law, meaning that a defendant’s intentions — whether salutary, malevolent, purely selfish or some combination thereof — are entirely irrelevant.

From Salon

“I do think that, ultimately, it’s a salutary thing,” she says of the entertainment industry’s newfound race consciousness.

From Los Angeles Times

We are better prepared now, in part through a salutary reform of the Electoral Count Act.

From Salon

For most in the audience, that aim will prove entirely unobjectionable, for some even salutary.

From New York Times