1.   If you use straw as bedding for farm animals, generally speaking you improve the welfare of those animals.

2.   Mellor is an animal ethicist who is respected for his work in improving animal welfare in New Zealand.

3.   Punishing legal immigrants never had anything to do with the work incentives and requirements that most people associate with improving welfare.

4.   Since the work began, Muscovites have engaged in an ongoing debate over whether scarce public money should be spent on restoring buildings or improving social welfare.

5.   The goal of the market-state is not to improve the welfare of the nation but to maximize the opportunity for its citizens.

6.   After nine years of Social Democratic rule, the Danish electorate in November voted in the Liberals and Conservatives who promised to tighten immigration laws and improve welfare.

7.   Chinese leaders have responded with programs to improve social welfare, campaigns to promote communist thrift and a police crackdown on migrants without work.

8.   He offered little in new initiatives to create jobs and improve social welfare.

9.   Like his predecessor, Yevgeny Primakov, Stepashin pledged to concentrate on improving social welfare, increasing domestic production and fighting economic crime.

10.   Many projects have been and will continue to be planned and implemented in order to improve the welfare of the East Timor community.