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

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

Therefore he will have no divisions and sects over this point; rather he wills that such diversity of gifts and offices be promotive of unity.

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent by Luther, Martin

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

From Religion and the War by Various