Those who cross South Africa's borders do so mostly because they expect to better themselves.
One is that ambitious Chinese and Indians no longer have to come to Malaysia to better themselves.
Go somewhere and meet people outside the office in an environment where everyone is trying to better themselves.
Catholic communities without such guaranteed industrial jobs encouraged their children to better themselves through education, Dudley Edwards says.
The Liberal Democrat MSP said whilst she didn't seek to reward people for committing crimes it was only right to give them a chance to better themselves.
Livesey spent his life campaigning for the working classes - despite becoming rich selling cheese - opposing the workhouses in favour of giving the poor the chance to better themselves through education and abstinence.
It should be obvious there is something deeply wrong with our laws when someone like Casey Anthony can turn to the bankruptcy courts for a fresh financial start, but men and women who incurred debt in an effort to better themselves or their loved ones cannot get even a smidgeon of such aid.
Yet one fact not making news is that it is still the case that the highest marginal tax rates in America do not fall on the highest incomes, like Lefty, but on certain of the working poor, many of them single parents, who are being taxed at rates approaching 90% as they lose benefits attempting to better themselves.
They are doing so to better present themselves, to make better first impressions especially in working environments.
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These five million individuals must either lie to better position themselves to get hired, or accept that their unemployed status might be a permanent barrier to reentering the workforce.
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Following reports that Cyprus may be selling 400mm euros worth of its gold reserves to help finance its own fiscal problems, many are concerned that other European central banks will begin to sell-off their gold positions to better position themselves to fortify their own sovereign balance sheets.
To keep a pulse on the rapidly evolving solar market and better understand what companies need to do to better position themselves for the future, PwC has published the PV Sustainable Growth Index, a ranking of the largest publicly traded solar companies, for the last eight years.
In human swimmers, the invisible web of water allows them not to propel themselves faster, but to better lift themselves out of the water.
And even before states have received a single dime of taxpayer money, many of them have committed to instituting important reforms to better position themselves for a Race to the Top grant.
"That's why we all share a role in understanding the risks faced in the online world so we can empower those children and young people we work with to better protect themselves - so they can enjoy the internet but know how to stay safe at the same time, " he said.
Nor do they educate or inform network defenders in the government or private sector on how to better protect themselves.
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To better insinuate themselves into local society, they adopted Syrian-sounding names.
We have also enrolled those impacted by spam through checkpoints so they can remediate their accounts and learn how to better protect themselves while on Facebook.
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By doing so, they will be able to better prepare themselves for the uncertainty that lies ahead and save money in the event of a major market decline.
Congress included an enhanced whistleblower program in Dodd-Frank not only to help the government root out fraud but also to encourage corporations to better police themselves and address illegal conduct head on.
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While we cannot forecast with certainty the duration of the energy crisis in Thailand or its actual impact on production capacity, we can recommend some proactive steps that companies should take to better prepare themselves and their suppliers for these types of disruptions in the future.
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To make social business a reality this year, these consulting firms will have to better organize themselves into a full menu of social business services from helping their customers establish a vision for social business to building adoption and providing enablement, as well as developing metrics and measuring impact.
But, in examining all the proposals one cannot help but think that perhaps Bloomberg has identified an emerging culture where people are trying too hard to make city governments work better, instead of making cities themselves better places to work.
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New drugs have to prove themselves better than what's already out there in expensive clinical trials.
Few publications that are laying off editors are training their remaining staffers to edit themselves better.
Employees also have an obligation to learn on their own and actively try to make themselves better.
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Several state governments have changed their state laws to make themselves better positioned to receive the funds.
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The chancellor's pension reforms will ensure that 40% of the population cannot save enough to make themselves better off than his means-tested pension guarantee.
Ministers and once-trusted friends had scrambled to get out of the cabinet in recent weeks, apparently to position themselves better for positions in the new one.
It is hardly an interest, although they may speak of it very positively -- the better to tell themselves or others that they made a "wise" choice.
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