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1794 J. Owen Retrospect 65 If the remediation of defects be the innocent objects of clamorous patriotism..let them intermit those ill-timed remonstrances.

1818 J. Bentham Church-of-Englandism Pref. 54 On this subject, and on this state of things, remediation..requires that something should be said.

1839 G. Everest Series of Lett. to Duke of Sussex x. 141 As I am one of those who think the steel chain a very uncertain implement of measurement, it will not be a matter of surprise that I should..look on the remediation of this as another of the advantages.

1920 G. Young New Germany i. 5 What people in England wanted to know was whether the German revolution..had gone far enough and deep enough to be a sincere repentance and a sufficient remediation.

1942 Wisconsin Rep. 238 573 Neither the state board of health nor the state committee on water pollution is obliged to postpone action until the health of a community is impaired... The..power of these bodies extends to prevention as well as to the remediation of conditions which are destructive of the public health.

1973 Oversight Hearing on Noise Control Act: Hearing U.S. Senate Commerce Comm. ( 93rd Congr., 1st Sess.) 170 Schools located in the vicinity of airports, and particularly those..directly under air traffic paths, suffer repeated intrusion from aircraft noise... The remediation of the problems identified..focused upon remedial construction of school buildings... There is very little support available from governmental agencies for the remediation of noise pollution problems in the nation's schools.

2007 M. Matchinske in M. M. Dowd & J. A. Eckerle Genre & Women's Life Writing in Early Mod. Eng. v. 76 Iteration as it is construed in early modern women's diary writing also seems to be responding..to a history that is in need of active and continual remediation.

1850 Trans. Amer. Med. Assoc. 3 120 One of the most common errors consists in..the restless change of the mode of remediation, so that a medicine is not permitted to make a permanent impression, before a new article is substituted.

1871 Practitioner Mar. 143 Alkaline and bran baths..prepare the way for a more effective plan of remediation.

1874 Lancet 19 Dec. 886/2 Within the last few years a number of new remedies or plans of remediation have been advocated..for the treatment of leprosy.

1920 Pennsylvania Med. Jrnl. Oct. 16/2 The prime objective in all remediation is to find and remove the pathogenic organism.

1933 School Rev. 41 450 A number of public schools and colleges have organized programs of remediation in an attempt to overcome deficiencies in the students' background preparation.

1967 H. Grobman in A. C. Ornstein Accountability for Teachers (1973) ii. 31 Deficits in reading or arithmetic..provide far different remediation problems in early elementary grades than in middle school.

1978 M. T. Erickson Child Psychopathol. x. 220 Most remediation teachers are employed by school systems.

1995 A. Baxter et al. in M. Lewis & M. Bendersky Mothers, Babies, & Cocaine xvii. 341 Remediation is utilized when there is an identifiable problem in the child that can be changed.

2003 N.Y. Mag. 9 June 32/1 Many kids come to me with tons of remediation behind them.

1980 Hazardous Chem. under Federal Water Pollution Control Act: Hearings U.S. House Public Works & Transportation Comm. (96th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 45 I am suggesting..we have identified toxic waste dumps that have a priority remediation.

1986 Land Econ. 62 41/2 To determine which type of remediation should be undertaken..it is necessary to assess their health risk reductions.

1991 Highway & Heavy Constr. Oct. 5/1 Conflicting government regulations..are keeping environmental remediation out of reach of the average contractor.

1992 Tucson (Arizona) Weekly 15 Apr. 12/2 Options for remediation include vapor extraction..and a technique that causes hydrocarbons to be burned off by cooking the soil.

2004 Miami Herald (Nexis) 24 Mar. 2 b A special panel that will oversee the remediation and resanctification of Menorah Gardens cemeteries.

2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Oct. i. 12/3 Offending sites..are either already capped or under remediation.