"I had the surgery because it bettered my life," she says.
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Commerzbank's has bettered last year's anaemic 3% only once since 2011.
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And then, he completely bettered himself and he's in medical school.
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It only bettered me as a person, like absolutely no regrets.
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Form guide: Brazil's form going to Russia could hardly be bettered.
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She has had a hard, untidy life bettered by a game.
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Britain's performance bettered the euro zone's for the second month running.
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The firm also forecasted a 2020 profit that bettered previous estimates.
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Her finish at the Isle of Wight bettered two previous world bests.
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Plus: inscrutable gym PowerPoints, friending Mark Zuckerberg, and a bettered-flavored mayo.
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Miles said six events in 2016 bettered or matched previous attendance records.
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Trump bettered his image with 2628 percent of respondents at Monday night's event.
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Jose Bautista's flip from the 2015 division series has yet to be bettered.
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As an introduction to genres go, I don't know that it's ever been bettered.
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The PMI reading bettered the euro zone's for the first time since December 2018.
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But man can only imitate what these most industrious creatures do; they can't bee bettered.
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Biden equaled or bettered Hillary Clinton's totals against Sanders in 2016 almost across the board.
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Australia has 21 Wimbledon men's singles champions, bettered only by the United States and Britain.
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Neither Khaled nor Drake, nor, possibly, all of Toronto has bettered it but who could?
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They've bettered their care, gone on to do other projects, and they've started other advocacy work.
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Sri Lankan bonds have been among the best performing globally, only bettered by Argentina and Chile.
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Ledecky, 18, bettered her mark of 8:13, set at the 2015 world championships in Russia.
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However, Tesco shares advanced 1% as near-flat Christmas sales still bettered its main rivals' performance.
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In a lively battle, Anthony Joshua bettered Dillian Whyte, knocking him out in the seventh round.
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Frankly, any editorial process would be bettered by somebody as smart, decent, engaged, as he is.
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That bettered the 5 cent per share profit that analysts, on average, had expected, according to Refinitiv.
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Just take Samsung and LG. They bettered the Japanese in terms of knowing how to manufacture batteries.
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Rodriguez bettered his record to 7-1, giving up five hits, walking one and striking out five.
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Bruce Bochy bettered Dave Roberts, his former outfielder and the new Dodgers manager, in their first matchup.
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It might seem like impertinence, not to say blasphemy, to suggest that Shakespeare could ever be bettered.
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He bettered the mark of 20 goals in 463 games set by Pavel Bure in 1991-92.
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Unlike some other ex-felons, he said, he had bettered himself and contributed to the local economy.
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The 17-year-old bettered McKeon's Games record of one minute and 1003 seconds set four years ago.
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In all, Miami's 21 220-pointers at a 21997 percent clip bettered a previous franchise high of 298.
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He bettered Marco Sturm, who managed 59 with the Boston Bruins and San Jose Sharks in 2005-06.
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During practice at the Michigan pool in 1936, Kiefer bettered the American record for the 100-yard backstroke.
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Thanks to these incentives, both the men's and women's world records have been bettered within the last two years.
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So far he has lost just 20 games - a record only bettered by the 19 he lost in 2012.
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Plenty of experiences can be bettered by a good playlist: a party, a workout, and yes, even giving birth.
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Boston announced Thursday that only those who bettered the qualifying times by 23:223 would be accepted for 22017.
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Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa bettered McNamara's mark in 2017, again at Nazare, by conquering an 80-foot wave (24.38m).
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Djokovic is through to his eighth Wimbledon semi-final, an achievement bettered by only three players in the Open Era.
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Johnson collected his 12th PGA Tour title since joining the tour in 2008, a record bettered only by Tiger Woods.
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Other reasons have to do with creating a Utopian society that is "bettered" through time-saving devices that are automated.
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The song is meant to reflect on a life bettered by a loving relationship — something Shelton can certainly relate to.
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Its great ideas have been nicked and bettered elsewhere; it's been robbed of the perceptual advantages of its own release.
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Adjusted net income of 35 cents per share bettered the average analyst estimate of 33 cents per share, according to Refinitiv.
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That propelled him towards a record $110,914 tally, a mark that would last eight days before Mr Holzhauer bettered it himself.
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Quarterly adjusted earnings of $1.63 per share bettered a consensus estimate of $1.59 per share, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.
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Coleman's time bettered the recognized world record of 4003 seconds, first set 20 years ago by 2000 Olympic champion Maurice Greene.
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While Kuchar fired a 7-under 64, no other player bettered 67, with five players tied in second at 4 under.
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"It was more about pride than technique, I felt," said Ito, whose 1998 Japanese record of 10.00 seconds Kiryu bettered on Saturday.
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Mr Murray cruised through the event, losing just two sets—an achievement that only Mr Federer has bettered at Wimbledon since 2000.
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At 17 years 253 days, he bettered the mark set by Juan Agudelo (17 years 218 days) against South Africa in 210.
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Lyles has broken through in the past two years and bettered Usain Bolt's Paris Diamond League record for 200 metres last month.
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The actual figure is only nine, a defensive record bettered only by Manchester City and Manchester United and matched only by Spurs.
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The 11 strikeouts bettered by one his previous single-game high, which he set against the New York Yankees on May 6.
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This season's "heroes," as the episode subjects are called, are all bettered by the Fab Five's shower of compliments and self-improvement advice.
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Even after Mr Kipchoge bettered the record by another eight years' worth, that leaves more than a decade of similar improvement to go.
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We are all Americans -- not reduced by the tremendous diversity of those who came to this county but bettered and bolstered by it.
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"I had confidence; I had faith," said Truex, who bettered Jim Paschal's mark of leading 335 laps to win at Charlotte in 1967.
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Koepka's 2340-hole total of 2350-under 22013 bettered by one stroke the tournament's absolute scoring record, set in 2001 by David Toms.
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As a study of the life and times of one of the greatest conductors of all time, this book will not soon be bettered.
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Dillashaw's last moment in the sun came when he bettered his UFC 173 showing against Barao in their rematch in Chicago back in July.
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Sometimes a song can be bettered, which is what happened when The Waterboys covered "Sweet Thing" (listen below) for their 1988 album Fisherman's Blues.
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Analysts at Goldman Sachs say it is the best year since 2009 and has only been bettered 5 times in the past 30 years.
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And while the sequel may not have complicated or significantly bettered any aspect of its predecessor, it's a "dancer" that maintains the party spirit.
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If the price is matched or bettered, the trade will be executed, which offers an alternative to a traditional OWIC or BWIC, said Naboicheck.
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A 67% discount is pretty extraordinary, and something we would be surprised to see bettered in the upcoming Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales.
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Guerrero, the son of 2018 Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Vladimir Guerrero, in the first round bettered Oakland's Matt Chapman, who had 13 homers.
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But this year I found that I've bettered myself, I'm happy with myself and I've done all the important things I needed to do.
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It was the second-fastest ever 200m by a European, only bettered by Italian Pietro Mennea's altitude-assisted 19.72 set in Mexico in 1979.
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Both of those players have won less than 228% of return points in the same period, a rate bettered by all of the remaining 270.
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During 210, only 21.34 to 243 percent of active domestic, large-cap managers bettered their benchmark indexes, according to data culled from a Morningstar database.
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The 21-year-old's time bettered the 27.06 seconds which her compatriot Zhao Jing swam in a bodysuit at the Rome world championships in 2009.
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His spending spree has bettered life for the working class Turks who make up Mr. Erdogan's political base, erecting hospitals, schools, roads and other infrastructure.
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Chepkirui's time was initially reported as 29:42, which would have meant she bettered fellow Kenyan Joyciline Jepkosgei's record set in Prague three years ago.
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They are unashamed nostalgists, and Homework began a career of re-calibrating their musical heritage into a bizarre and never-bettered voice of their own.
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Sagan, the three-time defending world champion, took the overall lead of the Tour after he bettered about a dozen other sprinters to win Stage 2.
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Gaviria had already bettered Sagan in a sprint to take the opening stage, amid rising expectations since his four stage victories at last year's Giro d'Italia.
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South Korean Kang tamed the whipping winds, racking up six birdies in a 68 that was bettered by only one player, Danny Lee, who shot 67.
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The 20-year-old also bettered the 5km road world record by reaching the halfway mark of the World Athletics Gold Label event in 13:18.
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"But it wasn't just true for me, it's true of tens of millions of women whose lives were dramatically impacted and bettered because of Girl Scouts."
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Mike L—Michael L. Williams I—one of fifteen siblings, bettered his lot by learning about computer networks during a stint in the Marines, in the seventies.
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Taken from Virgil's Aeneid, the inscription reads: Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes, loosely translated as, 'And they who bettered life on earth by their newly found mastery.
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McCarron, the Charles Schwab Cup leader, actually bettered Short on the day, finishing with a 5-under 65 in the final round — the best round of the day.
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But it is remarkable to note how over time the iPhone has equalled or bettered the technological Swiss-army-knife approach that Japanese manufacturers long applied to their handsets.
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This month, Manchester City announced record revenues of 535 million pounds, about $689 million, a figure bettered in English soccer only by its more established city rival Manchester United.
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The 22-year-old's European Championships performance had been the best score recorded this season until he bettered it by 0.107 in front of a raucous crowd in Stuttgart.
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Of the first 19 players on the leaderboard, only Spieth, Rory McIlroy (68), Gary Woodland (69), Jamie Lovemark (69) and Chan Kim (68) bettered par in the second round.
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He puts up the kinds of statistics that suggest steady, high-level contribution; he's bettered five and a half wins above replacement in four of his six Major League seasons.
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The same source estimates that Serie A includes four of the world's top 20 teams, a figure bettered only by Spain's La Liga and England's Premier League, each with five.
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Get a few of these apps and extensions to help you in your online shopping and you don't have to worry about paying a price that's going to be bettered elsewhere.
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Even though Shiffrin eased off slightly on the second run, when her time was bettered by two other skiers, nobody else could get near her total time of one minute 43.50.
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These business leaders bettered their companies with help from extraordinary authors that prompted them to do everything from rethink cloud computing to consider how to be a more socially responsible founder.
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This is not a bad thing, because as I mentioned when The Coalition's remake of the original game came out last year, Gears of War's template is yet to be bettered.
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Manyonga took the lead on his penultimate jump with a mark of 8.37 meters (about 63 feet 5 ½ inches), and during a tense final round, Henderson bettered it by 1 centimeter.
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The Northern Irishman shot six-under-par 66 in pleasant morning conditions at Bay Hill, a score that was surprisingly bettered by American Matt Every in more demanding strong afternoon winds.
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So while Bloomberg warned direly that Sanders would be a disastrous nominee and possibly guarantee Trump's victory, Bloomberg's presence onstage may have bettered Sanders's odds of getting to the general election.
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After an initial no-throw, the Croatian launched a huge second round throw of 69.67 meters, an effort that only she has bettered this year, to lead the qualifiers into Sunday's final.
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The new Fab Five are aspirationally empathetic and intersectional, and the people whom they meet and transform end up bettered ways they could never have imagined — as do we as an audience.
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The Dutch supplements and materials maker said first-quarter core earnings rose 19 percent to 296 million euros, beating expectations, as nutrition volumes grew and it bettered margins amid low commodity prices.
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Barca, the Cup holders and record winners, were drawn to play a Bilbao side whose 23 triumphs, their most recent in 1984 against Barca, are only bettered by the Catalan club's 27.
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If it wins four of its five remaining games it will have completed at least the third finest campaign in English history, bettered only by City last year and, potentially, City this.
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As a record of what American life feels like right now, of the effects of the current American insanity on the central nervous system, it is unlikely to be bettered this year.
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"This was a good showing for a month of December, equaled or bettered in only three of the last 13 years," said Marc Pinsonneault, a senior economist at National Bank of Canada.
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Even with the loss, the Islanders head into the postseason having won six of their last 10 (6-3-281), a mark bettered only by the Penguins and Panthers (282-22003-204).
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Indeed, Pepperell remained on-site for a couple of hours until his 72-hole score had been bettered, before heading to his car for the long drive back down south of the border.
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Stanford, which has won five straight, entered the day ranked second in N.C.A.A. Division I in field-goal defense at 31 percent and bettered that mark Saturday, holding the Wildcats to 21 percent.
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Liu Youbin, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said at a press conference on Thursday that China had bettered its carbon intensity reduction target for 2018 by 0.1 percentage points.
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Is it a total bettered only by Sergio Agüero, putting Salah ahead of Harry Kane and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and the rest of the billions of dollars of strikers in the Premier League?
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"It's still a little bit stiff, but that's just the way it's going to be," he told reporters after a round that bettered only two players in the 120-man field at Liberty National.
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Takanashi, 19, soared 104.0 meters for a hill record at Obertsdorf, and she bettered the mark with the day's longest jump at 107.0 meters for 278.5 points to defeat Daniela Iraschko-Stolz of Austria.
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The idea that radical biotechnology can lead to longer lifespans than that of Jeanne Calment, a French woman whose recorded lifespan of 122 years has never been bettered, seems at best a plausible speculation.
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Loch was still grinning in the leaders' booth as his rivals took their turns but he was noticeably surprised when Mazdzer bettered his time with a scintillating 47.534-second run to leap into second.
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Up next for Nadal will be No. 22 seed and 2014 champion Marin Cilic of Croatia, who bettered the highest-ranked American man, John Isner, 7-5, 3-6, 7-6(8), 6-4.
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From beginnings in Oscar + Martin and Brothers Hand Mirror, to his collaboration with Andras Fox—Andras & Oscar—and his four solo EPs, each release has bettered the last with fresher and more confident sounds.
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If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many lives are bettered, you know it is hard and some people think it is boring.
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And while he may not have worked out at Bayern—he left the club not long after—he's been stellar for the German national team, where only two players have bettered his whopping 129 appearances.
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Only a quarter of UK-focused equity funds have bettered the performance of the FTSE 350, a broad gauge of British stocks comprising large and mid-cap companies, data from fund tracker FE Trustnet shows.
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Her marathon debut at New York in 2010 landed her second, the highest-placing performance for an American woman at the race in 20 years, a performance bettered only by her victory seven years later.
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His 69 on Friday bettered his level-par effort on day one of the tournament, but it was not without incident, most notably, having dropped a shot on the 12th, his tee shot on the 13th.
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Dwight Howard posted a 12-point, 10-rebound double-double for the Rockets, who bettered Golden State in 3-pointers, making 153 of 25, but fell well short from shorter range, finishing at 44.3 percent overall.
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Dwight Howard posted a 12-point, 10-rebound double-double for the Rockets, who bettered Golden State in 3-pointers, making 10 of 25, but fell well short from shorter range, finishing at 44.3 percent overall.
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Downing 85 cupfuls — eight-ounce size — in 7 hours and 15 minutes, Gus won back the title from H. A. Street of Amarillo, Texas, whose 71-cup record recently had bettered Comstock's old mark of 62.
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On the opening day of the athletics competition on Tuesday, Jamaican discus thrower Fedrick Dacres wiped out one of the Pan Am Games oldest records with a toss of 67.68m that bettered the mark set in 1983.
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But it will offer Mr. Nézet-Séguin and Ms. Netrebko's first full production together, and an opening night cast — also including Ms. Rachvelishvili, Piotr Beczala and Ludovic Tézier — that probably can't be bettered in the world today.
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The program is an incredible success and Dreamers (undocumented individuals present in the USA who arrived as youth) throughout our country came out of the shadows, bettered their lot, contributed to our economy and paid their taxes.
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He could not be faulted for consistency, clocking an identical time to his 26.66 seconds in the semi-finals of the non-Olympic distance, but he might have bettered his world record of 43 with a better start.
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Hagino bettered his own Japan record in the 200 meter individual medley at the national championships, which concluded on Sunday, one of four events the 21-year-old will take part in at the Brazil Games in August.
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This month marks 20 years since the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, a piece of paper sealed in a US courtroom that changed the face of smoking forever and won an incredible, staggering, never-bettered $365 billion legal victory.
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The performance at high altitude in Albuquerque was particularly pleasing for Coleman after he had bettered Greene's world record time with a run of 6.37 seconds last month in South Carolina, but was not ratified for technical reasons.
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The swim also eclipsed compatriot Eamon Sullivan's mark of 47.05 seconds at the Beijing Games in 2008, a then-world record only bettered by Alain Bernard (46.94) and current holder Cesar Cielo (46.91) in synthetic suits the following year.
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Top-of-the-line technicians, deeply versed in tradition and seriously charming, Mr. Smith and Mr. Grant could hardly be bettered as partners to exemplify swing — and to show how a return to roots can also push the envelope.
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Britain's performance bettered the euro zone's for the second month running, as the PMI suggested the world's fifth-largest economy looked on track to grow around 62753% in quarterly terms after it slowed to a crawl late last year.
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The win also bettered India's previous record victory - a 24-19803 win over the United States at the 1932 Olympics - but was some way short of New Zealand's 39-0 victory over Papua New Guinea at the Oceania Cup in 2007.
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The time, which bettered her meet record of 10.013 from 2016, left Fraser-Pryce delighted with her form two weeks before the Jamaican trials with her bid for a fourth 100m world title to come in Doha later this year.
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But instead of accepting the seemingly inevitable, Echevarria responded by first jumping 8.36 to move back into the lead and then, after Manyonga responded with 8.44, bettered what was already a personal best to win with a fifth jump of 8.46.
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The Lightning exploded Friday for three goals in the first 10 minutes of a 213-228 home win over the Chicago Blackhawks, and they bettered that output Sunday, scoring four times in the opening 25:22 against Devils goalie Cory Schneider.
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The French world record holder, one of the great figures of race walking, produced the second fastest walk in history, 240 hours 237 minutes 12 seconds — a time only he has bettered — with arguably the performance of the entire World Championships.
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Koxa won the "Biggest Wave" award for successfully managing the huge swell off Nazaré on Portugal's Silver Coast on November 8, his ride adjudged to have bettered American Garrett McNamara's record of 78 feet at the same break in 2011.
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Even though the Brazilian was forced from his first bout with 'The Notorious', there are a lot of people suggesting that the Irishman would be bettered suited to moving to the 155 lbs ranks than dropping back down to featherweight.
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She bettered her 2013 quarterfinal showing — when she was blanked, 6-23, 6-0, by Serena Williams on her birthday — but was unable to bait a prudent, patient Keys into enough errors to pull ahead at any point in the match.
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Britain's performance bettered the euro zone's for the first time since December 2018, as the PMI suggested the world's fifth-largest economy looked on track to grow around 0.2% in quarterly terms after it slowed to a crawl late last year.
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The world number 10, making his first start since the Presidents Cup, flashed midseason form at the El Camaleon Golf Club in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico with a round that was bettered only by Kizzire (62) and Vaughn Taylor (64).
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The firm said the game bettered Nintendo's "Mario Kart Tour," which saw 90 million installs in the first week of launch, and "Pokemon Go," which was downloaded 85.5 million times in the first week of its debut in August 2016.
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The firm's PC shipments for the fiscal year to March 31, dropped 1 percent year-on-year to 55.7 million units, though it bettered a wider market decline of 3 percent, Lenovo said in its full-year filing in May.
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Hancock loves to win in style — he set a new Olympic record at Beijing and bettered it at London — and recent form favors the 27-year-old to complete a golden hat-trick at the Shooting Centre in the Olympic Deodoro complex.
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"India will be eternally grateful to Shri Manohar Parrikar for his tenure as our Defence Minister ... India witnessed a series of decisions that enhanced India's security capacities, boosted indigenous defense production and bettered the lives of ex-servicemen," Prime Minister Modi tweeted.
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On July 8, 1889, John L. Sullivan bettered Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds of what is widely accepted as a historic last: the final bare-knuckle heavyweight championship fight before gloved boxing became the preferred, and officially sanctioned, form of the sport.
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The Charlotte Hornets, with a game left to play, have already bettered last season's win total by 14, and with a top-10 offense and defense, they figure to present a formidable obstacle to whichever team draws them in the first round.
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The French world record holder, one of the great figures of race walking, produced the second fastest walk in history, 403 hours 240 minutes 237 seconds — a time only he has bettered — with one of the performances of the entire World Championships.
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But after a physiologist revamped his once-leisurely training, adding some strenuous pedaling, Mr. Marchand decisively bettered his own records and, at the age of 103, set a new world mark for the most miles pedaled in an hour by a centenarian.
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Donald Trump quintuples down Trump's performance at Monday night's debate was widely panned, and a CNN/ORC poll taken immediately after the event found 62% of voters who turned in to watch said Clinton bettered Trump, whom only 27% said had the better night.
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Lee Se-dol has had an experience that almost no one else can relate to, and that he would never have imagined coming — the slow, agonizing realization that the talent that brought him fame and fortune could be bettered by a sequence of ones and zeroes.
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ET, Pac-12 Network ABOUT WASHINGTON STATE (9-18, 33-14 Pac-12): Ike Iroegbu's offense seems to have abandoned him down the stretch, as the guard is averaging 13.5 points but hasn't bettered that number in the last five games, including four straight in single digits.
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Volkanovski's impressive three-round decision win over Jose Aldo at UFC 237 in Brazil in May was bettered only when he outpointed the long-reigning UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway with an authoritative stand-up strategy consisting of expert footwork, fluid feints, and intuitive distance management.
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Bayern expects to win the Bundesliga — both Kovac and Ancelotti did so, and found it counted for nothing when their futures were weighed — and with good reason: The club remains a financial juggernaut, generating $385 million a year in commercial revenue, a figure bettered globally only by Real Madrid.
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Though hardly on a par with the Russian Constructivist Vladimir Tatlin's designs for the tilted, open-worked spiral tower of his "Monument to the Third International" (1920), "Light Prop" exudes a similar optimism for a world not only bettered by technical know-how but set on a whole new footing.
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Above: The trailer for 2018's 'Shadow of the Colossus' It's a game, as you probably know, of titanic creatures, "bosses" (though they're more puzzling than said term implies) that must be battled, and bettered, in a simple, quiet story of love losing its way and finishing up in a truly dark place.
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As the title character in "Dear Evan Hansen," a lonely teenager who inadvertently becomes a social media sensation and a symbol of the kindness that is often cruelly absent in high school hallways, the marvelous young actor Ben Platt is giving a performance that's not likely to be bettered on Broadway this season.
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Sitting somewhere between the never-bettered shuffle of 2-step at it's wonkiest and the contemporary clang and clank of forward-thinking club music, "I,U, Us (Murlo Remix)" is a gloriously gloopy slammer that's going to sound absolutely perfect when you hear it over the weekend whilst cradling a pair of vodka and lemonades.
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It came out in passages like this, when Bill compared his own star power with Hillary's dogged work ethic: If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many lives are bettered, you know, it is hard, and some people think it is boring.
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Born in County Donegal, Duffy entered the UFC with much fanfare when he signed with the promotion in early 2015—his extra attention largely due to being one of the few men to have ever bettered now-global superstar Conor McGregor in the cage: an arm-triangle choke within 40 seconds under the CageWarriors banner in 2010.
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Belgium, who bettered their fourth-place finish in 1986, were greeted by tens of thousands of enthusiastic flag waving fans, some climbing street signs and traffic lights to catch a glimpse of the players who rode in on open-top buses along the streets of central Brussels, before heading to the city's picturesque Grand Place square.
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But under Mr. Lapine's astute direction, and with a cast rarely bettered in a musical revival, "Falsettos" felt both like a disorienting trip in a time capsule — to the dark days when AIDS was claiming the lives of gay men by the thousands — and a remarkably prescient portrait of American life today, when the boundaries between what constitutes "normal" and not remain painfully divisive.
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In a true tour de force that is hardly likely to be bettered on Broadway this season (apologies to the magnificent Mark Rylance, and those two knights, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, performing Beckett and Pinter in repertory), Mr. Mays sings, dances, ice-skates, bicycles and generally romps through some eight roles — flipping among personas male, female and somewhere in between — at a pace that sets your head spinning.
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While Republicans in many states engage in massive attacks against voting rights, and Republicans in many states engage in aggressive campaigns of voter suppression against poor and minority voters, Steyer and NextGen America are among those coming to the rescue of democracy by walking in the footsteps of the founding fathers, suffragettes and the civil rights giants — including many Republicans in better times — who bettered the nation with the Voting Rights Act that is now under fierce attack.
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