| Scarcity and abundance of resources are contractive and expansive of life's possibilities and probabilities. |
| The possibility of contractive remedies in the form of price undertakings has been explored. |
| The gas burner is made of a metal having great expansive and contractive properties. |
| And the doctor, by sundry tests and applications, showed the peculiar exhausted and contractive condition of the muscles. |
| The spirits are simply the expansive and ghosts, the contractive forces of the world. |
| Like the previous budgets of the past seven years, the spending plan is austere and is even likely to have a contractive effect on the economy. |
