Foster
foster (verb) - help develop and grow
carefully foster
carefully foster an image
carefully foster a progressive image
an image carefully fostered
help to foster
designed to foster
deliberately foster
foster attitudes
foster awareness
foster co-operation
foster higher standards
foster a concept
foster an approach
foster local knowledge
foster superstitions
fostered by Z
fostered the establishment of Z
fostered the founding of Y
foster the involvement of X
promote and foster contacts with teachers and friends in other countries
foster, not inhibit
foster the exercise of judgement
foster creative problem solving
fostered a very strong sense of Y
foster greater continuity between X and Y
foster a love of literature
foster lively debate
foster democracy
foster a spirit of cooperation
foster a revolutionary spirit
foster rapid economic growth
foster X's interest in Y
Example sentences:
* "Since colonial rule ended in 1959 the government has consistently adopted strong pro-business policies that have fostered rapid economic growth and infrastructural development."
* "Elena fostered Nicu's interest in nuclear physics."
* "Procedures are intended to foster and not inhibit the exercising of professional engineering judgement and creative problem solving."
* "The purpose of the project is to promote and foster contacts with teachers and friends in other countries."
* "He does suggest that his experiences in the Borinage fostered a revolutionary spirit in him."
* "Everyone connected with the club was encouraged to pull together as one big family, and Chapman fostered the spirit of cooperation by consulting his directors on team matters and winning the confidence of the players."
* "Yet their support work with pupils is an intimate part of the caring image the school has carefully fostered and a major encouragement to effective learning."
* "In addition to countering the increasingly corporate nature of the business, she also fostered the involvement of her own children and their friends."
* "Superstitions, which they themselves fostered, killed them."
* "This reflects, for instance, the attitudes fostered by the German standards office through the DIN (the Deutsche Industrie-Norm, or Industrial Standard)."
* "Thus the central bank of country A might buy currency B in order to keep the domestic exchange rate at a competitive level, whereas country B might simultaneously try to keep the value of its currency down by buying currency A. In this manner a lack of cooperation, fostered by a system of floating exchange rates, can lead to conflict and mutually frustrating policies."
* "Both are Asian capitalist nations existing in close proximity to very different political and economic systems; the awareness of a shared threat, fostered in particular by South Korea, does as much as anything to bring them together."
* "G.C. Allen, the doyen of British Japanologists, put it this way `;although government fostered growth in Japan = = it certainly did not and could not prescribe the policy to follow'; (1981 p.192, italics added)."
* "The special, complex mood communicated to the reader through this kind of romantic adventure has as its literary results a particular intensity of emotion fostered by a constant shift of pace, tension and suspense."
* "Local knowledge matters in these firms, it supports innovation, and thus it is to be fostered."
* "The planning process has fostered generally higher standards in all housing, particularly in technical matters and, perhaps, site layout."
* "His initiative in creating this body was soon to pay dividends, because it directly fostered the subsequent founding of a large number of local societies."
* "No one would want to foster the doubter's equivalent of a hypochondriac."
* "Democratic rights (such as press freedom or voting rights) merely foster social control over the hearts and minds of workers by virtue of capitalists' property resources."
* "He had hoped that the project would foster greater continuity between children's experience of learning in school, and their later experience in the world of work."
* One of the best means of promoting effective use of the English language, he claimed, was to foster a love of English literature.
* "In 1954 Britain had fostered the Baghdad Pact to create a band of friendly pro-Western states against the Soviet threat."
* "Many Palestinians also feared that the PLO leadership would not welcome the kind of lively debate and democracy which the popular movement had fostered, but would wish to be authoritarian in its government."
* "Thereafter Edward III, having learned some valuable political lessons, was able to develop a far greater degree of co-operation with his people, in particular with the fighting nobility, a spirit fostered by the two outstanding victories won at Crecy and Poitiers."
* "AIDS has fostered a very strong sense of pride and resolve in the gay community."
* "Crumbling of housing estates, ill-lit and hostile city centres and a dirty, rundown transport system with a reduced the numbers of guards, conductors and station staff, has all fostered the growth of crime."
* "The Library has fostered co-operation in information technology with the Department of Information Science."
* "If we foster this type of investigative approach, students will be successful in the investigations they undertake."
* "The concept of continuing professional development has been fostered by the Board of Fellows in its recent work and members should now keep records of all their reading, lectures, seminars and conferences attended in order to support applications they may wish to make in due course for upgrading to fellowship."
* "During this period she fostered, in association with the Child Guidance Service, the establishment of a team of teachers to provide extra help in Edinburgh primary schools for pupils with learning difficulties."
