Sentence examples for Once fostered from inspiring English sources

He has been playing a double game, arresting hundreds of members of the groups he once fostered but quietly freeing most of them soon afterward.

A lot is happening in new classical music, but the economic and social realities that once fostered the performance of music in concert halls no longer support that system of distribution.

More important, ethnicity, once fostered, was frequently a counterweight to, rather than a bulwark of, Communist ideology; although Stalin remained rhetorically committed to the multi-state idea, he ended up terrorizing those ethnic leaders he saw as threats.

And all this despite rapid increases in education that have given more of us than ever before the skills, the resources and the interests that once fostered civic engagement".

Signs that the attacks were mounted from Pakistan by people linked to an Islamic militant group once fostered by the Pakistani military and intelligence threatened to inflame tensions that the two countries had been trying to reduce.

They argue that this was the norm before the Neolithic revolution, that promiscuity had once fostered coöperation and reduced violence among our tribal ancestors, and that a false belief in the "naturalness" of monogamy is responsible for myriad social ills: nineteenth-century foundling hospitals, the stoning of women in Iran, the destruction of numerous American political careers.

The city of Oxford, Pullman once wrote, fosters the imagination: "I put it down to the mists from the river, which have a solvent effect on reality".

And when crisis occurs, countries will often find themselves muddling through a nasty period of adjustment, until a new global system develops which once again fosters stable growth.I have to say, I find this a very tempting way to interpret global economic history.

Earlier this month, when Goldman Sachs reported record quarterly profits — and prepared to pay juicy bonuses — it was widely, and correctly, noted that the firm was leading the way back to a future in which outsized pay for short-term gains could once again foster excessive risk taking.

It's a world away from even my own village, and a lovely reminder of the kind of atmosphere that can be fostered once consumerism is removed from the equation.

"Once, they even fostered a young boy, Rakash, whose parents had been killed.