"are engendered by" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that has been caused or generated by some other factor. For example: "The feelings of mistrust and animosity between the two countries are engendered by a long history of conflict."
In Hume's language, universal traits like benevolence, kindliness, and love for one's children are "natural" virtues, while socially necessary traits like courage, honesty, justice, and loyalty are "artificial" virtues; that is, they are engendered by our need to live with one another.
The author of three books and numerous short stories and poems, she opened a window to her soul and taught us how, with love and compassion, we can survive and even flourish through unspeakable horrors, whether they are engendered by the Holocaust or by family illness.
The most well characterised enzymatic activities contributing to this process are engendered by zinc-dependent metalloproteinases.
Neo-liberal urban policies are engendered by the nexus between mobile investment capital, inter-city competition, and public entrepreneurialism.
A direct measure of pharmaceutical utilization in pharmaceutical studies provides the means to examine the temporal patterns of drug response that are engendered by patients' actual dosing patterns, and to characterize more accurately exposure response relationships.
The study claims that the dynamics between self and culture which leads to ontogenetic development are engendered by semiotic-affective social interactions; and that the quality of such interactions is the product of a long history of social mediation of self-meaning processes.
Ms. Wallach also discusses Picasso's Neo-classicism as if it had been engendered by the war.
A fictional character is engendered by artistic compassion and artistic ruthlessness.
As has now been widely documented, all this suffering was engendered by the incompetence of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
(The legend involves even weirder biology: two of these quads were Jupiter's, two were engendered by a human king).
The industrialization that had occurred had been engendered by an imperial Russian market that no longer existed.
