Sentence examples for foster a mood of from inspiring English sources
A soundtrack by the Cure helps to foster a mood of ennui.
Rather than maintaining the prolonged atmosphere of conflict with North Korea, his "sunshine policy" sought to foster a mood of trust and reconciliation in inter-Korean relations, rather than seeking to bring down the northern regime with a hostile policy.[x] While not tolerating military provocations from the north, the policy rules out South Korea absorbing its northern neighbor.
That, in itself, seemed like a defeat for Archbishop Williams, whose strategy for the conference has rested on drawing as many of the disaffected conservatives as possible to Canterbury, and drawing them into a cloistered, no-press-admitted dialogue with liberals and reformers that would foster a mood of compromise on the issue of gays and lesbians in the clergy.
With all those white picket fences and gables and crinkling leaves and trees brooding with sinister maternity — to pilfer Eugene O'Neill's phrase — Tarrytown in fall literally looked like the set for the film "Halloween"; the fact that half the children born in the 1980s were named Jason also helped foster a mood of wholesome autumnal depravity.
"The degree to which the Obama administration was able to foster a mood of more collaboration, learn from your neighboring states who's found a way to make this work for business and taxpayers, I expect this will slow down a bit," he added.
All these helped foster a new mood of flag-waving patriotism well before the Falklands war.
But another part of the gamble is that the country has changed too: that the incipient recession has fostered a new mood of social solidarity, a yearning to "share the pain" of the downturn particularly if the pain is aimed at bankers and other much-loathed "spivs and speculators".
They foster an out-of-control climate.
Similarly, while Murakami novels are far from moralizing, they typically foster a kind of contemplative moral mood.
That is, a downturn in the economy and the terrorist attacks have converged to foster a level of uncertainty that made last year's conference -- already sober in mood because of the dot-com collapse -- seem upbeat.
