Spreading reason, tolerance, a love of liberty and humanity, they fostered a revolution of the mind, setting the world on its modern course.
Perhaps the Iron Chancellor means his 2013 plan to foster a green revolution by introducing a minimum price for carbon.
The United States has recently maintained a steady drumbeat of charges against Iran in recent weeks, accusing it trying to foster an Islamic revolution next door in Iraq and developing nuclear weapons.
This was the age of "fortress Europe", of inefficient, state-owned firms surviving on a diet of subsidy and protection.When it was first mooted, the single-market programme was not meant to foster a free-market revolution undermining the European "social model".
"I strongly believe that my legislation will help foster a consumer-centric revolution in the video marketplace," he said Tuesday.
They were not, as has often been maintained, directed at fostering a "bourgeois revolution".
For Professor Dickens, the Reformation was a European phenomenon in which new outlooks fostered a religious revolution with roots going back hundreds of years.
In 1968, at the height of the Prague Spring, Fidel shut down all small enterprises, as well as cafes, bars and nightclubs, accusing them of fostering a counter-revolution.
The object was not just to introduce social reform but to bring about a social revolution to foster a new spirit and build a new society.
So of course the digital revolution is essential, but it can only take off if we fix the foundation, foster a healthy economy.
