The phrase "foster resistance" is correct and usable in written English.
It means to encourage or promote the development of opposition or defiance. Example: The government's oppressive policies only served to foster resistance among the citizens, leading to widespread protests and civil disobedience.
These factors have emerged in a context that does not foster resistance, as tenants are desperate for new housing, forced to come up against a popular revitalization approach, and suffering from attrition in numbers over a long development timeline.
This focus will tend to privilege the status quo, and foster resistance to more egalitarian social arrangements.
Most of the tasks in the workshop address the facts about and visualisation of the short-term and long-term consequences of smoking; others aim to scrutinise strategies of the tobacco industry or to foster resistance skills.
How much the SOE succeeded in fostering resistance in wartime Italy is debatable.
THE BOTTOM LINE Chronic stress may raise the risk of sickness by fostering resistance to cortisol.
A realist might conclude from the events of 1956 and what followed, as well as from today's Iraqi mayhem, that totalitarianism must be tackled not by frontal assault, but by fostering resistance within — through a Polish pope, say, or the anti-Soviet, American-financed mujahedeen of Afghanistan of the 1980's.
With the majority of the fighting on African fronts, the British Command fostered resistance movements in the occupied countries, hoping to undermine German morale and Nazi infrastructure in lands the Axis had already pacified.
The following examples highlight how Darwinian evolution driven by intra-tumoural genetic heterogeneity fosters resistance to the selection pressure of systemic cancer therapies.
This continuous and finely tuned interplay can promote cancer outbreak, sustain tumor development and invasion, defend a tumor from host immunity, foster therapeutic resistance, and provide niches for cancer stem cells (CSCs) and dormant metastases [ 1].
It can also foster drug resistance among germs.
