Sentence examples for fostered trade from inspiring English sources
An enlightened chap, he introduced hospitals, paved some roads and fostered trade, but his main obsession was astrology.
This dynasty fostered trade and cultural relations with sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and the Arab lands, though religious tensions between Islam and Christendom often threatened the peace.
The sheikhs of Dubai, unlike most of their neighbours, long fostered trade and commerce; Dubai was an important port by the beginning of the 20th century.
He imported large numbers of mamlūks to strengthen his own household, curbed the factionalism among rival households, eliminated the Janissaries as an independent local force, and fostered trade and agriculture.
The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 fostered trade contacts with the United Kingdom.
Duke Jacob (1642 82) actively fostered trade and industry and created a navy.
Zheng He, a Muslim-born eunuch, commanded a series of voyages that fostered Chinese trade with the Middle East and Africa at least a century before Christopher Columbus landed in the West Indies or Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope.
But Cuellar and other labor and rights activists see this form of development--fostered by trade liberalization policies that draw U.S. and European multinationals--as the handmaiden, not the antidote, to Colombia's social ills.
The 2005 deal fostered optimism that some sort of quid pro quo compromise could be reached, enabling the two countries to concentrate on trade.
