Laws protecting minority shareholders' rights, for example, have fostered confidence.
Better property rights have fostered confidence, and therefore investment.
That must have fostered this wanderlust for chips.
But it has benefited hugely from the sense of prosperity that buoyant house prices have fostered.
Powerful stories have fostered fascist or racist ends as frequently as "cooperation".
Decades of hostile rhetoric towards the West and towards Israel have fostered an equally hostile response.
Economically, tight state controls have fostered stagnation and popular resentment while hindering foreign investment.
Chowhound and similar sites have fostered a culture of try-anything, go-anywhere food exploration.
The inadequacies of the latter have fostered a burgeoning local taxi industry.
Social media networks have fostered communities that defy the mullahs' superstructure and provoke acts of protest.
"In those instances, the schools have fostered that a little bit.
