The phrase "promoting as" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to introduce a new role that someone is taking on, or a new purpose to which something is being applied. For example: "We are promoting the library as a place for community events and gatherings."
I don't know what he was promoting as far as the N.B.A. is concerned".
The triple-digit returns, on paper at least, that venture capitalists were promoting as recently as last year have melted away.
The paper concludes that South Africa has become an African leader in promoting as well as in opposing modern biotechnology in agriculture.
A number of microRNAs are known to modulate regulation of crucial oncogenes and function both by promoting as well as suppressing oncogenesis and form a distinct class popularly termed as 'oncomiRs' [8].
A procurement strategy has been implemented by the In-Vessel Project Team at F4E aimed at mitigating technical and commercial risks for the procurement of ITER blanket FW panels, promoting as far as possible competition among industrial partners.
"The publicist has a ringside seat at most of the aspects of movie-making and promoting, as well as an upfront look at all the personalities and dramas involved".
However, it remains to be determined whether Akt, Erk1/2, or another signaling pathway activation is responsible for promoting As-transformed cell migration and invasion.
In the present study, we provided additional novel evidence suggesting that abnormal cell signaling and gene expression may play a crucial role in arsenic lung carcinogenesis by promoting As-transformed HBEC migration and invasion.
Indeed, ILCs have been separately associated with tumor-promoting as well as tumor-suppressing activities, raising the need to understand the mechanisms by which these cells regulate tumor growth and progression toward a rational design of therapeutic approaches.
So no one thought his joke was a safety warning, he followed his post with a :-) and suggested that his colleagues do the same also promoting :-( as a sign of seriousness.
Thus, we wind up driving food production and consumption away from healthful high-fat foods (like nuts) and towards processed refined products (like "low-fat" cakes), promoting -- as opposed to preventing -- increases in obesity and related diseases.
