Sentence examples for rather than fostering from inspiring English sources

Rather than fostering entrepreneurship, the president has stifled it with red tape.

Rather than fostering vibrant political parties, Mali's politics swallowed up independent voices.

But for the most part your intellectuals, pundits and parliamentarians, rather than fostering an honest debate, prefer to make excuses.

Mr. Choi has created a large menu that, rather than fostering frustration and confusion, encourages repeat visits.

He saw it more as a way of stopping things from falling apart, rather than fostering growth.

And risk-taking is absent not just among would-be entrepreneurs, but also among investors, who still favor propping up old companies rather than fostering new ones.

I can hear echoes asking: What about those in Malick's nineteen-fifties-era Texas whose pursuit of happiness was being thwarted rather than fostered?

But one of its co-authors, Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, said some incentives in the law had been used to delay competition, rather than foster it, costing consumers money and denying patients access to life-saving drugs.

Mr. Forcellino, who acknowledges that he runs a risk of professional embarrassment by championing the painting, said he decided to write a book about it in part "to start a debate on the mechanisms of subject specialization, which often undermine rather than foster an expansion of knowledge".

Its new families for unaccompanied children initiative will work with faith communities throughout the city to provide homes for more children as they arrive, in a system similar to that which exists throughout the country when children are placed with relatives rather than foster carers if they cannot be safely looked after by their parents.

Rather than foster an urban form that demands heroic survival, perhaps we should focus on ways to create cities that offer a more healthful and even pleasant life for their citizens.