Sentence examples for were designed to foster from inspiring English sources

Until recent weeks, Chinese officials said that the export quotas were designed to foster the development of value-added industries.

Bill Bragin, Lincoln Center's director of public programming, said many of the events this year were designed to foster audience participation.

But it was also driven by city policies that were designed to foster the growth of the financial and real-estate industries, and the effects of those policies are more or less irreversible.

The Palestinians would benefit from the large amount of foreign aid it would receive from the United States and other countries and from economic agreements made with Israel that were designed to foster employment and trade.

Riley E. Dunlap, a sociologist at Oklahoma State University who has studied the influence of conservative policy institutes, said in an e-mail message that such events were designed to foster the impression of "little Davids battling the Goliath of the environmental establishment".

This is exemplified by the European Union's framework programmes, which were designed to foster cross-border collaborative research in key areas of science and technology (Gusmão 2001).

The company's new offices, at 85 Fifth Avenue, are being designed to foster cooperation.

It's not just communication between scientists that the building is designed to foster.

He is promoting the PlayStation Cup, which is designed to foster school football.

A proposed new electoral law is designed to foster the creation of a stable two-party system.

In addition, they haven't been designed to foster their use as components of continuing-care retirement communities.