Sentence examples for were to stimulate from inspiring English sources

"These Canadian content subsidies were to stimulate the indigenous Canadian film business," Brent Swift, founder of the action committee, said.

Geology was at that point a brand-new science, a circumstance reflected in the society's goals, which were to stimulate "zeal" for the discipline and to induce participants "to adopt one nomenclature".

The goals of the pledge, which was organized by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren E. Buffett, were to stimulate discussion about philanthropy among the ultrawealthy and unleash a wave of me-tooism among others that would bring about "the Second Great Wave of Philanthropy," in the words of Sean Stannard-Stockton, a blogger and philanthropic consultant.

It would be ironic, but not unprecedented, if China were to stimulate itself into a real-estate-fueled banking crisis less than a year after wagging its finger at the West for doing the same thing.

Generally, the goals of the P4P schemes were to stimulate delivery of high-quality and cost-effective chronic care, and ultimately to improve patient health.

To help strengthen the evidence base for improvement in health care, we proposed draft guidelines for reporting planned original studies of improvement interventions in 2005. 1 Our aims were to stimulate the publication of high calibre improvement studies and to increase the completeness, accuracy, and transparency of published reports of that work.

This is to stimulate the immune system.

A stated goal of the Greenway is to stimulate tourism.

My intent with this legislation is to stimulate the dialogue".

The intention was to stimulate lending and thus maintain demand.

Another aim of incentives is to stimulate demand.