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Example sentences for "fostered"

Lexicographically close words:
fossils; fossor; fossorial; fost; fosterage; fosterer; fostering; fosterling; fosters; fotch
  1. But anxiety remained, fostered by the memory of the tragedy of Barry's father and mother.

  2. The code of independence that fostered personal violence and justified killings--in contradistinction to murders--and that ran to excess in outlaws naturally fostered the criminal lawyer.

  3. Their attentions fostered his natural vanity, and his fancy, if not his heart, wandered from Madame RĂ©camier, and she knew it.

  4. It was a necessity of her nature, which her unnatural position developed and fostered to a reprehensible extent.

  5. If some teacher fostered in him this sense of responsibility, she did a piece of work for the world that can never be measured in terms of salary.

  6. He was fostered by a king Anzius, the progenitor of the Amelungs (the Amalians).

  7. In his sources of information Tacitus found nothing to hinder him from assuming as probable the view he expresses--that the Teutons were aborigines, autochthones, fostered on the soil which was their fatherland.

  8. Had he been born with less sound sense and a less watchful mother, it is appalling to think what a brat he would have been; but as it was, the spoiling but fostered a self-confidence which was half the battle in after years.

  9. Confucius, dealing with human nature as it actually is, argued that evil should be met by justice, and kindness with kindness, else the evil were as much fostered as the good.

  10. Like Servetus and Sanchez and many another, Huarte had his bias to reason fostered by a medical training; and it is as a "natural philosopher" that he stands for a rational study of causation.

  11. The success fostered his love of plunder, and inclined him more than ever to hold out this reward of valour to his followers.

  12. And the idea was understood and fostered by Wellesley about as soon as by Smith, for it was interpreted at Wellesley by Professor Scudder, who became a member of the college faculty, as instructor in English Literature, in the autumn of 1887.

  13. Miss Shafer also approved and fostered the department clubs which began to be formed at this time.

  14. In Germany, regard for Italian opera was fostered by establishing a permanent home for it at Hamburg; but the evolution of orchestration was but little benefited thereby.

  15. Out of this society grew the "Highland and Agricultural Society," which organization has fostered every agricultural effort which private beneficence or royal grant has initiated in the land since 1834.

  16. The swampy shores and large extent of water surface in this region fostered many varieties of gnats, mosquitoes, and other insects, though, fortunately, not in such great numbers as to be very troublesome.

  17. Each wished her son to be given preference, and this ambition, together with the restlessness accompanying enforced seclusion, stimulated crime and fostered conspiracies.

  18. Only with them was learning of any sort fostered and saved from extinction during the period known as the Dark Ages.

  19. Again, having gone out from Chaldea before they became devoted to peaceful pursuits, the Assyrians retained and fostered their original warlike dispositions.

  20. La Barre at first temporized with the Iroquois, but their depredations continued, fostered by Dongan, the governor of New York.

  21. The development of self-government was fostered not only by neglect on the part of England, but also by the necessity of protection.

  22. Most of these soils are easily adaptable to cultivation, and the use of crop rotation and of marl (a soil neutralizer) has fostered extensive production.

  23. To such an extent have these monopolies been fostered and protected, that at the present time the farmer pays in freights, taxes, and duties, at least one-half of his farm products for their support.

  24. The real question at issue between the people and monopolies fostered and protected by government is, whether the people shall rule, or remain the servants and vassals of the monopolists.

  25. English benevolence in private individuals had generously fostered some enterprises of learning and charity here.

  26. Caplait came crying against Patrick, for it was he [Caplait] who fostered the second daughter.

  27. Is He beautiful, or have many fostered His son, or is His daughter handsome, and dear to men of the world?

  28. Divine love and goodness and long-suffering cannot occupy too much of our thoughts and prayers; for it is through these that the heart is touched, and the spirit is fostered in us, and we awake to the new life in Christ.

  29. But now, remembering her rough upbringing and the wild folk who had fostered her, my anger gave place to commiseration, for how could she, under such circumstances, be other than what she seemed?

  30. They fostered the development of textile industries, lacemaking and the various kinds of figured cloth, so that we have some of the most beautiful inventions in this kind at this time.

  31. My taste for this was fostered by my father, who had broken his leg when young, and not only disliked walking, but had a slight limp, which did not prevent him being in the saddle for many hours each day.

  32. Matters were very different after Mr. Gladstone, by successive acts, of what I maintain were criminal legislation, deliberately fostered treason and encouraged outrage in Ireland.

  33. The greatest curse to the Irish nation has been Maynooth, because it has fostered the ordination of peasants' sons.


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