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The commission said Monguia’s shooting remarks “fostered an atmosphere of intimidation in the courtroom and, even if made in jest, were undignified and discourteous.”

Once the Communists took over Russia, they vastly increased the literacy of the largely peasant population, industrialized the country, poured money into scientific research and fostered a respectable number of Nobel Prize winners.

China has fostered pride in its shipbuilding prowess, especially here in Dalian.

He married, and even fostered a child, but he never felt he truly belonged.

It was the FBI that fostered conflicts and divisions both among Black activists and between the Civil Rights Movement and white allies.