Agora is a very personal creation of its owner, Claude Levy-Soussan, who actively sponsors design competitions, seeking to encourage the creation of contemporary work that will become classic.

The government actively sponsors interfaith dialogue.

It actively sponsors grants and scholarships for mandolin education and instruction for children and adults in North America.

To this end, he created numerous regional cultural centres throughout France and actively sponsored the arts.

Five Ten actively sponsors events and athletes.

"Nobody is saying that Venezuela is actively sponsoring terrorism," said a State Department official speaking on condition of anonymity under department rules.

"We hope that our earlier decision not to actively sponsor the program was beneficial to the two groups in arriving at this resolution."

Probably the first organisation to actively sponsor and promote Thai Studies was the Siam Society under royal patronage, established in 1904.

And almost every state that actively sponsors terror is known to be seeking weapons of mass destruction, and the missiles to deliver them at longer and longer ranges.

"They still actively sponsor terrorism," Mr. Stein said.