The new policies proclaimed by Mikhail S. Gorbachev as Soviet leader have also fostered hopes for progress.

The recent protests against the use of part of the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico as a live-fire training site for the American Navy have fostered hopes for eventual cleanup contracts there.

But Liverpool City Council still fosters hopes that the former United Biscuit factory in Edge Lane will be accepted as part of the Manchester Olympic bid, even though it is 35 miles from the proposed host city.

One innovation that has fostered both high hopes and privacy concerns is the facial recognition technology being used in the Newham section of London.

In these countries, the onset of recession brought down interest rates and fostered hopes of further rate declines and a quick economic recovery.

He still fostered hopes that those forces were French, but the announcement by Radio Bremen at 23:00 that German tanks had linked up with the paratroopers ended those hopes.

Aron is put under arrest, accused of fostering idle hopes with his imagery such as that of the Promised Land.

His success with the Karelians fostered unrealistic hopes of national self-determination which were ultimately unfulfilled, caught as they were between the Finns and Russians.

The announcement on Monday fostered hopes for a turnaround at Cable and Wireless, a company that was founded in 1872 to supply telecommunication services to Britain's colonies and that stumbled badly in a late 1990's expansion.

Barack Obama's presidency has fostered hopes for increased co-operation and heightened levels of friendship between the two nations.