| Economic and social insecurity fostered widespread popular resentment as people searched for scapegoats to explain their hardships. |
| It fostered a certain resignedness, but also a great pride in its tenacity. |
| In the later nineteenth century, a changing economy fostered songs and stories of cowboys, lumberjacks, miners, oil drillers, and railroaders. |
| Of all types of commercially based American music, jazz is the one that has most consistently fostered musical artistry on a high level. |
| But the acquisitive instinct fostered by capitalism would come to subvert the moral basis that initially allowed the system to flourish. |
| Westermann's tough-guy pose was fostered by early experiences as a professional acrobat, carpenter, railroad repairman and janitor. |
