1.   It would be an opportunity to foster civic pride and to identify talented youngsters.

2.   It has fostered pride in a place where that feeling is heavily rationed.

3.   Some Europe-wide institutions are helping in the belief that grass-roots movements fostering local pride are good for democracy.

4.   Conrad Worrill, chairman of the U.S.-based Black United Front, praised Ture for his early efforts at fostering pride in African heritage.

5.   He said he wanted schoolbooks to lay greater stress on Chinese history, as a way of fostering Chinese pride among a people accustomed to colonial rule.

6.   The DPP sees the centennial as a means of fostering Taiwanese pride.

7.   They cost a fraction as much, he said, and they foster local pride.