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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
promote .
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Examples
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Hispanic advocates -- or at least some of them -- say the term promotes racism and fear mongering.
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Movieguide, the Christian family guide to movies and entertainment, did a report showing that conservative movies make more money than liberal ones. writes that the criteria Movieguide used to rate movies include whether a title promotes capitalism or socialism, or if it promotes or degrades biblical principles.
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ANYTHING that Harry Reid promotes is definitely anti-American ....
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Palin promotes pro-abort judges, Romney advocates $50 abortions in his Romney care (which was socialism).
Liberal bloggers admit conservatives have upper hand on Twitter 2009
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Oxytocin promotes trusting others, even those against whom you have been warned.
A boon to con artists eddvick 2008
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"McCain promotes Mideast peace talks but avoids sit-down with Palestinians" (Dion Nissenbaum, McClatchy Newspapers) Despite not officially engaged in a campaign stop, McCain nevertheless tried to show some diplomatic and foreign-policy bona fides as he talked Mid-East peace.
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The only thing that the play promotes is respect for another human being regardless of any differences, as splinter noted, a value that is pretty fundamental of American society.
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The game industry, even if the product it promotes is democratic and interactive in nature, is structured virtually identically to entertainment media that predate it.
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Worse, the phrase promotes bigotry by linking Islam with terrorism, as if the former is responsible for the latter.
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Government of Burundi refuses to use it arguing that the name promotes ethnicity and that it, therefore could not be allowed to appear in any of the Burundian laws.
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