Word Finder - promotes

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To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.

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He promoted his clerk to office manager.

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To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.

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They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.

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To encourage, urge or incite.

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(usually in passive form) To elevate to a higher league.

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At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.

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To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.

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To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.

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Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.

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To move on to a subsequent stage of education.

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At the end of Primary 6 students can promote directly to the secondary section of SIS.

This promotes freedom and self-rule.

All other officers and officials he appoints and promotes without the consent of the senate.

This promotes peace and deters war.

The Royal Institution, Albemarle Street, was founded in 1799, maintains a library and laboratories and promotes research in connexion with the experimental sciences.

The design by Foster's and Partners expresses the transparency of the democratic process and promotes the image of a modern vibrant world city.

The government promotes the extension of markets for farm products; it maintains officers in the United Kingdom who make reports from time to time on the condition in which Canadian goods are delivered from the steamships, and also on what they can learn from importing and distributing merchants regarding the preferences of the market for different qualities of farm goods and different sorts of packages.

This, when garlic has been eaten, is evolved by the excretory organs, the activity of which it promotes.

The first action of the lime is to convert the manganese chloride into manganous hydrate (Mn(OH) 2) and calcium chloride; then more lime is added which greatly promotes and hastens the oxidizing process.

The new Kessler furnace is a very ingenious apparatus, in which the fire from a gas-producer travels over the sulphuric acid contained in a trough made of Volvic lava, and surmounted by a number of perforated plates, over which fresh acid is constantly running down; the temperature is kept down by the production of a partial vacuum, which greatly promotes the volatilization of the water, whilst retarding that of the acid.

Aesthetic involvement in the exhibit promotes Indian values, arts and esthetic sensibilities.

Part B outlines the new policy, which promotes sustainable agriculture, and Part C focuses on policy implementation.

On the other, the IAEA's mandate promotes the dangerous myth of peaceful nuclear power.

From a personal perspective, I was attracted to Sussex because of the interdisciplinary approach to learning that the university promotes.

Rhyme awareness promotes reading ability.

The Kocher's incision often promotes pulmonary atelectasis and had a significant dehiscence rates.

The wall shape, being similar to an upturned bucket, promotes improved paste release.

The British Cartographic Society (B.C.S. ), through and on behalf of its membership, exerts an influence on and promotes world cartography.

It promotes chauvinism in Russia while it kills large numbers of Chechens and ruins their country.

LeGE-WG provides an interdisciplinary consortium of experts in Grid Computing and eLearning, and promotes a close interaction between the communities associated with them.

They also concluded that problem oriented learning in conjunction with new media promotes cooperation among students.

Hill View House promotes its environmental credentials in the Hill View House brochure.

It promotes cellular uptake of glucose and amino acids and inhibits protein degradation (11 ).

The Structure of Social Theory promotes a hermeneutic sociology which rejects this dualism.

Gels have a high water content, which aids the rehydration of hard eschar and promotes autolysis in necrotic wounds.

The Commission provides policy support and advice to forestry Ministers in England, Scotland and Wales, promotes forestry and encourages good forestry practice.

The university places adverts on staff web pages and magazines and actively promotes school governorship as a way of strengthening links with the community.

Warm compost promotes the rapid germination of most herb seeds and is particularly useful for gardeners who raise their plants in an unheated greenhouse.

Values are weakly anthropocentric and ecocentric Advocates forms of direct and cosmopolitan democracy with active citizenship Allows and promotes the greening of socialism.

The European Union of gymnastics is an organization which promotes and develops European gymnastics at all levels.

Suffice it to say that the Bible almost exclusively promotes immorality in all its forms.

Ghanaian culture and values promote interdependence and communalism, whereas the free-market model promotes individualism and independence.

The Tidal Model promotes nurses ' self-confidence, fosters interaction, and increases inter-disciplinary team work.

Within the society and environment theme TIES promotes interdisciplinary, applied research on understanding the interaction between society and the natural and built environments.

A Master Healer, it promotes love kindness and understanding.

Everything is either eco, organic, fairly traded, recycled or promotes natural living.

Erythropoietin is a genetically engineered preparation of the human hormone that promotes maturation of red cells in the bone marrow.

The Essential Balance is unique because it promotes moderation, perseverance and patience.

A pity he did not see fit to nominate an appropriate secular, working class cause rather than one which promotes religious obscurantism.

The GOsC regulates, promotes and develops the profession of osteopathy, maintaining a Statutory Register of those entitled to practice osteopathy.

The GTPases Rac and Cdc42 promote outgrowth of neurites while Rho promotes their retraction, by switching on the kinases PAK and ROK respectively.

The skin of birch, worn inside the shoes, promotes a perspiration that can prove salutary in various chronic conditions.

Guide promotes best practice by all those involved in managing the coast in England.

TsunamiReady promotes tsunami hazard preparedness as collaboration among federal, state, and local emergency management agencies.

Vitamin E promotes healing and helps relieve skin redness.

The Inquiry Page project promotes the idea that even its own structures and beliefs need continual reexamination.

Rather, the arguments deal with those who actually believe that Derrida promotes linguistic relativism.

The work not only develops artistic skills but also promotes self-awareness and self esteem.

Identifies, promotes and tracks learning opportunities for group members, while continuously pursuing self-development and growth.

It also refers to practice which promotes the development of a positive self-identity.

Page 2002 promotes an approach which he has recently named mindless sensationalism.