Other factors may also significantly influence a project’s success, most notably, the size of a scientist’s personal and professional networks, and how much a researcher promotes a project on their own.

Yet neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney promotes himself as tool-savvy (使用工具很在行的) presidential timber, in the mold of a Jimmy Carter, a skilled carpenter and cabinet maker.

A healthy savings rate promotes economic prosperity.

A teacher deserves wide latitude in selecting the method of grading that best promotes learning in her classroom; that is, after all, the prime function of grades.

Consistently, research shows that communicating with others promotes health, whereas social isolation is linked to stress, disease, and early death.

To motivate visitors to bring in more old shoes, Adidas Brazil promotes the program in stores by showing videos to educate customers, and it even offers a discount each time a customer brings in an old pair of shoes.

However, by showing that television promotes none of the dangerous effects as conventionally believed, anderson suggests that television cannot be condemned without considering other influences.

Johnson and Johnson, for example, has created BabyCenter, a stand-alone media property that promotes complementary and even competitive products.

Some experts attribute the stress-reducing, health-related benefits of hugging to the release of oxytocin, often called "the bonding hormone" because it promotes attachment in relationships, including that between mothers and their new-born babies.

We have to suspect that continuing economic growth promotes the development of education even when governments don't force it.