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They want to create an environment conducive to both small business success and consumer protection.

Decentralizing power and economic incentives are conducive to giving new ideas a chance.

In their heyday, these retreats were so conducive to frank expressions of sentiment that if one were to eavesdrop at their tables for a month, one would be able to anticipate all of the bankruptcies, weddings, and wars of the year to come.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

I wonder, now, why it was that he thought the sight of so many large stuffed animals would be conducive to my education?  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

Music was placed in this category, and Aristotle speculated in his Politics as to the profit to be derived from it, finally conceding that music might conduce to virtue by making the body fit, promoting a certain ethos, and enabling us to enjoy things in me proper way, whatever that means.†  (source) Roger Zelazny, My Name is Legion, 1976

The gambling with the guineas had not conduced to make him a welcome guest to Clym; but to call upon his wife's relative was natural, and he was determined to see Eustacia.†  (source) Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, 1878

Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity, the conducing means I made use of, which with the blessing of God so well succeeded, my posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own situations, and therefore fit to be imitated.†  (source) Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1791

These dictates of Reason, men use to call by the name of Lawes; but improperly: for they are but Conclusions, or Theoremes concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves; whereas Law, properly is the word of him, that by right hath command over others.†  (source) Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651

A full stomach conduces to inaction, and the cub lay in the cave, sleeping against his mother's side.†  (source) Jack London, White Fang, 1906

Unconducive"—and she waved a hand and laughed—"to industry and progress and so forth.†  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

The necessity of naval protection to external or maritime commerce does not require a particular elucidation, no more than the conduciveness of that species of commerce to the prosperity of a navy.†  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers, 1788

"Who would you rather kiss?" Madison asks. Sierra leans back on the couch. "Let's start easy. Pug or poodle?" I laugh. "You mean as in dog?" "Yeah." "Okay," I say. Poodles are cute and cuddly, but Pugs are more masculine and... As much as I like cute and cuddly, a poodle won't cut it. "Pug." Morgan scrunches up her face. "Ew! Poodle for sure. Pugs have that pushed-in nose and snorting problem. Not conducive to kissing."  (source) Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry, 2009

And as a high moral tone can hardly be said to conduce very much to either one's health or one's happiness, in order to get up to town I have always pretended to have a younger brother of the name of Ernest, who lives in the Albany, and gets into the most dreadful scrapes.†  (source) Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1905