Sentences with word «foment»

The word "foment" means to encourage or provoke the development of something, often something negative or disruptive. Full definition
A couple of weeks ago, supporters of Zenator went to town accusing Madam Valerie of fomenting trouble in the Klottey Korley Constituency, since the November 21, 2015, primary of the NDC.
The Northern Region Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Daniel Bugri Naabu, has accused the party's MPs in the region of fomenting trouble in the governing party.
And it decreed that a list of people who were influential in fomenting revolutions would no longer include Thomas Jefferson.
Scarcity of food sources from destruction of farmland and pastoral areas because of changing climatic conditions, he said, has helped foment wars in his country, including the one in Darfur.
In response, the Russian government carried out a concerted campaign to disrupt U.S. energy markets by fomenting fears of fossil fuels causing catastrophic climate change.
The district's board and administration deserve praise for fomenting revolution in the ranks, Wedl said.
In addition to presenting important artworks, the exhibition will convey the political foment of an era that saw both the emergence of Conceptual art and the rise of the Women's Rights, Civil Rights, and anti — Vietnam War movements, and will illustrate the period's experimental impulses through catalogues, artist publications, periodicals, photographs, and ephemera from key exhibitions and events.
It has therefore become necessary to warn groups and individuals bent on fomenting trouble on Saturday to have a rethink.
For example, without taking over any territory in Eastern Ukraine, Russia made Ukraine undesirable and ungovernable by fomenting dissent and aiding in separatism.
It can be a great help for peace with justice, but may also foment conflict and war.
The National Democratic Congress has vowed to take punitive measures against parliamentary aspirants who fomented trouble in Saturday's nationwide presidential and parliamentary elections.
When do we engage and when do we decide to not legitimize what appears to be a forum for just fomenting doubt and confusion in the public mindset?
The cartels themselves are primarily interested in selling drugs, not fomenting violence or fighting to control territory in the US, Shirk said.
I'm all for open disclosure of food contents, but not when the labeling effort is aimed at fomenting fear over facts.
For him, «History may well mock those who expected that an NPP government, led by the paragon of the rule of law, will take firm action against criminal elements who were recruited by the NPP to foment violence as part of the push for power.
In gallery seven, an immense triptych, as flat out gorgeous as anything you're ever likely to see, foments with brooding.
Last week, representatives of several social media companies appeared before Congress to testify about mounting evidence that Russian government sponsored groups sought to influence U.S. elections and American political sentiment by propagating false or misleading news stories, artificially driving online popularity of those stories, and actually fomenting violent demonstrations and clashes.
This will cetainly foment more of these incidents... If enough of them happen... what then?
You don't need a religion to be kind and peaceful, in fact, religion is too often used as an excuse to discriminate and foment hate against others.
No wonder the R's depend so heavily on fomenting racial and religious divisions.
Sector rotations are suppressing volatility — thus fomenting complacency — as rules - based strategies obey the same rules.
They urged the Member of Parliament to restrain his supporters from fomenting troubles ahead of the 2017 peaceful Aboakyir...
He fails titanically in actually fomenting even the slightest hint of malice or danger.
The weighted and forcefully applied brushstroke and evocative color combinations with contrasting sensuous organic lines transmit complex feelings and emotions; unexpected juxtapositions of universal forms and the ambiguous spatial contingencies foment tensions and debate.
Yiannopoulos has been accused of fomenting bigotry, particularly in coordinating a Twitter assault on Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones that got him permanently banned from the platform.
With all that on the table, the speed with which JJR was looking for an upgrade after the bruising 2016 campaign helped foment resentment among many major donors, labor groups and others who spent millions of dollars and thousands of man - hours getting him elected.
News at 11: Christians foment controversy and then are butt hurt when things don't go like they thought it should.
But it's remarkable for an elected official in the United States to identify politically with a «national patriot» who fomented revolutionary separation from the United States.
While it carries the unrest and pain that was left over from the 1980s into the present, it also foments new historical causations, or in this regard, that that has been, and may be again.
Tens of thousands of Muslims are expressing their displeasure by migrating to the West, others foment movements within their own countries through what has been termed the Arab Spring.
From the Russian side, Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev), head of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department of External Church Relations, has attributed Ukraine's civil strife to the «uniates» (a derogatory term for Ukrainian Catholics) who refuse to acknowledge the validity of political perspectives other than their own — and even foment violent revolution on the Maidan and suppress political and religious dissent in eastern Ukraine.
In September, for example, the company released the findings of an internal audit that seem to corroborate theories that Russian actors were behind a campaign of social media stories and memes designed to foment discord in the U.S.in the months leading up the November 2016 presidential vote.
I'm afraid this will just serve to tarnish the Rainforest Alliance «brand» and foment distrust in certifications in general.
In his book Zealot (The Westbourne Press), he makes the provocative claim that Jesus was not the peace - loving Messiah of the Gospels, but a political revolutionary crucified for fomenting Jewish insurrection.
Iran's regime knows first - hand how powerful online activism can be: street protests after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's controversial re-election in 2009 were in part fomented by social media.
Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai went to the Emperor Titus and asked him for the right to open a rabbinical academy in the city of Yavneh in return for which he would not urge or foment revolt against Rome.
On his first three tries McKee and his companions were plagued by motor failure, dragging anchors, swamping, foul weather and bad air, heavy seas and tides, injury, sickness and sharp arguments fomented by charges and countercharges of illegal activity — in short, the routine troubles that wreck hunters come to expect.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1954, Kelley became entrenched in a local proto - punk scene that fomented such bands Iggy and the Stooges and MC5.
The group has, therefore, called on the Organised Youth of Krobo, to rather render an unqualified apology to Mr Atta Akyea, Ghanaians, Krobos, and the region as whole because «their statement was rather divisive and has the potential of fomenting tribal conflict».

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