Sentence examples for fanned fear from inspiring English sources

But his deepening engagement with the mainland's Communist government fanned fear at home, costing his party the presidential election.

But there is one list of politicians who still deserve a measure of scorn: the ones who fanned fear for fear's sake.

The shootings fanned fears of a return to retaliatory violence after years of fragile peace.

The rioting in Xinjiang fanned fears among government officials that the Internet could help spread unrest in China.

But it cautioned that skirmishes in early November had fanned fears of a possible resumption of shelling of population centres.

That fanned fears in this former British colony that its legal system and autonomy were eroding under Chinese sovereignty.

This fanned fears that pensioners might blow their cash on cruises or pour it all into buy-to-let properties.

They have fanned fears that Mr. Maliki will use the threat of terrorism and unrest as a pretext to strike political foes.

Nicaragua's president, Arnoldo Aleman, grumbled when Costa Rica refused to extend the deadline for the amnesty; officials in Managua fanned fears that mass deportations would follow.

The prospect of losing public housing land, and to tenants paying higher rents in many cases, has fanned fears that the authority wants to edge out its residents.

Even today, political tensions in the Middle East, particularly in the Persian Gulf, have fanned fears of supply disruptions that are keeping prices high.