Sentence examples for foment for from inspiring English sources

The goal is not to foment for a mass exodus from the ivy halls, Mr. Stephens said, but to open people's minds to a different set of opportunities.

The plotters have taken to quoting Trotsky's revolutionary dictum "March separately, strike together" as the ideas which fomented for months reached their critical moment.

The Ethiopian government has declared a state of emergency in the country as it intensifies a crackdown on widespread anti-government protests born of frustration that's been fomenting for decades.

This weekend the league decided to try out a new way to foment respect for referees.

Many analysts believe that the red shirt movement, which supports Thaksin Shinawatra, the ousted prime minister, could foment unrest for months or years to come.

Other letters were peculiar: one suggested that Adam had been drugged by the C.I.A. and forced to his acts in order to foment support for gun-control legislation.

Maya Jasanoff's essay (July 1) could have been more effective if she'd skipped the attempt to foment sympathy for what amounted to America's first losers.

"Taylor is Milosevic in Africa with diamonds," Mr. Holbrooke said in an interview, contending that outsiders have been much too passive in identifying African leaders who foment war for personal gain.

In early 2011, Turkey and Saudi Arabia leveraged local protests against Assad to try to foment conditions for his ouster.

In 1970, the Saigon-based Catholic newspaper, Hòa Bình ran a story claiming that CIA agents had used a secret new explosive to foment trouble for Diệm's regime whose relations with the United States were deteriorating.

But even as her aggressive, confrontational style has set her apart on a legislative body known less for fomenting change than for renaming streets, it has also alienated many of her colleagues, former staff members and potential supporters.