Sentence examples for foment opposition from inspiring English sources
Instead of using its clout to lobby against the device tax — which helped foment opposition to the Affordable Care Act — the medical-device industry needs to share the responsibility of lowering costs for patients, businesses and taxpayers.
His exposure of the Pentagon's fabrications did much to foment opposition to the Vietnam war.In this section Poorly made American muck-raker So long in coming Out of steppe Making merry at Knossos Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro" Anne Michaels's "The Winter Vault" ReprintsStone's muck-raking continued a rich American tradition.
Mr. Cuomo would appear at fund-raisers for Mr. de Blasio's potential rivals — Mr. Jeffries in 2015 and Mr. Diaz Jr. in 2016 — and foment opposition in phone calls to New York political leaders, according to people familiar with his calls.
The Iraqi opponents of Mr. Hussein, including exiles and dissidents from inside Iraq, spent the week meeting with senior administration officials at the State Department and the Pentagon to press them for more assistance, including military training for 140 Iraqis and military equipment like communications gear that, they argued, could be used to foment opposition to Mr. Hussein.
Cambodia and South Vietnam had been on bad terms; Cambodia turned a blind eye to Vietnamese communists using their territory as a staging ground, while Diệm and Nhu had tried to foment opposition and had supported attempts to overthrow the Cambodian leader.
He expelled the American envoy here in 2008, and contends that Washington foments opposition to his rule.
Rumors, presumably unfounded, about another governor-elect fomenting opposition to the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, highlight why the Assembly's Democratic members value Mr. Silver's leadership so highly.
While a great many blocked sites feature pornographic material, others, like YouTube and Facebook, are viewed by the authorities as potential vehicles for fomenting opposition to Communist Party rule.
The authorities have recently prosecuted scores of ethnic Tibetans on charges of fomenting opposition to Chinese rule in Tibet and three adjacent provinces with significant Tibetan populations.
Many musicians, along with hundreds of thousands of other Ethiopians seen as fomenting opposition to the regime, were killed, jailed or exiled.
[FairWarning] TransCanada's chief executive blames the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for fomenting opposition against a plan to import oil-sands crude through a pipeline that would run from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
