Sentence examples for foment support from inspiring English sources

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.

In it, Sharp writes, "The stark brutality of the regime against the clearly nonviolent actionists politically rebounds against the dictators' position, causing dissension in their own ranks as well as fomenting support for the resisters among the general population, the regime's usual supporters and third parties".

Meanwhile, Spain has charged Russia with fomenting support for the Catalan referendum on independence in 2017.

This is astonishing, given the critical role that the war in Iraq has played in fomenting support for the radicals.

The United States has long been trying to contain an insurgency that it was partly responsible for creating, through its backing of the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia in the mid-aughts, which fomented support for al-Shabaab.

His actual role in fomenting and supporting the second intifada is open to question.

Assad, however, blames Europe and the United States for the exodus, saying most of the refugees are fleeing the "terrorism" that he accuses the West of fomenting by supporting elements of the opposition.

Kashmiri militancy against Indian rule has been fomented and supported by Pakistan, though India's own domestic problems--including the occasional eruption of Hindu-Muslim clashes, notably a 2002 pogrom against Muslims in the state of Gujarat--offered a crucial opportunity to recruit disaffected Indian Muslims to the cause of violence.

Peaceful regime change -- through sanctions, fomented coups and support for domestic insurrection -- had gone nowhere.

They were arrested in April and May and have also been charged with recruitment and offering material support to foment terrorism.

Dagan believes that the West and Israel, which has had nuclear weapons for decades, should do all they can to foment regime change by supporting the Iranian opposition.