The word "inflaming" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the process of setting something on fire, or figuratively to refer to increasing the intensity of an emotion or action. Example Sentence: The inflammatory speech inflaming the crowd's passions.
That could involve irregular troops, cyber attacks and inflaming tensions with ethnic Russian minorities in nations seen as part of the country's "near abroad" by Moscow.
The new chief executive of Barclays is to close the bank's controversial tax avoidance unit in a bid to repair its battered reputation, although he still risks inflaming the row over City pay by paying out up to £2bn in bonuses.
Related: Struggle Street: SBS investigates claims some scenes were fabricated Ebeid, who revealed that he had grown up in Mount Druitt – where the documentary was filmed – took aim at the main critic of the program, the mayor of Bankstown, Stephen Bali, accusing him of inflaming the situation.
November has seen a spate of attacks and protests against asylum seekers, and Amnesty has warned that "recent government statements risk inflaming the situation".
The left insists that things have deteriorated ever since neighbourhood policing was dismantled under the previous centre-right government, and accuses the right of inflaming tension with heavy-handed techniques.
Public comments are being minimised to avoid inflaming popular and political passions in America.If the deal is approved, ICBC's subsequent role in the American market will largely depend on its ambitions.
Wars make them poorer still, and the leaders who rise to the top during wartime are rarely benign.Most of the things African governments can do to reduce the risk of war are worth doing anyway: govern well, spend money on schools rather than soldiers, allow space for peaceful dissent, and avoid inflaming ethnic grievances.
The two demagogues must have known that violence would follow, and almost certainly deaths too, but they must have calculated that by inflaming matters further they might provoke the fall of Mr Sharif.
Pierre Gemayel, Lebanon's minister of industry and a member of a famous Christian political dynasty, was shot dead in Beirut, inflaming sectarian tensions.
The people of East Timor had voted for independence, inflaming secessionist ambitions in other parts of the vast archipelago, especially in Aceh and Irian Jaya.
STUDENTS of sport's capacity for inflaming nationalist feelings might have expected trouble at the 22-nation cricket tournament just finishing in Kuala Lumpur.
