During his flight to New York, Cameron said: "What we have to discuss with Russia, what we have to try to reach agreement about, is that it is in everyone's interest that this part of the world has stability and governments that represent all its people and it isn't fomenting terrorism.
While he's not fomenting Bolivarian revolution, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez enjoys tweaking the noses of the world's major oil companies.
Asked whether Saudi Arabia wasn't fomenting Wahhabism, a fundamentalist form of Islam, and whether the country wasn't therefore part of the problem, Blair demurred, saying, "Today, there's no doubt it is an ally in the fight against extremism".
Leon Trotsky in My Official Wife (1914) When he wasn't fomenting Russian revolutions, Lev Davidovich Bronstein - Leon Trotsky to you and me - appears to have enjoyed a brief sideline as a movie extra.
By night, he denied the Holocaust, denounced women and immigrants, and waxed crudely about the superiority of the white race when he wasn't fomenting a self-sufficient, whites-only economy by way of bitcoins and coffee beans.
There you find the neocon view that intervention is not about fomenting a Syrian democracy; it is about striking at an Islamist, anti-American cabal centered on Iran.
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.
He knows that peace is not served by fomenting hatred.
The report's authors also issued a reminder about their previous recommendation, "that the authorities [should] take particular care when developing and explaining policies, to ensure that the message sent to society as a whole is not one likely to foment or foster intolerance".
The purpose of a painting or a poem was not to foment political change but to give expression to the painter's troubled spirit, to further his private spiritual cultivation.
