'sowing' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when describing the act of planting seeds in a field or garden. For example: "In the spring, the farmer spent his days sowing the fields."
"In these times of uncertainty, where organised cross-border crime is sowing terror in our country, it is indispensable that all those who travel in our country carry their identity documents.
That means doing the time-consuming work of forensic scrutiny and sowing doubts through hard-hitting critique.
Labour accuses Michael Gove of "sowing political division" after his comments that some leftwing narratives of the first world war are unpatriotic.
"Certain political figures, along with law enforcement agencies, are sowing despair and creating insecurity," Monswengo said in a statement.
But late sowing tends to produce a thin harvest.
"Our people might be sowing mischief against Assad in Syria this could be a tit for tat," suggests a Turkish official who disapproves of Turkey's efforts to topple Mr Assad.
The X factor Sowing bubbles Brigands seeking harbours Rich pickings A question of maturity Reprints Related items Economics focus: A question of maturityApr 20th 2011When the banks duly had to be bailed out and debt was transferred from the private to the public sector, a further layer of denials was needed.
By sowing communal tension, the palace may hope to postpone the election.
This contrasts with the bulldozing approach of Durk Jager, who tried to turn Procter & Gamble, an American rival, into a hotbed of innovation in his first 18 months as chief executive and ended up merely sowing confusion, raising costs and losing his job.
A mere slap on the wrist, the sentence was never enforced.Now Mr Malema has been ordered to appear before the disciplinary committee again, this time charged (along with all five members of the Youth League's leadership) with bringing the ANC into disrepute and with sowing divisions among party members.
In tiptoeing gingerly around one of the last Maoist shibboleths collective landownership the party may yet be sowing the seeds of the rural transformation it promises.
