The word ‘stemming’ is correct and usable in written English
It is used to refer to the process of reducing a word to its base or root form, usually for the purpose of linguistic analysis. For example, ‘stemming’ can be used to reduce the word ‘stems’ to its base form ‘stem’. An example sentence would be: “The process of stemming can reduce a word to its base form for easier analysis.”
It is aimed also at stemming the drift that has seen Labour and the Lib Dem's cosying up together on Europe, constituency boundary changes and media regulation post-Leveson.
Sierra Leone has said it will confine around 2.5 million people to their homes across the capital and in the north in a three-day shutdown aimed at stemming the Ebola epidemic.
Ashurkov is wanted in Russia on embezzlement charges stemming from the fundraising he led for Navalny's 2013 grassroots campaign to become mayor of Moscow, in which the opposition candidate received 30% of the vote despite being denied vital coverage by state-owned television.
A medical report documenting the stemming of severe nosebleeds by stuffing strips of cured pork up the nostrils (you literally couldn't make this stuff up).
Local civil-rights groups have long sought reparations relating to the notorious practices of Burge, the former Chicago police commander who was released from home custody this month and is estimated to have cost the city upwards of $100m stemming from settlements and judgments in civil-rights cases.
The allegation by the Kurdistan Region Security Council, stemming from a 23 January suicide truck bomb attack in northern Iraq, did not immediately draw a reaction from Isis, which holds a third of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in its self-declared caliphate.
The Fabians' solution to stemming the Ukip tide was a combination of switching to community-based campaigning on doorstop issues like "like pay day loan and betting shops, litter picks and night safety campaigns", to national policy focus on cost of living, housing ringfences for local people, or introducing the contributory principle to welfare.
Three people were sentenced to federal prison on Tuesday, following a hate crimes investigation stemming from the death of a black man who was beaten and run over by a truck in Mississippi.
Some pro-Europeans believe it is simplistic to think that the backlash against Labour in Scotland is due to the Better Together campaign rather than stemming from deep-seated revulsion against Labour's politics.
Over a decade of involvement with volunteer programmes in south-east Asia and the Pacific, I've seen numerous examples of positive change stemming from such projects.
