The word 'stoking' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is a verb that means to add fuel to a fire, or to increase or stimulate something. Example: The politician's inflammatory comments were stoking tensions among different communities.
And sicker of politicians and the media stoking the fires of self-righteous nationalism.
Stoking the flames of anti-Americanism and antisemitism is a good distraction from the stench in their own backyard".
The result is a dangerous dual effect of entrenching unfairness and stoking political alienation.
Brussels has launched a ferocious counterattack against David Cameron over immigration, saying his talk of benefit tourism and a something-for-nothing culture among EU migrants is unintelligent and risks stoking "knee-jerk xenophobia".
Opponents claim Manjhi was stoking caste tensions for political advantage.
Partly to emasculate Jobbik, Orbán keeps stoking nationalist passions, while confronting his critics with the claim that he is merely carrying out the united people's will to establish a new "social contract" and a "system of national unity".
Alliance party Belfast councillor Laura McNamee condemned the violence and blamed the unionist parties for stoking up trouble by allegedly encouraging angry crowds out on to the streets.
He is the man who once accused Margaret Thatcher of imposing a "government of occupation" on Scots, and referred to the British government's taxation of oil revenues from Scottish waters as probably "the greatest act of international larceny since the Spanish stole the Inca gold".As first minister, he has shown a genius for stoking cross-border resentments.
It also takes a hard line against any private company suspected of stoking inflation.
Third, France's overt campaign for a smaller, more exclusive inner core is stoking the fears of Britain and some others.
This could well provoke another war with the north, as Mr Bashir would refuse to recognise the new country—and many countries, especially in Africa, would side with him.Just mess it upThe other way in which the north might disrupt the referendum is by stoking dissent and rebellion in the south to reduce the chance of what it calls a "credible" referendum.
