Sentence examples for stoking tensions from inspiring English sources

Earlier Syria accused Turkey of stoking tensions.

China is now stoking tensions over the Senkakus.

North Korea has made similar conciliatory gestures in the past to win concessions and aid after stoking tensions.

Iran's mullah-led government seems determined to keep stoking tensions with the United States and the rest of the world.

By stoking tensions with the South, North Korea usually seeks to increase its leverage in its talks with Washington, which prizes stability on the divided Korean Peninsula.

But he warned that if North Korea did not abandon its "old playbook" of stoking tensions to win economic concessions from its adversaries, "its isolation would only deepen".

Trade unions, traditionally a bedrock of support for Mr Lukashenka, warn that the uncertainty is stoking tension across the country.

He also hinted at China's fears that America is stoking tension to undermine China, and to encourage Japan to share more of the burden of containing it.

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) — At least 50 people have died in a Sudanese Army mutiny that has spread through the oil-producing Upper Nile State, stoking tension as the south prepares for independence, the military said Sunday.

Chiefly that has centered around stoking tension between the Muslim and Buddhist populations in the country.

Western leaders have threatened additional sanctions against Russia, which they accuse of stoking tension in Ukraine.