Sentence examples for stoking them from inspiring English sources
At the same time, it knows that stoking them will harm its reputation abroad.
Trump is doing the opposite — he's taking popular passions and stoking them, by demonizing the Other".
Politicians are so scared of challenging voters' prejudices they are stoking them instead.
FREE-ROAMING rebels in west Africa have a habit of poking their noses into each others' wars—and stoking them up.
It is also well known that Hong Kong's people, jealous of the freedoms they enjoyed under the British and, since 1997, as a special administrative region of China, fear losing them in a creeping process of absorption by the mainland.So it is surprising that rather than trying to allay these fears, Mr Leung, by design or political leaden-footedness, has been stoking them.
The statement and conflicting follow-ups from economic officials and finance ministries around the world caused confusion on Tuesday, with some market participants interpreting the situation as quelling fears of a so-called currency war and others interpreting it as stoking them.
Women are shown pornography that "stoked them — stoked them instantly — toward lust".
The easy communication can relieve fears — but also stoke them.
China's gunboats, meant to still tensions, may stoke them instead.
Whatever your hopes or fears for the future of the world's religions, a report published this week has plenty to stoke them.
The coalition also must be pressed to calm divisions among Lebanon's Sunnis, Shiites and Christians rather than stoke them as critics alleged in the campaign.
