Sentence examples for was fomenting from inspiring English sources
verb
To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
- He was arrested for fomenting a riot
To the right, it looked like Ford was fomenting urban rebellion.
It was the Ayatollah Khomeini himself who was fomenting this kind of disorder and class warfare.
Mr Erdogan retorted that Mr Maliki was fomenting sectarian strife with his clampdown on Sunni politicians.
If you listen to certain liberal pundits, you'd think that talk radio was fomenting a wave of right-wing violence.
The Americans would send him to a meeting of clerics with a question, such as whether Iranian influence was fomenting violence.
And where they have been specific, as with the accusation that the Fed was fomenting inflation, they have been entirely wrong.
"It was fomented by people who are taking a very limited view of things," he said.
Meanwhile, the suspicion was fomented that Tshekedi wanted the chieftainship for himself, driving a further wedge between uncle and nephew.
The civil war was fomented partly by Mrs. Gbagbo, according to the I.C.C., which issued an arrest warrant for her in February 2012.
There has been much speculation that the terror was fomented by obscure forces seeking to create a climate so frightening that such a coup would be welcome.
