How To Use Foment In A Sentence

In an attempt to divert the resulting social unrest, Stalinist bureaucrats and communalist demagogues fomented nationalist sentiments while seeking patrons among the major powers.
If we condemn Ahmadinejad and other patrons of terrorism, we must, with equal force, commend those Muslim intellectuals and religious leaders who have the courage to speak out publicly against the continued fomentation of Holocaust denial and other manifestations of Judaeophobia in their midst. Menachem Rosensaft: Finding Common Ground
The besiegement of a people can only erode moderation, foment hatred, and bring Palestinians and Israelis back to darker times. All Roads Lead to Checkpoints
The captain's behavior is at the center of two probes, one led by Italian coast guard and one by Italian prosecutors, who are investigating in part whether Mr. Schettino's conduct after the shipwreck fomented a disorderly evacuation. Italian Captain: 'We Abandoned the Ship'
The prince's lawyer, Benjamin Reznik, notes other residences in the neighborhood are super-sized and says opposition has been "fomented" by neighbor Martha Karsh, the wife of Oaktree Capital Management founder Bruce Karsh. Living Very Large

Exactly a year earlier in the Tuskegee courthouse, his congressman, Tom Heflin, had attacked him as a liar and troublemaker, a fomenter of racial strife, a dangerous Negro. Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington
Indeed, as I soothed my bruised nerves with brandy fomentations that night, I reflected that there were worse places than India; there was Aberdeenshire, with Ignatieff loose in the bracken, hoping to hang my head on his gunroom wall. Fiancée
Take three cantharides, and removing their head, feet, and wings, triturate their bodies in three cupfuls (cyathi) of water, and when the person who has drunk the draught complains of pain, let him have hot fomentations applied. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
Communist Party, making charges against us at the various congresses of communist parties, sending written statements to the different communist parties in Latin America and accusing Cuba of meddling in its domestic affairs and supporting and fomenting fractionalism. FIDEL CASTRO 13 MARCH ANNIVERSARY SPEECH
Seeing this, Mrs. Jo proposed that she should learn how to do it nicely, and Nursey had an apt pupil in bandaging, plastering, and fomenting. Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
Then the thigh, and the whole of the leg, must be fomented with a decoction made of sage, rosemary, thyme, lavender, flowers of chamomile and melilot, red roses boiled in white wine, with a drying powder made of oak -- ashes and a little vinegar and half a handful of salt. ... The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
El ex presidente de REFIDOMSA dijo que este grupo de empresas y personas de Estado se han dedicado a fomentar la pobreza en Haití, proponiendo que la Republica Dominicana sirva de muleta a la centenaria situación de miseria y marginalidad que viven la gran mayoría de nuestros vecinos. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
That's the kind of thing that probably causes ulcers, and as such probably also foments very unhealthy attitudes.
Objecting to estate-tax repeal on the grounds that it benefits only the very wealthiest exposes leaders to charges of fomenting class conflict in our classless society, of being a divider instead of a uniter.
You're speaking corresponding with someone who is outraged by the actions of ACORN, who wonders, when he votes, if his franchise has been made irrelevant by the fog of false data created by their "canvassers"; with someone who is outraged that his taxes go to support professional rabble rousers with no demonstrable purpose except to foment unrest. Jeffrey Rosen on the two important race cases that will be argued in the Supreme Court in the next few days.
Every two blocks or so he would leave the parade to renew an old acquaintanceship or foment a new one.
Hot fomentation, wax bath or ultrasonics can improve symptoms.
The center tries to foment debate, providing daily forums for visitors to discuss knotty topics (such as free speech, privacy and the Internet, the day I was there).
Sed quoniam firmioribus remediis nondum tempus est et eam mentium constat esse naturam, ut quotiens abiecerint ueras falsis opinionibus induantur ex quibus orta perturbationum caligo uerum illum confundit intuitum, hanc paulisper lenibus mediocribusque fomentis attenuare temptabo, ut dimotis fallacium affectionum tenebris splendorem uerae lucis possis agnoscere. The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
He called it "willful fomentation" and "gratuitous" to republish them throughout Europe. A Muslim Reformer on the Mosque
Hot fomentations would give great relief, but did not give sufficient rest to the joint to permit of a cure.
While the external application of warm herbal poultices, plasters, or fomentations is commonly used as a counterirritant to relieve underlying pain and congestion, others having a cooler, anti-inflammatory action are used for the treatment of more inflamed injuries and inflammations, and to promote the healing of burns, tissue, and broken bones. THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
So, in order to maintain any dignity, I have fomented instead my Macchiavellian plot to discomfit and embarrass David Bowie and myself.
But this was not the moment to foment a breach with one of the men who were, at least in theory, his masters. KING OF DREAMS
During its sixty years of colonial rule, Britain controlled the population by fomenting regional and ethnic divisions.
The question, of course, is ‘Will he foment violence?’
Just because I have ‘free speech’ does not mean I can foment racial hatred or incite someone in a pub to beat someone else up.
The nut graph is this one, where Cramer explains how easy it is to create "foment" around a stock: Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com
Jon Green, the director of Connecticut Working Families, told the New York Times on Friday that his group would be "peaceful and lawful" and would not "foment" lingering rage at AIG Latest Articles
Thomé says that Boletus laricis and Polyporus fomentarius yield the “amadou” of commerce. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
Now, as an Al Qaeda field commander sporting a bandolier of bullets, he is threatening the United States and has been hailed by a militant Web site as a veteran guerrilla and "a fomenter of war. News about one freed Guantanamo Bay prisoner that you won't find reported on the BBC
`Contrary to what those chaps believe," he said, `we are going in to prevent trouble, or contain it, not foment it. THE SCAR
`Contrary to what those chaps believe," he said, `we are going in to prevent trouble, or contain it, not foment it. THE SCAR
Political relics of the 70s are fomenting a ‘stop the tour’ wave of hysteria, glorying in the echoes of their salad days.
The notion of the many growing out of the one is counterposed in mythology by the idea of two opposing principles of existence, the struggles and foment of which provide the seeds of creation.
His intention to advance the cause of reunifying the Vulcan and Romulan people remained, as did his conviction that the current Romulan schism provided an opportunity to foment such an advance. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
If the goal is to stabilize Iraq, fomenting intragroup violence might not be the best path. Iraqification: A Losing Strategy
It is taboo, embarrassment and sexuality's enforced covertness which foments ‘sauciness’, prurience, and notions of filth.
Egyptian alum pulverized, form into an oblong ball (suppository?) and warming it gently at the fire, make it into a cataplasm, foment, form it into shape with the fingers, and then making it quite tepid, introduce it into the anus. On Fistulae
These religious schools still preach an insidious doctrine that foments the sectarian violence that is increasingly a threat to the stability of Pakistan.
The bushliar-criminal regime has fomented the worst class warfare, societal striation, and diverseness in American society in at least a generation. Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: The end of the end of racism
Recognizing that the artisan is a vital natural resource, the state of Michoacán just this year enacted the new Ley de Fomento Artesanal (Law for the Promotion of the Craft Industry), broader in scope than any other state's legislation, raising the artisan's lot and putting its imprimatur upon Vasco de Quiroga's dream. Santa Clara del Cobre & Erongaricuaro
By the time recreation was under way, the task would be to foment rumour and excitement, but still with nothing concrete being said. THE SCAR
Having fomented with plenty of hot water, boil in the water certain of the fragrant medicines, add pounded tamarisk, roasted litharge and galls, and pour on them white wine, and oil, and the grease of a goose, pounding all together. On Hemorrhoids
Fox "News" has long been a fomenter of violent crime, encouraging the tin-foil hat crowd to embark on mercenary missions to take out liberals and other normal, thinking people in waves of violent crimes in churches, woman's health clinics, and pretty much anywhere they find them, and this was true of the so-called witless tea party protests of Obama's tax reform plan. Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
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The song was banned on the grounds that it might foment racial tension.
Somehow, Marshall has developed the idea fomented by Sam himself, no doubt that Sam is on the verge of greatness, that his unique line of bull is, in fact, the truth, instead of delusional fantasies of how Sam would like to see his life. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
It was they who fomented a broad cultural redefinition of what an artist was. Bill Lasarow: The Revolution Ended. Long Live the Revolution
Isn't it weird that you never know about the s*** that's in the products you use until there's some kind of foment to take it out? Minn. to ban mercury in beauty products on Yahoo! News
Another kind of fomentation is composed of dried poppyheads, 4 oz. The Book of Household Management
But this was not the moment to foment a breach with one of the men who were, at least in theory, his masters. KING OF DREAMS
They could use their combat skills to foment a violent revolution.
But this was not the moment to foment a breach with one of the men who were, at least in theory, his masters. KING OF DREAMS
Most people can sense a ‘grand design’ to bring Indonesia to its knees by fomenting violence and unrest across the archipelago.
In fact, we think she's a Utopian sent to foment unrest within the Confederacy.
`Contrary to what those chaps believe," he said, `we are going in to prevent trouble, or contain it, not foment it. THE SCAR
Speak platitudes in English, foment terrorism in Arabic and the United States will apply pressure to fellow democracies over and against those who rule by bullets rather than ballots. CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2002
Nuclear weapons research went on, but beyond the public gaze and without any open attempt to foment jingoism or gain political mileage.
As the protest movement waned, the military deliberately fomented communal conflict as a means of reasserting its authority.
Liberating the oppressed and deposing tyrants are moral choices; appeasing dictators and fomenting hatred of those who would overcome them are immoral choices
Jon Green, the director of Connecticut Working Families, told the New York Times on Friday that his group would be "peaceful and lawful" and would not "foment" lingering rage at AIG "unnecessarily. Latest Articles
Turpentine may also be rubbed over the chest with fomentation for the same object. Natural Remedies for Curing Bronchitis
_That the country of D'Elmina, which was formerly very powerful and populous, was in his time so much drained of its inhabitants by the intestine wars fomented amongst the Negroes by the Dutch, that there did not remain inhabitants enough to till the country_. Some Historical Account of Guinea, Its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of Its Inhabitants An Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade, Its Nature and Lamentable Effects
He may be a prolific speaker and writer and fomenter of violence, but what a moniker. POLITICALLY CORRECT "LEAST WANTED"
It's the only form of politics he knows: You foment a crisis, then use deceit, fear and brute force to impose your radical agenda.
And here are the American fomenters of disorder.
The infusion of Wormwood makes a useful fomentation for inflammatory pains, and, combined with chamomile flowers and bay leaves, it formed the anodyne fomentation of the earlier dispensatories. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
Does the hard left still plan and theorise about how best to foment revolution in the UK, do they engage in entryism and agitation, and so forth?
Damascus has long said the uprising against it has been fomented by foreign agents and Islamist terrorists, but has stopped short of publicly blaming al Qaeda. Bombs Raise Stakes in Syria
Sed quoniam firmioribus remediis nondum tempus est et eam mentium constat esse naturam, ut quotiens abiecerint ueras falsis opinionibus induantur ex quibus orta perturbationum caligo uerum illum confundit intuitum, hanc paulisper lenibus mediocribusque fomentis attenuare temptabo, ut dimotis fallacium affectionum tenebris splendorem uerae lucis possis agnoscere. The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
The working class must reject all such attempts to foment nationalist sentiments in the name of defending the welfare state.
But by the same token, it's not a good thing for them to be fomenting world opinion against us either.
In a letter sent to the panel's members on Tuesday, James J. Gerace, president of Verizon's New York region, accused the Communication Workers of America, which represents many of the striking employees, of fomenting a campaign against the contract by disseminating what he called "patently false" information about Verizon's role in the theft charges. NYT > Home Page
They have seen them as fomenters of sectarian discord.
This has already had the effect of increasing tensions and is fomenting political hatred.
you knwo the agency who was started and fomented by the brother of aldous huxley that tried to warn us in story the way that orwell did? Obama to press forward with other stuff most Americans hate
Esoula nil nobis, sed dat linaria _taurum_," implying that the herb was of old valued for its good effects when applied externally to piles as an ointment, a fomentation, or a poultice, each being made from the leaves and the flowers. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
His legs should be fomented
Mr. Blaine's wonderful magnetism, the impression he made upon every one, and his tactful flattery of local pride, did a great deal to remove the prejudices against him, which were being fomented by a propaganda of a "mugwump" committee in New York. My Memories of Eighty Years
Mr. Schmidt is familiar with the game as chief technology officer of Sun Microsystems in the 1990s, he was a chief fomenter of the antitrust assault on Bill Gates Google and the Search for the Future
His father, Vincenzio Galilei, was a musician whose originality and polemic talents fomented a revolution uniting practice and theory in music much as Galileo was to unite them in science.
More than any military operation, this kind of power projection works against the fomentation of militant hatred towards them.
After the revelations of Ben Trafford's past track record and including his level of honesty and truthfulness in business dealing, his criminal record for fraud and deceit and deceitful business practices, his swindling of employees and investors and handing out bad checks, I can't regard his comments here as either benignly or well-meaningly fomented. Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it
Fox "News" has long been a fomenter of violent crime, encouraging the tin-foil hat crowd to embark on mercenary missions to take out liberals and other normal, thinking people in waves of violent crimes in churches, woman's health clinics, and pretty much anywhere they find them, and this was true of the so-called witless tea party protests of Obama's tax reform plan. Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
In fact, the academies were as much fomenters as symptoms of a major change.
Let the in-fightin 'inject fuel and foment a lot of fiery exchanges and don't forget the Blue Dog Dems for one second. Democrats splinter in contentious health care reform debate
Hot fomentation should be applied to open up the skin pores and squeeze out the waste matter. Natural Remedies for Curing Acne
Applying hot packs to the spine, hot or cold foot bath and hot fomentation to the spine before going to bed are all proven methods. Natural Remedies for Curing Insomnia
If this had occurred today, I could possibly blame it on their anti-American attitude perhaps fomented by the ranting of one of the most visibly outspoken critics of the "commies" -- Sarah Palin. Harvey Gotliffe, Ph.D.: Don't Blame Palin, Blame Stalin
The peacemaker, by laying bare the violence that must be overcome, frequently appears to be the fomenter of the very violence being opposed.
Jeb Bush is trying to create a way forward for Republicans with Latino voters, but that path may be permanently blocked by the anti-immigration hysteria being fomented by Senator Jeff Sessions, Representative Steve King, Representative Lamar Smith, Representative Elton Gallegly, and the entire Republican "nativist lobby. Frank Sharry: GOP Hispanic Conference Highlights Deep Denial on Immigration
And moreover if, while the pain of the side persists, and does not yield to warm fomentations, and the sputa are not brought up, but are viscid and unconcocted, unless one get the pain resolved, either by loosening the bowels, or opening a vein, whichever of these may be proper; — if to persons so circumstanced ptisan be administered, their speedy death will be the result. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
For more years than I care to recall, the media have served as a willing accessory in fomenting environmental hysteria.
Some sharp-tongued commentators even take delight in instigating crowds and fomenting a rebellion.
The fairies created fairy dust to foment, or stir up trouble.
In implementing a policy against transnational crime and terrorism, we must, nonetheless, respect human rights and avoid measures that will lead to further radicalization and foment terrorism.
Bernick: That is perfectly true; he is an agitator and a fomenter of discontent; but such an unscrupulous thing as this — Look here, Krap; you must look into the matter once more. Pillars of Society
He is so utterly rotten he manages to make devils like Perle look positively benign in comparison, and his current evil is fomenting the attack on Iran.
That same stomachus cedere nescius found in most, is the thing that foments quarrels, and keeps men at such unpeaceable distances. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
To be sure, they give it hot, but we do not object to that, since 'water hot ne'er made a sot,' and it cures dyspepsia and all forms of indigestion as whisky never did, but only made believe to; while its external use as a fomentation is banishing alcohol even for old folks '' rheumatiz 'where, as a remedy, it would be likely to make its final stand. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
Eventually the Federal services fingered a recently dead scientist as the fomenter of the attacks. Matthew Edlund, M.D.: Food Safety and Terrorism
Yet when the panic hit, it was the presence of these assets on bank balance sheets that fomented a global loss of trust in banks. The Meltdown Remains a Whodunit
Putting aside for the moment my surprise that Dubya even knows the meaning of the word "foment," I think a GOP talking point i.e., what Tony Snow will say will be that Dubya said Friedman could be right, not that he actually was right. Iraq: officially a quagmire
There is an art to folding and making fomentations work right.
If the mediascape is not open and pluralistic, these viewpoints may leave the democratic sphere and foment violence.
The reasons for the fomentation of militancy have been spectacularly perpetuated by your very own government.
Once again they are superb at building a picture of the times, especially the foment of ideas and information that found fertile ground in the coteries and cliques of Restoration coffee-shop culture.
Other treatments included massages with hot fomentations and salt glows; electric light cabinet for patients with pleurisy and obesity; infra ray lamp treatments; and sitz baths, perineal douches, and hot and cold compresses.
The song was banned on the grounds that it might foment racial tension.
Perhaps it's well past time to hit the real source of this fomentation - the Iranian Mullahs. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
It is used to foment fear and political disorientation as a means of pushing through policies that were previously politically unthinkable.
By the time recreation was under way, the task would be to foment rumour and excitement, but still with nothing concrete being said. THE SCAR
Fox News, a factory of propaganda and lies on the best of days, has decided "the hell with it" and become an outright partisan fomenter of "revolution. Ellis Weiner: Life in These Untied States
A large number of mushroom species including Ganoderma lucidum, Coriolus versicolor, Fomes fomentarius, Tremella fuciformis and Lentinus edodes are traditionally used in Chinese folk medicines.
That detention, according to authorities, was for his own safety, which later changed when he was charged with fomenting violence.
By the time recreation was under way, the task would be to foment rumour and excitement, but still with nothing concrete being said. THE SCAR
That money should have gone to build up schools and foment democracy (Sen. Obama: please do not use the word "foment" - I'm not sure what it means). Matt Littman: Friday Night's Debate: How Obama Can Deliver the KO
Self-help measures such as fomentation, cold packs, gentle massage with topical agents to relieve pain can be very soothing.
Crass never went about anything in an orthodox manner during their tenure as fomenters of dissent from 1977 to 1984.
In 1804, the nation roared into existence after a decade-long slave revolt fomented by Toussaint Louverture, which ultimately resulted in Napoleon getting beaten at his own game -- and the world's first republic winning independence from France. Marcia Dyson: Love in the Time of the Haitian Cholera
Philip was unwilling to face excommunication, for that could easily give his enemies within France the excuse they needed to foment open rebellion.
Now, as an Al Qaeda field commander sporting a bandolier of bullets, he is threatening the United States and has been hailed by a militant Web site as a veteran guerrilla and "a fomenter of war. News about one freed Guantanamo Bay prisoner that you won't find reported on the BBC
Western colonial governments of old had to look out for rebellions fomented by the ulema (religious scholars).
Adams was the head terrorist, the major fomenter of it all. Justin Frank: Sagebrush Fire
NOUAKCHOTT - Mauritanian authorities arrested the leaders of the country's two main opposition parties, accusing them of fomenting three days of riots in the capital Nouakchott, state radio said. ANC Daily News Briefing
The role of women in fomenting male aggression is, I now believe, marginal, even irrelevant.
Thus, for the government, the riots were outbursts of anarchic criminality, often fomented by outside agitators.
In implementing a policy against transnational crime and terrorism, we must, nonetheless, respect human rights and avoid measures that will lead to further radicalization and foment terrorism.
Peat baths and peat fomentations have been used since the beginning of time to alleviate pain and disease.
In the weeks leading up to Tuesday's ouster of President Mohamed Nasheed, his political adversaries fomented opposition among conservative Muslims by claiming Mr. Nasheed's government was trying to undermine their faith. Islamism Set Stage for Maldives Coup
Three years later, it is the imam who the majority of Americans believe is engaging in "willful fomentation. A Muslim Reformer on the Mosque
Why do the "dividers" hate the bridge builders, and why do they think it is good for the nation to foment a faux culture war? William K. Black: Busting NewsBusters
The very sight of a convent-spire was sufficient to set their Moslem blood in a foment, and they sacked it with as fierce a zeal as though the sacking of a nunnery were a sure passport to Elysium. Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies
Haec enim nondum morbi tui remedia sed adhuc contumacis aduersum curationem doloris fomenta quaedam sunt. The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
They were agitators, fomenting revolution and stirring up the working class, and they had to be taught a lesson.
This has already had the effect of increasing tensions and is fomenting political hatred.
But if you are neither disposed to burn nor excise, having first fomented with plenty hot water and turned out the anus, levigate myrrh, and having burnt galls and Egyptian alum, in the proportion of one and On Hemorrhoids
The activists were charged with fomenting revolution.
The sub-committe, inquiring into the KZP's alleged role in fomenting public violence in Natal, heard that urgent requests for information relating to G3 rifles suspectedly used in the ANC Daily News Briefing
But the government is surely watching, aware that Internet discussions can foment unrest.
I had been completely and utterly had by a group of traders who fomented what amounted to a nonbuying short squeeze that snared me and only me. Jim Cramer's Real Money
And moreover if, while the pain of the side persists, and does not yield to warm fomentations, and the sputa are not brought up, but are viscid and unconcocted, unless one get the pain resolved, either by loosening the bowels, or opening a vein, whichever of these may be proper; — if to persons so circumstanced ptisan be administered, their speedy death will be the result. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
If it was anything else then maybe it was “domestic terrorism inspired by the likes of hatemongers like Palin, Beck, and Limbaugh” or “the inevitable sort of terrorist act fomented by the racist teabaggers.” So… who did it? | RedState
Indeed, she seems not to recognize that state-sponsored inequalities foment terror far more effectively than lax banking laws.
Ambitious for power, the wily Sejanus now used his opportunity to pick away at the scab of resentment between Livia and Agrippina, attempting to foment the empress’s and her son’s antagonism toward Germanicus’s widow by trading on what Tacitus described as Agrippina’s “insubordination” and “ill-concealed maternal ambitions.” Caesars’ Wives
The economic crisis fomented significant unrest in both countries, leading to a rise in nationalist fervor and rhetoric.
In his memoirs, Joseph Holt recalled the fomentation of what was to become the Castle Hill rebellion.

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