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foment

(fō-mĕnt′)
tr.v. fo·mented, fo·menting, fo·ments
1. To arouse or incite (trouble, for example).
2. To treat (the skin, for example) by fomentation.

fo·ment′er n.
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Griffith's racist film, Birth of a Nation, in 1915, a notable fomenter of racial antagonism in its own right.
He undoubtedly left in his wake some `Gnostic school', still active when the Acts were written, and even later, since Hippolytus (100-65 AD) compares him to the `grave Heraclitus' and Eusebius of Caesarea (265-340 AD) also sees him as the first fomenter of every heresy.
Yet, Sullivan argues, using the government to enforce some citizens' views of virtue and the good life over others' is what liberalism was "invented specifically to oppose." Having reversed its policy, its modern successor "has now come to seem a fomenter of social division," "deeply implicated" in growing societal warfare.
S'il est normal que des desaccords surviennent au sujet de certaines questions precises -- ce qui constitue globalement de soi un signe de bonne sante- , le PPS emet des reserves et refuse totalement le fait de fomenter artificiellement des desaccords, d'exagerer l'ampleur des divergences ou de les mettre au service de petits calculs politiciens et irresponsables.
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Ainsi, les officiers militaires seraient de droit d'arreter toute personne commettant des crimes ou des actes de vandalisme, ou suspectee fomenter des troubles ou tenter de destabiliser le pays.
Indian audiences can be skeptical of such a tack, given pervasive sentiments there that the Pakistani government is a fomenter, rather than pure victim, of Islamist extremism.
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