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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
foment .
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Examples
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In sometimes heart-breaking imagery, the film exposes many of the effects of globalization; the ways that it destroys livelihoods and foments conflicts; the ways that people are forced off their lands, in many cases having those lands appropriated by governments doing the bidding of corporations.
Catherine Ingram: Localization: The Film! Catherine Ingram 2011
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In sometimes heart-breaking imagery, the film exposes many of the effects of globalization; the ways that it destroys livelihoods and foments conflicts; the ways that people are forced off their lands, in many cases having those lands appropriated by governments doing the bidding of corporations.
Catherine Ingram: Localization: The Film! Catherine Ingram 2011
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This was the same hooey that got Gen. David Petraeus tied up in knots a while back when he suggested in written testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Palestinian conflict "foments anti-American sentiment, due to a perception of U.S. favoritism for Israel" and that the failure to satisfy the Palestinians' desire for a state poses a threat to our national interests.
Another myth revived about Israel Jennifer Rubin 2011
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The women still lack the care they require, our culture still foments a brokenness that leads to these issues being present in the first place, and meanwhile the personhood agenda is no closer to being realized.
Christian Piatt: When Legislating Morality Falls Short Christian Piatt 2011
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But as their lives become even more strained, hardship foments exceptional compassion and generosity, and those caught in their own sorrow alleviate the same in others, changing themselves as they do so.
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Now he's playing a new CGI role: Caesar, a chimpanzee who foments an ape revolution in the new "Apes" movie coming out on Aug. 5.
The Ape Man Cometh Rachel Dodes 2011
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It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
Think Progress » Wall Street Republicans Form ‘Action Tank’ To Push Corporate Agenda 2010
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… The conflict foments anti-American sentiment, due to a perception of U.S. favoritism for Israel.
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Implication being that Schroeder foments these feelings so as to further socialize the country.
Happiness Research Still Makes Me Unhappy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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This time, he plays Caesar, a genetically enhanced chimp who foments a revolution.
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