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Examples
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Yeah, with republicans it is always a "mistake" just like the moron from Florida who formented about indoctrinating America's youth by encouraging to take their education seriously.
Heckler Wilson 'a decent guy' with lock on district, observers say 2009
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Kenya from where his father hails from was earlier in year plunged into severe political crisis formented by a leader who in full public glare rigged elections to remain in power.
Challenges For Africa in The Obama Presidency Ajong77 2009
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Pakistan now mostly Muslim and India mostly Hindu only formented through England.
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But former president Kenneth Kaunda has denied accusations that his party, the country's main opposition, formented the rioting.
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The violence is engineered and formented by elements of the Third Force.
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The violence is engineered and formented by elements of the Third
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Experience has demonstrated that, if work discipline is lost, control is relaxed, absenteeism is formented -- all those things.
SECOND UJC CONGRESS 1972
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Mr. Nehru has publicly accused the Pakistan authorities of having formented the tribesmens 'attack on Kashmir.
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At the time of the schism this difference of practice gave rise to much discussion of the value of their respective claims in following the example of Christ, and formented bitter controversy even in recent years.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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It must be acknowledged, however, that this determined hostility does not originate solely in savage malignity, or an abstract thirst for the blood of white men; it is formented and kept alive from year to year by incessant provocatives on the part of white hunters, trappers, and traders, who are at best but intruders on the rightful domains of the red man of the wilderness.
Townsend Chapter 6 1839
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