| The economic crisis fomented significant unrest in both countries, leading to a rise in nationalist fervor and rhetoric. |
| Thus, for the government, the riots were outbursts of anarchic criminality, often fomented by outside agitators. |
| So, in order to maintain any dignity, I have fomented instead my Macchiavellian plot to discomfit and embarrass David Bowie and myself. |
| But xenophobia and ultranationalism have always been fomented by dictatorships which run out of ideology. |
| Western colonial governments of old had to look out for rebellions fomented by the ulema. |
| As the protest movement waned, the military deliberately fomented communal conflict as a means of reasserting its authority. |
