| The way he strokes the ball around a football pitch is akin to the way his compatriot van Gogh stoked a paintbrush over a canvass. |
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| Calls for universal military conscription stoked these editorial fires as well. |
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| Now you may not get too stoked about rare early 45s, but some folks sure do. |
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| First the stove had to be stoked up with peats, then I changed, dried my hair and made a cup of coffee. |
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| Now, almost ten years later, I've got a nine-to-five so when I squeeze 25 days out of the season I'm stoked. |
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| I'm so stoked to hear that government agencies are spying on us for our corporate overlords! |
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| But it also stoked public fear of an invisible horde of foreign interlopers. |
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| They stoked up in all our woods and along our shores before starting their long flights. |
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| I'm stoked that even though the new touchpad looks the same and is the same size, it's loaded with multitouch! |
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| The government is trying to cool an investment boom that stoked economic growth of 9.1 per cent last year, the fastest pace in seven years. |
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| There were some early quotes in the novel that peaked my interest and stoked my hopes for a story with a deeper meaning. |
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| The furnaces that fed them fizzled out long ago, the coal that stoked the fires lies unexcavated in flooded mines. |
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| We lit a bunch of candles, stoked the fire and watched our neighbor decide that a power outage was a good time for snowblowing. |
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| Instead, it has stoked the anger of those who see Charles's refusal to cut ties with his aide as a form of weakness. |
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| In the last week, the netroots could be stoked by any buzz a blogger posted about the campaign. |
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| They'd stoked and banked the fire for the night, drawn the purple drapes, and put a hot bedpan in between her sheets to warm it ready for her. |
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| I really wasn't that stoked about getting into a touchy political discourse with a bunch of drunks I didn't know. |
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| I started to unbutton my jacket as she stoked the fire around the tub of bath water. |
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| He agreed as he alternately stoked the fire and tossed blueberries into the coals. |
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| The dispute was stoked by widespread but mistaken assumptions about how the Iraqis would fight. |
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| I've been training twice a day all year, busting my chops basically to make this team and now it's happened I'm stoked. |
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| Golden State's Thompson stoked the tensions before the series when he accused the Clippers' player of flopping. |
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| Don't you see, it's the likes of you and your ilk, who keep writing this unfounded garbage, that keep the fires stoked. |
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| His reputation suffered, as the diaries fed the fires stoked by sensationalists. |
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| She had planned a witty rejoinder but the sight of him standing in front of her, so arrogantly beautiful, stoked the fires of her temper. |
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| It is not only radical writers and eco-activists who have stoked up fears of unknown risks. |
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| Their account of their explorations, which were of a place that was cool and teeming with game and wildfowl, stoked the interest of the boss. |
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| I was so proud of her and really stoked that she obviously cares for her brother. |
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| On washdays, the tub was filled with cold water using buckets, and a wood or coal fire was stoked up. |
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| Many said they felt the NSA's programmes have been mischaracterised and stoked fears over national security to justify their existence. |
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| The Kremlin has also stoked up a smear campaign against Poland, and unfortunately in Strasbourg some members of this House have succumbed to it. |
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| A 10-foot red tongue of flame spewed from the chimney of a kiln that was constantly stoked to a temperature hot enough to melt iron. |
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| Glazer doesn't have much trouble stigmatizing desire, but he doesn't have much to say about how it gets stoked. |
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| Our number one goal is to keep you psyched on cycling and stoked on Specialized. |
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| A céilidh was blazing, stoked by the Homecoming Swing Band and organic Black Isle Brewery lager. |
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| Stigma and discrimination, stoked by ignorance and a failure of understanding and empathy, are fuelling the HIV epidemic in Canada. |
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| Stuikmanden, plate-filter boxes, then had to be stoked for filtering, scooping, ladling, running off,... And me? |
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| This is a novel and possibly promising approach to follow in situations in which conflict can be stoked by unscrupulous actors. |
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| A record number of dry lightning flashes sparked fires while gusty winds stoked the flames. |
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| When I sent out a wildcard invitation to Kim Clijsters and was later told she accepted, I have to admit, I was pretty stoked. |
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| Pope Francis's trip to Brazil this week has captured hearts and minds as well as stoked pride among officialdom in Rio de Janeiro. |
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| In the 1970's and 80's, increasing rates of divorce stoked our collective anxiety about the demise of the family. |
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| Finally, fears of deflation have been stoked by the European sovereign debt crisis. |
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| On signing the deal he said he was stoked to be getting some core support. |
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| He is stoked to see Bruce get serious this year and make the cut. |
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| We have a little hemp series which I think people are pretty stoked on. |
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| He sprays the crowd, gets his flowers and kisses, and looks pretty stoked. |
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| I'm so stoked to see how he is going to work this whole thing out. |
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| I am totally stoked for you that you've received the go-ahead. |
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| Everybody was super stoked, especially Judd who was skating hella hard. |
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| In 1968, Richard Nixon fine-tuned the strategy, picked the hot button issues of bussing, and quotas, adopted the policy of benign neglect and subtly stoked white racial fears. |
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| You must have been pretty stoked when you found out that Cary would have such a big, juicy arc this season. |
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| He would love to think that his part, however small, in Liverpool's restoration under Houllier has stoked the embers of the club's tartan tradition. |
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| The Blue Jasmine director also addresses the rumor Ronan Farrow is not his son, stoked by Farrow himself. |
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| But transposing such a large number of the cars from their natural Soviet habitat to Middleton's bucolic surroundings has stoked up resentment in the village. |
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| Fischer speculated that the shifting social status of women during the war years stoked male anxiety about female bonding and independence from men. |
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| The government's policies of privatization of public services and cost recovery, the rise of corruption, and government wavering on crucial issues like land and AIDS have stoked the fires of discontent. |
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| He stoked his energy for each evening's entrance to the club by beering-up yet one more time at only two-bits a Coors in The Mariposa. |
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| But concerted efforts to Islamise Pakistan have been breathtaking failures that have stoked these very same ills while exacerbating division. |
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| A number of states have failed to address negative attitudes towards Roma on the part of the general population, often stoked by hostile media reports. |
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| We were all really stoked, but I remember that at 10:59am there was no one there at all. 30 seconds after that, 40,000 people came swarming across the hill towards the stage. |
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| Since 31 January, the debate has been stoked by new contributions. |
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| It is in a perpetual swivet stoked by media for which every interinstitutional dust-up is a crisis. |
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| I was stoked that we were able to get together to put out Rkives. |
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| The EUR was little changed, erasing earlier gains, after figures showing Europe's manufacturing industry continued to contract in August stoked investor concern that the global recession has further to run. |
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| Some will always view him a sectarian hatemonger who stoked the flames of Troubles for decades. |
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| The rapid expansion of China's population from 1949 to the late 1970s stoked the flames of neo-Malthusian demographers. |
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| Twitter and other social media have stoked fan loyalty, Sloane says. |
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| These issues have been stoked to glowing point by the development of biotechnologies based on the use of genes or genetic sequences of human origin. |
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| In the mornings, his kind, smiling grandmother stoked the samovar and his grandfather took care of the rabbits, chickens and other domestic livestock all of the day long. |
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| And it is regrettable that China continues to call for an arms control arrangement which, if its recent behaviour is any indication, would not ban its ASAT activities nor address the fears its actions have stoked. |
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| But barely an hour earlier, as a last day that had been stoked and whipped to a froth from the outset approached its climax, things had finally got out of hand. |
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| Dreams come out of the furnace of your belly which is burning and fired up with the anger of human experience and stoked with faith, hope and love. |
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| Barclays has further stoked the row over bankers' pay by handing out shares worth almost £32m to its management team, including the under-fire chief executive Antony Jenkins. |
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| Yet even that liberality has not stoked the numbers. |
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| But Mr Brown may yet amaze the churls, emerging from the chrysalis of the Treasury a bold and principled leader, and justifying the hopes stoked by Labour's dizzy victory ten years ago. |
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| But, without having to ask his mount too serious a question, Fortune stoked the winner up and brought him home to beat Sandglass by three-quarters of a length. |
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| Poor revenue figures have stoked concerns about possible layoffs. |
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