Word: foments
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...Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and Communities Secretary Hazel Blears, both once tipped as future Labour leaders, are now heading to the backbenches, the favored perch from which to foment rebellion. Two more ministers have also tendered their resignations. "The government is collapsing before our eyes," said David Cameron, the Conservative leader, renewing his call for an early election. (Read "David Cameron: U.K.'s Next Leader...
...April 5 parliamentary election victory spurred more than 10,000 people to mass in Chisinau, the capital of Europe's poorest country. Coordinating via Twitter and text messages, protesters stormed government buildings and clashed with police. Nearly 200 were arrested. President Vladimir Voronin accused Romania of conspiring to foment unrest--a charge Bucharest denied...
...asking large groups of people to perform some task in an open forum. Internet access has become more than just a technical issue in recent years, as the Web has become a portal for political dissent and information dissemination that many governments fear might foment unrest. Authoritarian governments frequently censor Internet access, restricting access to pro-democracy sites and sites for organizations documenting human rights violations. China, for instance, denies access to web pages describing the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 and Falun Gong, an outlawed religious group. According to Law School Professor Jonathan L. Zittrain, who conceived...
...actor Michael Richards, or the return of the American war dead in caskets. They also frequently make the news, such as soldiers' photographs made in the Abu Ghraib prison or the videos of captive either pleading for their lives or being murdered that are expressly made by insurgents to foment terror...It may be time for professionals to pay more attention to how amateurs envision the world...
...Shouting is a good way to foment conflict, but it's not the best way to inform." - explaining, in 1999, why she preferred PBS's understated news delivery to that of pundit-heavy network television...