fomenter
- Examples
Les pharisiens, impatients de secouer le joug conquérant, fomentaient la haine populaire contre les Romains. | The Pharisees, on the other hand, fostered the popular hatred against the Romans, longing for the time when they could throw off the yoke of the conqueror. |
- Quel risque ? On a refusé de vendre des armes à des rebelles qui fomentaient un coup d'Etat. | You'd never take such a risk. |
Malgré un moral bas à bord des navires, ils continuaient leur périple ; l'amiral, Rojestvenski, fut contraint de pendre plusieurs matelots qui fomentaient une mutinerie pour rebrousser chemin. | Despite low morale on board the ships, the ships sailed on; the admiral, Rozhdestvensky, was forced to hang several sailors who were urging a mutiny in order to turn back. |
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