A groundbreaking effort, it expands both the definition and the fomenters of Pop, reshaping it as the global phenomenon that it was.
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She decries globalisation as a threat to French jobs and Islamists as fomenters of terror who make it perilous to wear a short skirt in public.
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Once you summon it, you may safely dismiss your opponents as wild-eyed fomenters of discord without addressing the substance of their disagreements with you on policy proposals.
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Yes, contrary to common belief, Facebook and other social media sites may not be the fomenters of hyper-polarization often thought; they could, in fact, be a powerful force that pushes us out of our ideological silos.
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All of this presents a real-world Joker, Dr. No or similar "world villain" dilemma: It is easier to destabilize and disorient than it is to restabilize and reorient, and that gives a gigantic head start to the fomenters.
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This view has arisen from an admixture of pacifism and an insistence on diminishing the moral as well as political disaster of slavery; and it has sometimes led its advocates to demonize the abolitionists as the chief fomenters of an unnecessary war.
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Clergy attacked them in sermons and in print, and at times mobs attacked them. Wesley and his followers continued to work among the neglected and needy. They were denounced as promulgators of strange doctrines, fomenters of religious disturbances; as blind fanatics, leading people astray, claiming miraculous gifts, attacking the clergy of the Church of England, and trying to re-establish Catholicism. Wesley felt that the church failed to call sinners to repentance, that many of the clergy were corrupt, and that people were perishing in their sins.
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A large portrait of Chiang Kai-shek was displayed above Tiananmen after WWII. The fomenters of the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 sought to replace Qing rule with a republic and leaders like Sun Yat-sen originally intended to return the capital to Nanjing. After the Qing general Yuan Shikai forced the abdication of the last Qing emperor and ensured the success of the revolution, the revolutionaries accepted him as president of the new Republic of China. Yuan maintained his capital at Beijing and quickly consolidated power, declaring himself emperor in 1915.
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Huntly was apparently inclined to peace, but the action of the government drove him to assume hostilities in self-defence. On 19 March 1643-4 a band of his followers ‘came galloping through the Old Town to New Aberdeen,’ and taking the provost and other magistrates prisoners, brought them to Strathbogie. On 16 March Huntly had published a declaration protesting that any acts of hostility he might commit were in self-defence, and on the 20th explained that his reason for seizing the provost and other magistrates was that they ‘were well known to have been scandalous fomenters of a dangerous distraction’. On the 24th he entered the city at the head of 240 horse, and on the 28th plundered the town of its arms and ammunition.
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Stone always advocated the abolition of slavery by congressional action in the columns of the Commercial Advertiser, as well as the activities of the American Colonization Society. He served as President of the New York Colonization Society. At the anti-slavery convention at Baltimore in 1825, he originated and drew up the plan for slave emancipation, including the deportation of all freed slaves out of the United States and financial compensation to slaveholders, which was recommended at that time to Congress for adoption.Adams, Alice Dana, The Neglected Period of Anti-Slavery in America, Radcliffe 1908 He was one of the leading public critics of the American Anti-Slavery Society and others in favor of "immediate emancipation" and has been called one of the principal fomenters of the Anti-abolitionist riots (1834).
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