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Their systematic actions to these ends definitively puts paid to the idea that they were deliberately stoking the racial violence.
Pervasive clientelism and personalism have inevitably stoked the fires of corruption.
The eruption of the border war stoked the old fears of survival, and revived the sense of collective responsibility nurtured for half a century.
One sign of commercialism is its tendency to inflate need by stoking desire.
More orthodox critics feared that he was only stoking up a consumer boom which would reap the whirlwind in a vast price inflation.
The investment financed by this borrowing stoked up demand for commodities, permitting sales to be maintained at higher and higher prices.
In other words, fears of the problematic female consumer merged with and were stoked by anxieties about the new female citizen.
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