Theodore Roosevelt fomented Panama's secession from Colombia when the latter refused to let him build his canal.

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The framers witnessed the incessant wars of the mother continent and understood official churches and centralized power fomented abuses.

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Yet the pipeline has fomented heavy debate in the U.S., pitting legislator against legislator and one government department against another.

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My own denomination is in the midst of a massive schism, theologically fomented in one of our more conservative seminaries.

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The Berliner Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau, for example, have fomented some hysteria by publishing dozens of agitprop articles, some by Mely Kiyak, a first-generation German whose parents were Turkish-Kurdish immigrants.

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Then was the confusion that the spammer-selected name fomented.

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Popular opposition in Europe is once again being fomented.

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The prince's lawyer, Benjamin Reznik, notes other residences in the neighborhood are super-sized and says opposition has been "fomented" by neighbor Martha Karsh, the wife of Oaktree Capital Management founder Bruce Karsh.

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