1 to cause something bad or illegal to develop:
to foment revolution
These observations suggest that visual experience foments the maturation of an isotropic cor tical representation of orientation preference.
The cruder method of fomenting military coups had been replaced by financing and training civilian opponents, but the aim was still the same.
During the first two stages, the functional requirements of the par t should foment the design idea.
It is not a good thing to have a vested interest in fomenting unrest.
In the immediate post-war period this involved considerable central state redirection of resources away from the military toward reconstruction, fomenting local resentment.
Officially, the payment was intended to propitiate the troops and, hence, to reduce their tendency to loot and foment disorder.
Such an assertion sits uncomfortably with her own emphasis on colonialism's central role in fomenting "gender pacts" that preserved men's privilege and reinforced religious and class hierarchies.
Household integration in the functioning village is fomented by par t-time specialization and exchange.
