It is the constant gnawing down, the undercutting, the inflaming.

If people are comfortable the way they are, you expect them to be good for much inflaming, much striving against another species?"

A major argument against taking military action has been fear that a consequent inflaming of radical passions in the region could destabilize our Muslim allies.

In Mr. Castro's case, that later led to peritonitis, which is an inflaming of the stomach lining, the newspaper said.

Mr. Belayev has been dismissed from the police force for his inflammatory politics, and he was briefly arrested for violating Article 74 in the Russian criminal code, which bans the "inflaming of ethnic feuds."

In Moscow, the Soviet Parliament called on Kirghiz and Uzbeks pitted against each other "not to allow the inflaming of hostilities and blind hatred between people living together for centuries in peace and accord."

Could it be that their position on abortion - seen by them as a "sexist" issue and by others as a "life" issue, with consequent inflaming of emotions on both sides - leads them too far in seeking to silence thoughtful opponents?

Law and Order Minister Adriaan J. Vlok, speaking in Parliament today, said the white extremist movement was being investigated and warned: "Reckless exploitation and the inflaming of emotions and feelings, accompanied by a terrifying show of armed force cannot be tolerated."

He is a part of the whole that inflames her.

As for talking to a Union, that will only inflame the situation.

"I think he's going out of his way to inflame the situation."

Some care is necessary, however, so as not to further inflame the situation.

If we come down on either side, we'll just inflame matters.

There was no need, they said, to inflame the fans any more.

There was nothing about her at this moment to inflame a man's desire.

Can he curb any of them without inflaming the rest?

He'd said it'd only inflame the situation, but how much worse could it get?

John could see inflaming videos playing in his head this very moment.

The last government, in contrast, actually helped to inflame the debate.

As a result, his very presence has come to inflame an already explosive case.

He said a trial would be used by the government "to inflame" the jury.

And in fact the controversy itself did not begin to inflame until decades after the race.

You always see it with any case that inflames the people."

"He goes before a black audiences and lies in their church just to try to inflame them."

But it inflames passions as if it's the most important problem on earth.

We are not trying to inflame passions. Quite the opposite.

To inflame them, she put a little extra hip action in her walk.

Whatever the prince said now would just inflame his father's anger, he knew.

The fact, that moved across the country, served to inflame passions.

No elixir of love was needed to inflame my heart!

We should accordingly be very careful not to inflame the situation in any way.

It would be fitting to inflame the one by turning the other against them.

He has lost much of his power to inflame.