Stirring-up Sentence Examples

Jonny isn't quite ready yet to deal with the Others who have been stirring up trouble within the vamp ranks.

One thing she didn't need today was Josh stirring up trouble.

That's just inviting problems – stirring up conflict where it doesn't exist.

Paul forbade Roman Catholics to take the oath; but to no purpose, beyond stirring up a literary controversy.

Sanders, however, found his opportunity in the following year, when a force of Spaniards and Italians was despatched to Smerwick to assist James Fitzmaurice and his Geraldines in stirring up an Irish rebellion.

After the outbreak of war his activities were mainly directed to stirring up the patriotic spirit of the people, as in his messages to the Chambers of Aug.

Instead of stirring up persecution against the Christians, he extended to them the strong hand of his protection throughout the empire.

He was a member of the Aepytid family, the son of Nicomedes (or, according to another version, of Pyrrhus) and Nicoteleia, and took a prominent part in stirring up the revolt against Sparta and securing the co-operation of Argos and Arcadia.

This paper soon became an oracle in Wales, and played a great part in stirring up the nationalist movement in the principality.

The emperor himself might probably have interfered, but Louis had provided him with ample employment by stirring up against him the Hungarians and the Turks.

Syracuse, threatened with destruction by Athens, was saved by the zeal of her metropolis Corinth in stirring up the Peloponnesian rivals of Athens to help her, and by the advice of Alcibiades after his withdrawal to Sparta.

In 315 he joined Cassander, Ptolemy and Seleucus against Antigonus, who, however, diverted his attention by stirring up Thracian and Scythian tribes against him.

Indeed, many prominent French and German divines still denied papal infallibility altogether; and Louis Napoleon had regularly fallen back on Richelieu's old device of stirring up the embers of Gallicanism, whenever the French clergy grew restive about his alliance with Victor Emmanuel.

The administrator of public safety is specially charged with the administration of the law in regard to aliens, and this law is applied to persons stirring up sedition.

So wrote Pope Stephen IV., at the end of their rule, when stirring up the kings of the Franks to destroy them.

John of Gaunt having departed to Spain, where he was stirring up civil strife in the name of his wife, the heiress of Peter the Cruel, Gloucester put himself at the head of the opposition.

Charles had no difficulty in stirring up the commercial jealousy of England so as to bring about a second Dutch war (1672).

He was accused of stirring up rebellion among the Welsh, and the justiciar proceeded against him.

And in this work of collection and instruction Filelfo excelled, passing rapidly from place to place, stirring up the zeal for learning by the passion of his own enthusiastic temperament, and acting as a pioneer for men like Poliziano and Erasmus.

The document was not acceptable, however, to Popes Severinus and John IV., the immediate successors of Honorius; and Maximus, the confessor, succeeded in stirring up such violent opposition in North Africa and Italy that, in 648, Constans II.

This Huguenot rising, in stirring up which Spanish diplomacy had its share, was a revolt of discontented and ambitious individuals who trusted for success to their compact organization and the ultimate assistance of England.

The pretender, in4eed, disclaimed any intention of stirring up civil war in Spain; his mission would be to restore order when the country fhould have wearied of the republican rgime whose speedy advent he foresaw.

Nothing like this campaign had been known in the political world since Mr Gladstone's Midlothian days; and it produced a great public impression, stirring up both supporters and opponents.

If the Watchers were once again bringing their battle to earth, it meant the Original Beings imprisoned by the Schism were stirring up old divisions again.

That's just inviting problems – stirring up conflict where it doesn't exist.

This pathetic attempt at stirring up sectarian hatred is the purest evidence yet of your desperation - Anyway, I thought you'd won?

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Silent Hill seems to have done what the Matrix did for movies back in the day, stirring up a harem of wild theories as to what the hell is going on.

Some do this because they enjoy leading fans astray and stirring up 'flame' wars.