A state of agitation or turbulent change or development.
Portuguese
fermentação Catalan
fermentació A process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol.
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Editors and journalists were involved in agitation and politics at every level.
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Dr Losener arrived at my home in a state of extreme agitation.
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The political agitation became general in the country as early as July.
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When the old general hurried up in agitation, the battle was lost.
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Would Mr Abbott agitation continue were he left on the back bench?
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However, he said further unrest was likely in coming weeks and months.
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The latest political ructions have not led to widespread unrest and violence.
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Earlier this year, Sisi warned that unrest could bring down the state.
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Russian state television channels have given the unrest large amounts of airtime.
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Police have so far taken a relatively soft approach to the unrest.
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Olive fermentation brine causes an important local environmental problem in Mediterranean countries.
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Changes in fermentation characteristics reflected the change in source of available nitrogen.
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All wines contain small amounts; it is a natural byproduct of fermentation.
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The water excludes air and assists in holding harmful fermentation in check.
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Sanitation Sanitation is perhaps the most important part of any fermentation process.
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Yet it bears the brand of this most operatic of directors: a mixture of ritual and tempestuousness.
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About noon the wind began again to blow with great tempestuousness, and flat contrary to Whitelocke's course.
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The bystanders were moved according to their temperaments and religious views, but all were touched by the tempestuousness of Lady Burton's grief.
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The severity of the climate, the inclemency of the seasons, the sterility of the soil, the tempestuousness of the sea, would afflict and punish enough.
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Rice vinegar is simply rice wine that has been allowed to ferment.
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Let it ferment; in twenty-four hours it will be ready for bottling.
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In the tumultuous year of 1859 all Italy was in a ferment.
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The vessel was then left to ferment for upward of ten days.
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The boxes were in a ferment like the stir of swarming bees.
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For the racial ferment had been strong in him, as in her.
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But the issue of Königgrätz startled Napoleon and set France in ferment.
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The ferment was showing itself in acts of open and violent disorder.
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All of Europe is in a ferment, is bubbling over in places.
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The whole palace was in a ferment with literary intrigues and cabals.
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It is the heat and the ferment that have got into life.
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Such attempts now began to keep the peninsula in a constant ferment.
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This was enough to set the six little Bunkers in a ferment.
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This was continued till the public mind was in a perfect ferment.
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And the verse of quicker figures has a new fire and ferment.
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The next step after the milk is obtained is to ferment it.
