How To Use Militate In A Sentence
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The supervisor's presence militated against a relaxed atmosphere.
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She felt that she had spoken as impressively as it was necessary to do, and that in using the superior word "militate" she had thrown a noble drapery over a mass of particulars which were still evident enough.
Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)
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This seemed to militate against life; and then I felt, for the first time and not the last, that death at least is straightforward.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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The presence in dyewood extracts of coloring matters in various stages of development has hitherto militated against their use in place of the raw materials by many dyers and printers who are still employing inherited and antiquated processes in which the whole of the coloring matter is not rendered available.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
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Of course, several circumstances militated against that happening.
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Her temperament seemed to militate against her becoming the kind of writer she wanted to be.
ISAAC CAMPION
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Semper attonitus, semper pavidus quid dicat, faciatve: ne displiceat humilitatem simulat, honestatem mentitur.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Financier Peter G. Peterson is a private-equity billionaire and former Nixon Secretary of Commerce, who has militated for 30 years against Social Security and related programs, while also promoting reduced taxation for risky financial transactions.
Paul Kleyman: Pew Boomer Report: Attitude, Not Analysis on Social Security
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Abrahamsen builds her argument by positing and skilfully exploring three key aspects of Africa's political economy that militate against the development of democracy.
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They have consistently militated and lobbied our Congress and Administration not to revoke the protection Saudi Arabia and OPEC receives from our courts and laws under the doctrine of "Sovereign Immunity.
Raymond J. Learsy: The Doctrine of "Sovereign Immunity" Presents a Grave Danger to Our Security
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There are intrinsic differences between English and Romance languages that militate against complete standardisation of the English language; the formation of compound nouns and the associated use of hyphens is a case in point; so is the formation of phrasal verbs, which come, change, and go away as fashion demands.
Two letters
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There is a natural opposition between rhythm and harmony, which endow fascination and beauty and enhance the celebratory intent (akin to dancing), and verbal clarity and communicativeness against which musical complexity and ambition may militate.
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Have the international community played a positive role or have they in fact militated against the development plans through the so called International Development Assistance agencies?
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We can never promise to sail anywhere in particular, because the weather might militate against it.
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The complexity and costliness of the judicial system militate against justice for the individual.
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Insecurity of land tenure militates against long-term conservation of the land resources.
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Yet despite calls for increased quality, there are institutional and economic factors that militate against it.
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Cultures interpenetrate, overlap and procreate as well as militate against one another as they sometimes do.
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In fact, the words of section 118 militate against that.
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Increased costs will militate against further enlargement of the buildings.
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But I militated softly, because even before today, I suppose I wanted my daughter at a school with a Hillel House.
Michele Somerville: On Catholic Colleges And Contraception
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Mrs. Binks did not know what "militate" meant, unless it might be something in connection with the church militant, of which she had heard a great deal; but she was not a mild-tempered woman, and she grew very red in the face at this reproof.
The Lovels of Arden
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But he warned that interviewing candidates for entry should be ruled out as it might militate against untraditional medical students.
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But the funds were simply not there for such improvements, and free market forces of both labor and capital militated against using prisoners as industrial or even artisanal workers.
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The invisible powers of heaven seemed to militate on the side of the pious emperor.
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The example of Steele's drama suggests that the creation of new forms is readily possible, but that powerful traditions militate against too much change.
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Environmental factors militate against building the power station in this area.
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Three facts, however, militate against this possibility.
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The problem with this cheerful notion is that circumstances militate against nature in the big city.
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There would be a question mark on his record that might militate against promotion in the future.
UNTO THE GRAVE
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In a noncapital case, that fact might militate against review, because the Supreme Court would not have much interest in clarifying the application of a now-defunct standard of review.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Summary Reversal Watch in Jefferson v. Upton
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Two factors militate against quick adjustments.
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Scriptural history of the Hebrew patriarchs in Lower Asia; but, as has been explained already, its connection with Scripture rather militated than otherwise against its reception as a complete theory, since the majority of the inquirers who till recently addressed themselves with most earnestness to the colligation of social phenomena, were either influenced by the strongest prejudice against
Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society
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However, there are several factors in the present case which militate against any retroactive spousal support.
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The problem with this cheerful notion is that circumstances militate against nature in the big city.
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(Edwards militated for the Iraq War, and his plan for New Orleans does not commit to Category 5 flood protection.)
Your Right Hand Thief
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There would be a question mark on his record that might militate against promotion in the future.
UNTO THE GRAVE
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This seemed to militate against life; and then I felt, for the first time and not the last, that death at least is straightforward.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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In general, illiteracy and lack of motivation militate against reliability of figures from Third World countries.
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This traditional organisation characterised by individualistic, vertical clienteles militates strongly against the horizontal group-formation typical of modern politics.
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Major cardiovascular or respiratory problems militate against operating.
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Unfortunately, however, several factors militate against the fulfillment of these possibilities in modern Islam.
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Central to his ecclesiology is the impossibility of determining the presence of grace in another's soul, which militates against identifying members of the elect with certainty, and therefore against excommunicating any of them from the Church, as well as ruling out popular election as a means of instituting just civil dominium.
John Wyclif's Political Philosophy
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There may also be factors which militate against the duty to give reasons.
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Sen. MENENDEZ: Well, I think the reality is, is that the Tea Party, which is totally militated in the Republican Party and has also defeated several of their mainstream candidates, including incumbent U.S. senators, has generated a lot of enthusiasm in their party.
A Look At Democrats' Chances In The Midterms
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Federalists effused confidence in people elected to office and responsible to their constituents; their opponents argued instead that “the depravity of mankind militates against such a degree of confidence.”
Ratification
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Further, there are in my judgment a number of factors which militate against the exercise of discretion to order an assessment.
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However, shortage of physiotherapy and other services, together with rapid hospital discharge, militates against such results being achieved.
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There are, however, powerful political forces that militate against any enduring settlement.
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Instead of this, we either put on a stock with a sham tie, (now all _sham_ things, of what kind soever, militate against good taste,) or else, to make the most of our scarf, we fill up the aperture of the waistcoat with an ambitious quantity of drapery, and we stick therein an enormous and obtrusively ostentatious pin.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845
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Her temperament seemed to militate against her becoming the kind of writer she wanted to be.
ISAAC CAMPION
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In any case, linguistic qualifiers militate against the signification of the terms they qualify, even as they expand or reduce the space of signification.
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The complexity and costliness of the judicial system militate against justice for the individual.
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Against this view it can hardly be thought to militate that the Batak does not in set terms affirm his external soul to be in his totem, but alleges other grounds for respecting the sacred animal or plant of his clan.
Chapter 67. The External Soul in Folk-Custom. § 3. The External Soul in Animals
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And therein, while Toddles had grasped the basic truth that his nickname militated against his ambitions, he erred in another direction that was equally fundamental, if not more so.
The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories
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Seiffmilts, in his great work concerning the divine order and regularity in the destiny of the human race, has a chapter entitled a confutation of this idea; I read it with great eagerness, and found therein that this idea militated against the glory and goodness of God, and must therefore be false, -- but further confutation found I none!
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
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There were no special circumstances that would militate against prompt registration.
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The limitations discussed above, together with the shortness and simplicity of the musical phrases militate against any level of complexity of organisation of the musical material.
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Will our message be that the forces of American life militate against their arrival as full men, and we send our deepest regrets?
Chris Weigant: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vietnam Speech
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These factors can militate against researching and introducing new technologies.
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This mismatch, he says, militates against the Hockney-Falco claim that the painter relied on optical aids.
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They note that smoking is a major health problem among forensic psychiatric inpatients, and that a range of factors militate against effective interventions.
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Yet he saw consequences the most unpleasant in this rumour of her attachment; and though he still privately hoped that the behaviour of Mandlebert was the effect of some transient embarrassment, he wished her removed from all intercourse with him that was not sought by himself, while the incertitude of his intentions militated against her struggles for indifference.
Camilla
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There was no talk about nuclear proliferation and places like Iran that have earlier militated the interaction between the two countries.
Pinaki Bhattacharya: Indian Elite's Existential Angst
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We agree with the great publisher William Packard of the New York Quarterly, who said he wanted to present the printed poem in the best possible way; he thought that “bad printing and mediocre book design inevitably militate against a fair reading of a poem”.
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The imbalances inherent in the material—some elements already have shelves of works dedicated to them, while others warrant a paragraph or less—also militate against a satisfying structure.
Periodic Table Talk
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In general, grave fear lawfully superinduced does not militate against consent in the will, and therefore renders contracts neither invalid nor rescindable.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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Her background militates against her.
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Politeness militated against this opinion being expressed
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We will therefore next examine some impacts of the Shinkansen on Japanese society and discuss changing circumstances which militate against the original ambitious plan.
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The location and length of the trial, the unpredictability of witness appearances and the adjournments all militate against full and even reportage.
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In general, illiteracy and lack of motivation militate against reliability of figures from Third World countries.
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militate" against the rights of minorities, the LJP has urged the Centre to ensure that the legislation does not
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We can never promise to sail anywhere in particular, because the weather might militate against it.
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Their internal structures and culture may militate against economic success, but the consequences rebound on us.
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Seiffmilts, [2] in his great work concerning the divine order and regularity in the destiny of the human race, has a chapter entitled a confutation of this idea; I read it with great eagerness, and found therein that this idea militated against the glory and goodness of God, and must therefore be false, -- but further confutation found I none!
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.
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The complexity and costliness of the judicial system militate against justice for the individual.
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Extreme nationalism and ideological zeal militated against observing rules of moderation.
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There are other significant differences, which militate against any viable agreement.
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We can never promise to sail anywhere in particular, because the weather might militate against it.
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Zangwill - who knew well that, unless the Arabs were driven from Palestine, creating a Jewish state in this country implied domination of an Arab majority by a Jewish minority - militated in favour of 'territorialism', the project of regrouping Jews on a territory better suited to the purpose than Palestine, wherever it might be - preferably in the United States.
OpenDemocracy
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The complexity and costliness of the judicial system militate against justice for the individual.
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The fact that he'd been in prison militates against his chances of getting fresh employment.
