- and
raised his arm
starting in 1973 as a sign of his
devotion and "to
militate against wars and
support world peace". He
spent two
years of his life in...
-
trees and
taxation that gave
breaks to
Israeli producers,
factors which militated against growth. Gaza's
direct exports of
these products to
Western markets...
-
bottles and
screaming throngs.
Rioting seemed very possible. King's
beliefs militated against his
staging a
violent event, and he
negotiated an
agreement with...
- of
North Africa to
promote a
collective Amazigh ethnic identity and to
militate for
greater linguistic rights and
cultural recognition. The indigenous...
- the
energy sector. The
climate and the
small amount of
available land
militate against activities such as
farming and
livestock raising (weather conditions...
- that the
fleet is
obsolete in the face of this new
weapon and this will
militate against appropriations to
preserve a
postwar Navy of the size now planned...
- in origin.
Secularism originated in
Europe as
series of
movements that
militated for a new,
heretofore unheard-of
concept called "secular Judaism". For...
-
subsequent correspondence. ****inson's own
ambivalence on the
matter militated against the
likelihood of publication.
Literary critic Edmund Wilson,...
-
unchanged in
France until the late 1970s, when the deaf
community began to
militate for
greater recognition of sign
language and for a
bilingual education...
- "misuse"),
originally meaning a
semantic misuse or error—e.g.,
using "
militate" for "mitigate", "chronic" for "severe", "travesty" for "tragedy", "anachronism"...
