- (or traditional) usage.
Examples of the
original meaning include using "
militate" for "mitigate", "chronic" for "severe", "travesty" for "tragedy", "anachronism"...
-
bottles and
screaming throngs.
Rioting seemed very possible. King's
beliefs militated against his
staging a
violent event, and he
negotiated an
agreement with...
-
trees and
taxation that gave
breaks to
Israeli producers,
factors which militated against growth. Gaza's
direct exports of
these products to
Western markets...
- 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...
- of
North Africa to
promote a
collective Amazigh ethnic identity and to
militate for
greater linguistic rights and
cultural recognition. The indigenous...
-
continually flowing non-repeating
music and art of Eno's
installations militate against habituation to the work and
maintain the visitors'
engagement with...
-
factions emerged. al-Muntada al-Adabi,
dominated by the
Nashashibi family,
militated for the
promotion of the
Arabic language and culture, for the defense...
- the
energy sector. The
climate and the
small amount of
available land
militate against activities such as
farming and
livestock raising (weather conditions...
-
subsequent correspondence. ****inson's own
ambivalence on the
matter militated against the
likelihood of publication.
Literary critic Edmund Wilson,...
- 20th-century
music schools, and
suitable for
large auditoria or recordings –
militates against what is
known of Chopin's more
intimate performance technique...
