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militant English

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militant

(= hawkish, warlike) disposed to warfare or hard-line policies militant nations hawkish congressman warlike policies (= competitive) showing a fighting disposition highly competitive sales representative militant in fighting for better wages for workers his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy a militant reformer (= belligerent, warring) engaged in war belligerent (or warring) nations

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We members of the Church Militant can admire the heroes of the war, but in our hearts we are men of peace.
That is why today I am founding a regular army, well equipped, militant, permanent.
Do your voices command you not to submit to the Church Militant?
Do you submit to the Church Militant?
I believe in the Church Militant, but I will obey God alone, my creator.
We lived at peace with them until they were made militant by the dark power.
As long as it reflects the death throes and decay of our capitalist system. a Western can claim to be militant.
Twenty-five students were arrested along with three faculty members believed to be members of a militant organization. The governor spoke at the businessmars luncheon and said the time has come to remove the campus problem students.
And what of the militant Father Grandier, Your Eminence?
They learned the art of corporate and militant action.
So will trade union leaders faced with the threat of mass unemployment and militant unofficial strike action.
Let's see this militant.
I'm a militant queen!
Are you a militant?
The mysterious ruins show signs of an eventful history and a militant past line our solitary path.
Hilda Garosi, 30 years old, born in Sudetenland, Italian by marriage, militant Nazi, and General von Hauser's mistress.
You can see in your mind's eye, perhaps, the suffragette marches, the militant female demonstrations.
We are very fortunate in having with us a recent recruit, whose outlook is particularly militant and individualistic.
He's not a militant and that's important!
Your newspapers show a black militant with a gun.
I mean, he's got this bug about the militant angle, see.
Once I was a militant opponent to war.
Yes, but a militant coward.
Then the local paper will describe you as a militant virgin.
Member of a Black Militant group called Uhuru.
I spotted one that belonged to an older woman, to whom I ascribed a militant past which was perhaps pure imagination --but all the same, her presence here, this evening, this tender expression.
Have you become a militant?
Because I am a militant!
Who has seen the military? 00:35:10,000 -- 00:35:15,000 Who has seen the militant?
Yes, but I'm a militant coward.
Political Opinions: In 67, Trotskyist sympathizer or militant, or else, anarchist sympathizer or militant.
A militant.
I'm not that militant.
A new militant splinter group has broken away from the Bajoran settlement camps.
They are the most militant of all our warrior castes.
Was hiding out with a militant refugee group up till a month ago.

News and current affairs

In addition, government spending was on the rise, labor unions were becoming more militant, policies to control pay kept breaking down, and profit expectations were falling.
Few came with any deep understanding of the dynamics of the political conflict between militant Tamils and the Sri Lankan state.
GAZA CITY - Hamas, the militant political movement that has ruled Gaza since 2007, has emerged from the latest round of fighting with Israel with its regional status significantly enhanced.
More important, what a militant faction did to the Labour Party is being done now not to the Democrats, but to the Republicans.
In fact, all militant liberation movements have renounced violence in due time, from the IRA to the Sandinistas to the African National Congress.
A similar outcome was observed in Pakistan's Swat Valley after the militant takeover of 2009 rendered the region inaccessible for months.
So neither money nor military power alone can end the bloodshed, and diplomacy with the less militant Chechen leader Aslan Maskhadov seems unlikely, for three reasons.
Third, even if negotiations with less militant Chechens occur and succeed, terrorism will continue under the leadership of the religious fanatic Shamil Basaev.
Instead, they press for the impossible request that the Palestinian Authority dismantle the militant groups, an act that Israel, with all its powers, has not succeeded in accomplishing.
The hudna worked out between militant Palestinian groups and the Palestinian Authority (with the knowledge of the Americans) clearly lacked a major component: Israel's assent to the agreement.
The pattern of the past three years shows that the first order of business must be a ceasefire between the Israeli government (and all its military and intelligence agencies) and the Palestinian Authority (including all the militant factions).
A more militant Iranian posture is likely to increase friction with Iraq, as well as inspire more anti-American violence there.
Will European countries try to pretend that Ahmadinejad's militant rhetoric and provocations don't matter and that some diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear ambition can be found?
Under the nominal control of the militant cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the group has become Iraq's largest and best-armed fighting force and is pursuing its own political and security agenda.
But, while this was reflected in reformist trends in the country's wider political life, a movement toward militant fundamentalism took shape within the regime's power structure.
Its soldiers are well trained and rely on advanced technologies and military abilities that are superior to those of the Arab countries - and far better than those of Palestinian militant groups.
But many of the released prisoners will be transferred to the Gaza Strip, a territory that is completely separate from Israel, where they might join Hamas's militant forces but will not be able to execute terrorist attacks against Israel.
Though largely discredited inside the country, this militant movement still has a following around the world, and further protests may come at any time and in unpredictable forms.
But what would it mean for Afghanistan, a country that has long suffered at the hands of homegrown militant groups and foreign forces alike?
Militant nationalism, partly encouraged by nervous rulers, might be one consequence.
A general strike was called, and militant students threw up barricades in the center of Algiers.
But were a more militant policy approach by the Republican-controlled US Congress to prevail, America might well find that it loses the ally that makes the key difference for the sanctions' success.
Indeed, militant Islamists, hoping to recover from the devastating blows they have absorbed since the war on terror began, are already positioning themselves to capitalize on the coming war with Iraq.

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