That neighborhood will militate against the road being built on their side of town. From LearnThat.org.
"militate" against the rights of minorities, the LJP has urged the Centre to ensure that the legislation does not. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
Many factors militate against such an application. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
But two factors militate against such leadership today. From Wordnik.com. [Action, Not Words] Reference
It is difficult to conceive how a multitude of witnesses can militate. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic.] Reference
Does the study of physical science militate against religious belief?. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
Conditions militate against their assuming leadership and labor positions. From Wordnik.com. [Kampuchea: A Demographic Catastrophe] Reference
We have right now in front of us an issue that we can all militate against. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2009] Reference
And yet how many circumstances do we see tending to militate against that one essential. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
It may be acquired through practices which do not militate against any of the other virtues. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
And Larry Birkhead is dying to have this test taken, which seems to militate in favor of him. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2007] Reference
As your friend I would not advise you to do anything that would militate against your interests. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts of Reconstruction] Reference
Passion, in him, comprehended many of the worst emotions which militate against human happiness. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
Two facts, however, which militate against this theory, were visible to our eyes on this journey. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
Nilakantha, however, shows that this would militate against the adjective Kankojwalatwacham below. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
I say the Democrats because I think it would militate in favor of Republicans if Latinos stay home. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Altschuler: Grassroots Efforts for Immigration Reform: Voices from Michigan, New York, and Colorado] Reference
Its almost equal opacity, too, and habit of washing up, militate against its use by young painters. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
And there could still be events -- who knows what events -- that could militate against her running. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2005] Reference
It would militate against any attempts to uplift the poorest areas of the country, including those in. From Wordnik.com. [Mayibuye Editorial] Reference
And the facts militate the other direction and suggest it wasn't there to begin with, Reverend Sharpton. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2004] Reference
I challenge the world to bring one single natural fact to militate against the principles here announced. From Wordnik.com. [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference
We talk about being a nation when we ignore the very disadvantages that militate against true nationalism. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
An injunction by the way which seems rather to militate against the idea of the house having been a tavern. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
To explain away the texts which militate against his system, evidently cost him much labour and perplexity. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
Both factors militate against effectively altering the environment sufficiently to achieve the desired effect. From Wordnik.com. ["Two Wings of a Great Movement"] Reference
The duke perceived that the transfer of the Rhenish lands to his jurisdiction might militate to his advantage. From Wordnik.com. [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference
Capacity, capital cost, maintenance and repair militate against the use of these methods for the smaller works. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
But the prefix; and the epithet combined to militate against this ingenious and plausible, but specious, theory. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891] Reference
On the other hand, they in whose favor such attenuating circumstances do not militate, do the office of the demons. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
The problem is that, you know, there are so many things that militate against this ideal of presumption of innocence. From Wordnik.com. [Imprisoned In Mexico And 'Presumed Guilty'] Reference
The national party has the capacity to prevent the adoption of a constitution which will militate against these values. From Wordnik.com. [ADDRESS OF NELSON MANDELA, PRESIDENT OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS ON RECEIVING AN HONORARY LLD DEGREE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND] Reference
We are aware of the fact that the dictates of realpolitik militate against the speedy realisation of such an initiative. From Wordnik.com. [Address by President Nelson Mandela of South Africa to the forty-ninth Session of the General Assembly.] Reference
If we are told it never rains on the coast of Peru, or in Upper Egypt, it does not seriously militate against the theory. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
But Jerome contemplated his escape at some future day, and therefore feared that if married it might militate against it. From Wordnik.com. [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference
Even where government restrictions do not exist, economic and social conditions often militate against a free and diverse media. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
It was tantamount to suggesting that the provisions of the Charter were such as to militate against the chances of a settlement. From Wordnik.com. [STATEMENT IN THE AD HOC POLITICAL COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY] Reference
Will our message be that the forces of American life militate against their arrival as full men, and we send our deepest regrets?. From Wordnik.com. [A Time to Break Silence (Declaration Against the War in Vietnam)] Reference
I've always tried to be as fit as possible to militate against injury and I wanted to be, you know remain injury free during this film. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 18, 2008] Reference
That may militate in favor of the Senate going first once again, but we'll have to see what the composition of the Senate looks like, too. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Altschuler: Legislative Prospects for Immigration Reform: An Interview With Marshall Fitz] Reference
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