However, Islamic militance is not limited to Arab Muslims, so using the term "Muslim" in this case is not inaccurate.    From Wordnik.com.  [huge, frustrated, hopeless] Reference

This militance, it should have been plain, was no isolated Iranian whim.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Hindsight, the War on Terror Began With Salman Rushdie] Reference

Old friends were alienated by her increasingly kooky and embattled militance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Right-Wing Whackwits] Reference

I know some of you may shudder at the militance of that statement, but it's Biblical and I embrace it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love And Care For All Of You] Reference

At campus rallies, one did not hear militance spurred on by Ornette Coleman on student union PA systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Watching] Reference

But don't we eventually come to a point when we realize that it's not inherently beliefs themselves which are the problem, but the militance.    From Wordnik.com.  [More on that freedom of speech thingamajig everyone is banging on about like] Reference

So I think the whole thing was that we were militant when militance was what was needed, and I think we have been persuasive where persuasion has been needed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Marion Wright, March 8, 1978. Interview B-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

I fear that to many university employees the message being telegraphed here is likely to be read as meaning that the government prefers militance and confrontation tactics to reasoned argument and analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Current Crisis in the Universities] Reference

It means that the revolution which has gained in organization, in experience, and in militance, is every year in a better condition to use all its material and human resources in advancing and developing the country's economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [FIFTH FMC NATIONAL PLENUM] Reference

Dave Weigel of the Washington Post has accused Sarah Palin of "irresponsible and pathetic bullying" in her quick militance to demonize McGinniss as some sort of sleazy stalker with an eye on the daily activities of her children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah Palin Erects Border Fence Around Her House (PHOTO)] Reference

Of course, in this outburst of militance I am completely not noticing the context - two women of mature years, two very hardworking women, as it happens, dodging behind a clothing rack to avoid a twenty-six-year-old management twerp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nickel and Dimed]

Her marriage to the wealthy Noah Slee and her enjoyment of the upper-class lifestyle toned down the radicalism of her youth--so much so that she suggested birth control as a solution for unemployment and labor militance during the Depression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morality is Objective (And People Are Wrong)] Reference

As historian Erica Doss has shown, in the 1960s the Black Panther leadership, heirs no less to this legacy than the Diggers, drew on it to create an image of masculine aggression and streetwise militance in their dress, art, and political culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83] Reference

Let me say that I'm more concerned about the Iranian government maintaining its militance, perhaps supporting, in general, terrorists organizations or engaging in unsafe proliferation of weapons of mass destruction for its own use or for the benefit of others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interview Of The President By Dan Rather] Reference

The plant personnel and the office personnel as well as the shop personnel responded with revolutionary enthusiasm and militance to the ridiculous threats from the traitors and divisionists who failed to tarnish the brilliance of the assembly which was called a "historical" assembly by the electrical workers themselves, nor did the audience offer any opportunity for the kind of incidents that had been planned.    From Wordnik.com.  [BIG MEETING AT THE CTC] Reference

Wave of labour militance in wake of public sector strike.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Yet ACORN's entirely deserved reputation for militance is balanced by its less-well-known.    From Wordnik.com.  [ChronWatch - Articles] Reference

Part of my militance against Badiou in certain posts arises from the anxiety of influence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larval Subjects .] Reference

To probe how deeply the new militance runs in the military, TIME Correspondent Wallace Terry spent six months interviewing black troops in Viet Nam.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

It's probably closer to the truth to say that Shepherd is Gretchen Wilson if Gretchen Wilson could sing and wasn't so proud of herself for her faux-militance and camouflage bikinis.    From Wordnik.com.  [jane dark's sugarhigh!] Reference

Without the incendiary, uncompromising, "jail, no bail" militance of the SNCC volunteers I doubt if the battle for civil rights would have prevailed as rapidly or as - relatively - peacefully.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

These debates touch on political and racial identity, militance, insurrection, and accountable community organizing, all in relation to the race, class and gender dynamics within the movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anarchist news dot org - Comments] Reference

This was a suitably serious ambition for the most sustainedly confrontational artist in popular music and he applied himself to it with perverse relish and, as audience resistance persisted, an increasing militance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expecting Rain] Reference

Chavez went on to laud the militance of the National Liberation Movement-Tupamaros, the movement that Mujica helped found in the 1960s and that carried out bombings, kidnappings and robberies to overthrow elected governments of the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsvine - Get Smarter Here] Reference

One of the outstanding differences between the events in Greece and those in Iceland (besides those of size and of militance-both obviously greater in Greece than in tiny Iceland) is the far greater breadth of the anti-government movement in Iceland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molly'sBlog] Reference

“Fascism” captures that; “militance” does not.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Islamofascism:] Reference