militate

How To Use militate In A Sentence

• We can never promise to sail anywhere in particular, because the weather might militate against it.
• Yet he saw consequences the most unpleasant in this rumour of her attachment; and though he still privately hoped that the behaviour of Mandlebert was the effect of some transient embarrassment, he wished her removed from all intercourse with him that was not sought by himself, while the incertitude of his intentions militated against her struggles for indifference. Camilla
• They note that smoking is a major health problem among forensic psychiatric inpatients, and that a range of factors militate against effective interventions.
• This mismatch, he says, militates against the Hockney-Falco claim that the painter relied on optical aids.
• These factors can militate against researching and introducing new technologies.
• Will our message be that the forces of American life militate against their arrival as full men, and we send our deepest regrets? Chris Weigant: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vietnam Speech
• The limitations discussed above, together with the shortness and simplicity of the musical phrases militate against any level of complexity of organisation of the musical material.
• There were no special circumstances that would militate against prompt registration.
• Seiffmilts, in his great work concerning the divine order and regularity in the destiny of the human race, has a chapter entitled a confutation of this idea; I read it with great eagerness, and found therein that this idea militated against the glory and goodness of God, and must therefore be false, -- but further confutation found I none! Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
• And therein, while Toddles had grasped the basic truth that his nickname militated against his ambitions, he erred in another direction that was equally fundamental, if not more so. The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories