How to Use militate in a Sentence

militate

verb

• The long-term trends among Democrats also militate against a deal.
  — Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
• So too in the Exodus story, did Moshe hit the rock after the Jews militated for water.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 4 June 2018
• In the wrong hands, such technology could militate against fair and equal treatment.
  — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
• The facts on the ground now militate against forcibly undoing the steps that have been taken,’’ arbitrator Joel Richler wrote.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• Again, part of what makes this GOAT debate fun: the absence of rules, weighting requirements and points that militate for and against one candidate.
  — SI.com, 16 May 2018
• This militates against the build-up of external debts and internal pressures.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2019
• The city council has long militated for a standard design, rather than having each new station designed from scratch.
  — al, 14 Aug. 2019
• In other words, the Saudis’ threat perceptions militate against too much action.
  — Stephen Tankel, Washington Post, 25 May 2017
• One argument militating against this notion: the ouster of Dominic Thiem.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 2 July 2019
• New infectious diseases come out of the blue, each with its own idiosyncrasies that militate against detailed advance planning.
  — Robert Dingwall, Wired, 29 Jan. 2020
• The scarcity of open slots — just eight or nine productions a season, compared with the dozens of concert weeks available in Davies — militates against a full-on parade of aspirants, as does the long lead time in operatic planning.
  — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Jan. 2018
• But history and mounting reports of labor shortages militate against that.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2017
• And a crucial aspect of his world view militates against monopolistic power.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• But the whole string of errors embodied in these warrant applications militates against applying the good-faith exception.
  — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 18 July 2018
• The left should militate against any creeping conspiracy-mongering among its ranks, even if the problem pales in comparison to the psychosis of practically the entire right-wing media ecosystem.
  — Ryan Kearney, New Republic, 2 July 2017
• The work of every serious social scientist militated against it.
  — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2019
• Igo says, militate against greater privacy protections.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2014
• A factor militating against this possibility is the NCAA selection committee’s emphasis on strength of schedule.
  — Tim Balk, SI.com, 15 May 2017
• Being both a national memorial and a vast entertainment complex — in addition to a home for other performing arts — militates against sleeker definition.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
• Such distortions, often unknown even to the agencies involved, militate against an important element of democratic governance: the public’s ability to participate in federal rule-making.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2017
• While mitigate has an undercurrent of facilitation, militate is more of a suppressive, authoritarian thing.
  — Arunabh Saikia, Quartz India, 23 Mar. 2020
• Believing in imminent apocalypse militates against strong social engagement.
  — The Economist, 4 Nov. 2017

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