militate

Example Sentences

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But the sheer horizontal and vertical reach of the progressive mindset in newsrooms, the entrenched nature of their ideological skew, will militate against a successful resetting of their compass.

From The Wall Street Journal

Though they recognized the antebellum nation as configured in such a way that militated against their social advancement, Hosea Easton, for example, claimed that Black people were “constitutionally Americans.”

From Salon

He said it had been made because he had been "effective in exposing the complainant's weakness as a minister and exposing problems with her own record, which might militate against her being accorded a peerage".

From BBC

The same issue will apply to Taiwan and other flashpoints: Even where strategic ambitions militate for war, the pain of every casualty will be dramatically compounded.

From Seattle Times

"And it's ridiculous that he wants to call E. Jean a liar when the facts militate toward the truth, which is what she said happened."

From Salon