militarist

Example Sentences

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The flag was met with angry protests by the prior Seoul government, due to its connections to Japan’s militarist past.

From Washington Times • Jun. 1, 2023

After a mutant-hating militarist named Stryker invades their school, the X-Men must join forces with Magneto to rescue Professor Xavier and neutralize the threat posed by Stryker.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2019

The anti-torture movement resists that part of militarist ideology that says war can be waged without moral or legal limits.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2018

He writes, for example, that, “like Spartans, Wehrmacht soldiers were effused with militarist doctrine, chronically short of men, brilliantly led on the battlefield — and often deployed for imbecilic strategic ends.”

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2017

Even the Gospels are distorted to convey a militarist meaning, for the author quotes them to remind us that it is the warlike and not the meek that shall inherit the earth.

From German Problems and Personalities by Saroléa, Charles