militate

For generations, liberal Catholics have connected their faith’s moral teachings to an egalitarian philosophy that militates against war, economic inequality, environmental degradation and civil rights violations.

But four overriding realities militate against a GOP return to the White House in 2016 and perhaps for several campaigns beyond.

This seems occasionally to militate against the clearness of the work.

There are primarily three factors that militate against the original custom of maternal descent.

Big guns are bad for stream-line, and therefore militate against high submerged speed.

Passion, in him, comprehended many of the worst emotions which militate against human happiness.

But first I will examine two cases which might at first sight seem to militate against the principles I have enunciated.