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Example sentences for "militate"

Lexicographically close words:
militarists; militarization; militarized; military; militat; militated; militates; milite; militem; milites
  1. It is however quite possible, though far from certain, that the ureter of Amniota may be a special formation confined to that group, and this fact would in no wise militate against the homology I have been attempting to establish.

  2. The stomodaeum of Petromyzon is surprisingly large, and its size and structure in this type militate against the view of some embryologists that the stomodaeum originated from the coalescence of a pair of branchial pouches.

  3. This would seem preferable on strong soils, as it would prevent that rankness in growth which would militate against abundant seed production, and which would add much to the labor of handling the crop.

  4. Should the future investigations of physical science bring to light any facts, indisputably proving the anterior existence of the matter of this earth, such facts would not militate against the Christian Scriptures.

  5. Henry Melville, "we have no fears that any discoveries of science will really militate against the disclosures of Scripture.

  6. But it will be sufficient to consider only such cases as appear most decidedly to militate against my position, and to show that even these are not designed to cause evil or suffering.

  7. Hope you will permit nothing to militate against the preservation of that schedule.

  8. But, it continues with the limitation, “so far as they are not a danger to it and do not militate against the morality and moral sense of the German race.

  9. We demand the legal prosecution of all tendencies in art or literature of a kind likely to disintegrate our life as a nation and the suppression of institutions which might militate against the above requirements.

  10. At first sight the passage quoted from Mr Ryley's article would seem to militate against my position; in reality we merely take up different weapons against Bynkershock and Wolf.

  11. The prominence of sun worship will not have escaped observation; but this discovery cannot militate against my position, for I have already shown (p.

  12. But all this had nothing to do with the duty on which she had come; nor did it, in the slightest degree, militate against her own affection.

  13. Nothing that I shall say to Miss Demolines will at all militate against my loyalty to Lily.

  14. Yet this position does not destroy nor militate against the will of several others in the same band whose voices are as much entitled to a hearing and sometimes more so than his.

  15. Let us pass rather to the consideration of the facts and arguments which militate against the universality of the catastrophe.

  16. It has been said that the inferences of the geologist militate against those of the theologian.

  17. But the immense size of some of these footprints served to militate for a time against belief in their ornithic origin.

  18. These are deep questions, where great names militate against each other; where reason is perplexed; and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion.

  19. Supposing this to be a partially true explanation of the modes in which organs become rudimentary, how does it militate against the idea of separate creations?

  20. And it is also true that there occurs in the proclamation another paragraph which appears to militate against the theory of the perdurance of a "State" through the period of its rebellion against the United States.

  21. Moreover, this measure did not militate against the President's plan of Reconstruction.

  22. However, the mere fact that the funeral ceremonies were carried out with full imperial Chou ritual, and that incest is mentioned at all, seems to militate against the view (noticed in Chapter XIII.

  23. Whether they really came on invitation may be doubted, but that they adopted the language, religion, and customs of the native population does not militate against the assertion that they were Normans.

  24. The fact that a wife is purchased by bride-gifts does not militate against the respect in which she is held or the regard which is paid to her rights.

  25. The mother, however, was very choice of her daughters, and would allow them to perform no labor that would militate against their lady-like appearance.

  26. But Jerome contemplated his escape at some future day, and therefore feared that if married it might militate against it.

  27. And hence the Congregation of Sacred Rites considered that this doctrine did not militate against the holiness of the said Beata or against the approbation of her virtues as heroic.

  28. Nor would such natural suddenness of full consciousness really militate against the claim to supernaturalness of the ideas and feelings thus revealed.

  29. Nor need the remaining clauses militate against the view that the ransomed man is the subject in them.


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    Other words:
    act; function; militate; operate; percolate; perform; play; run; tell; tick; weigh; work