Sentence examples for a militant effort from inspiring English sources

Unlike Monet or Pissarro, Manet was profoundly influenced by 17th- and 18th-century masters and did not make a militant effort to break with the past.

The "militant" efforts by dealers is a bad tactic, said Mike Jackson, chief executive of AutoNation, the biggest operator of car showrooms in the U.S.

The extremists cite the Quran as justification for ISIS's militant efforts.

Imari Obadele, a teacher and writer whose commitment to black empowerment fired a militant, sometimes violent effort to win reparations for descendants of slaves and to carve out, however quixotically, an African-American republic in the Deep South, died on Jan . 18in Atlanta.

Marshall Curry's If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front scrutinized the efforts of a militant environmental group labeled by the FBI as the "number one domestic terrorism threat," while The Whale, directed by Suzanne Chisholm and Michael Parfit, looked at an extraordinary connection between a killer whale and the people of Nootka Sound, British Columbia.

In a series of high-level visits in the past month on how to stem the militants' efforts to destabilize Pakistan, Washington officials have focused on the new army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, an implicit recognition of the shifting balance of power.

The YPG has in effect blunted the militants' efforts to extend their "caliphate" in Syria and along the Iraqi border.

KABUL, Afghanistan — American and Afghan forces backed by airstrikes engaged in a "fierce firefight" with Taliban insurgents in a remote and mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least 29 militants in an effort to capture one of their leaders, according to a joint military statement.

Jordan's security services also have a long history of trying to infiltrate Islamic militant groups, efforts that have yielded both success and failure.

The United States has joined India in demanding that Pakistan halt infiltration by militants in an effort to end terrorist attacks.

As the U.S. continues its war in Afghanistan, al-Qaeda and Afghan Taliban fighters have reached out to Pakistani militants in an effort to set aside their differences to take on the U.S. led forces in Afghanistan.