But while the West's encounter with Sudan's rulers and Algeria's rebels seems to fit with its experience of antagonism from Islamic militants in Lebanon, Iran, Afghanistan and Libya, it would be a mistake to think that such militance represents the attitude taken by Muslims throughout Africa.
His late work reflects his political militance and a deepening of his underlying attitudes: the rejection of tyranny, the search for happiness.
With control passing from the Montagnards after Robespierre's fall, moderates in the Convention hoped to put the Terror and sansculotte militance behind them while standing fast against counterrevolution and rallying all patriots around the original principles of the Revolution.
United by an extreme hostility to Parisian militance, the Girondins never forgave the Paris Commune for its inquisitorial activity after August 10.
Old friends were alienated by her increasingly kooky and embattled militance.
Despite the relative accessibility of "The Broken Bride," Kawakubo denies vehemently that she has mellowed ("I am still as aggressive as I've always been"), and every few years she reasserts her militance by exploding another bomb on the Paris stage.
Old friends were dismayed by her increasingly erratic militance.
If she appropriated certain virile entitlements the way she borrowed her lovers' sweaters and overcoats — and elements from the uniforms of their grooms, gamekeepers, and crewmen — there was no militance to her chic.
Even before Fuller left New York, her columns had become more concerned with political engagement than with transcendence, and Europe pushed her further toward militance.
The gay community was still powerful politically but the old militance had gone - gay liberation had worn itself out, though the gay-rights movement continued.
In the nineteen-nineties, she gravitated toward a coterie of younger gay men who introduced her to Berlin's techno-music culture and to a new brand of militance: for gay rights, for the environment, and against the Gulf War.
