Sentence examples for militancy for from inspiring English sources

However, we were called militant for doing that, and we were quite willing to accept the name, because militancy for us is time-honoured; you have the church militant, and in the sense of spiritual militancy we were very militant indeed.

I'm not into militancy for militancy's sake".

Isis is also on the back foot west of Baghdad, which had been a hotbed of Sunni militancy for more than a decade.

One former fighter for Ansar Dine, another of the Islamist militant groups that seized northern Mali last year, said he had hoped to trade his militancy for a position in the Malian Army.

Known for his intelligence and charisma, Sistani rose quickly through the clerical ranks, and unlike Ruhollah Khomeini, a fellow cleric in Al-Najaf who would come to rule Iran (1979 89), Sistani eschewed militancy for a "quietist" philosophy.

Isis subsequently accepted that pledge, though it came from two individuals who had no previous contact with the group, and thus accepted responsibility – as well as credit among supporters of Islamic militancy – for the attack.

I love this quote for its revolutionary vision, strategy, and militancy, and for its timelessness.

Once "Red Rosso" was a bastion of union militancy, known for its stoppages or "ragouts" and a mainstay of the 1984/85 strike when Arthur Scargill led the miners into a head-on collision with Margaret Thatcher's government.

Jason Burke (now the Guardian's Africa correspondent) was chosen for The New Threat from Islamic Militancy, Wendell Steavenson for Circling the Square, which traces the revolution in Egypt from Mubarak's fall to Mohamed Morsi's, and Emma Sky for The Unravelling.

Mr. Fayyad said the offices of 103 charities, mostly affiliated with Hamas, would be shut for "violating the law" and serving as a cover for militancy.

In the course of many long conversations outlining the case for the vote and the reasons for militancy, Jenny and her middle-class friend Mary O'Neill have to face down not just sceptical men but also the "Antis", the women who opposed the extension of the franchise and criticised the militants for their unladylike behaviour.