Sentence examples for militant efforts from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Militant efforts like Aniston's are reminders of how impossibly labyrinthine and politicized the game of Oscar campaigning has become.

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.

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.

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 right wing militant protesters efforts have back-fired on them.

KABUL, Afghanistan — A roadside bomb on Tuesday killed three Afghan aid workers with a partner organization of the United Nations refugee agency in a relatively peaceful northern province, a sign of the militants' continuing efforts to extend their reach in the country.

In his speech, Obama said his strategy consists of four parts: air strikes, support of other forces battling the militants, counterterrorism efforts to prevent attacks and weaken the Islamic State, and continued humanitarian assistance to civilians.

Despite his newfound lone wolf attitude, Elabi became enmeshed in the militants' propaganda efforts to convince a generation of disaffected Western youth to board a plane to Syria and join the fight.