Sentence examples for militant terms from inspiring English sources

General Schwarzkopf, who, at 66, was introduced as a "senior American," described the debate over the pension system in militant terms.

Unlike Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the influential Shiite cleric who has also criticized the occupation but not in militant terms, Mr. Sadr has threatened to form his own militia.

Although often expressed in literature in militant terms and, during the years of dynastic conflict, manipulated by the protagonists of York and Lancaster, the aspirations of the community were focused in a demand for English denizenship.

My idea on how to combat this kind of movement is not a popular one, but Leftists in America need to start thinking in more serious and militant terms.

"Militants term Hazaras as 'impure' and have vowed to 'cleanse Quetta of their presence,' " Tahir Hussain, the city's representative for the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, said in an interview.

Such actions are called, a little too romantically, "resistance," but there is no need, yet, for so militant a term.

The resistance factions will abide by it as long as the occupation does the same," he said in a statement, using militant groups' term for Israel.

The resistance factions will abide by it as long as the Occupation does the same," he said in a statement, using militant groups' term for Israel.

We explain what the scarily militant-sounding term means.

Libya's military spokesman, Ahmed al-Mesmari, warned on Monday that Isis militants' long-term goal is to take over Libya's petroleum industry.

Iran, a close ally of Iraq's Shia prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, was quick to express support for the Baghdad government in the fight against what it described as "Takfiri militants" – a term associated with Sunni sectarianism.