Sentence examples for militated from inspiring English sources
Thatcher, as he saw things, was pursuing a narrow nationalism that militated against this country playing a full part in Europe.
Banks have secure financing for three years, which has militated against the risk of a liquidity shortage that could lead to bank failures.
Germany has the deepest pockets, but its instinctive thrift (and the suspicion that the benefits would be felt mostly outside Germany) militated against swift and co-ordinated action.
The striving for consensus militated against bolder action.Another criticism is that the ECB has not done more to ease credit conditions by buying government and corporate bonds outright, as the Bank of England and the Fed have done.
His understanding that the support of foreign powers was indispensable for Chinese revolution militated against the anti-imperialist trend of the young intellectuals.
In the philosophy of architecture, as in all other kinds of philosophy, the introduction of the historical method not only facilitated the teaching of these subjects but also militated against the elaboration of theoretical speculation.
The problem here is partly structural – Britain's flexible labour market and short-termist financial markets militate towards a labour-rich/capital-poor approach – but it is also due to a deep-seated cultural bias against investment.
One of the many absurdities of Tory education policy is a school commissioning system that militates against cohesion, while demanding a unified sense of British values.
Mr Netanyahu's inflexibility over the settlers may have got him out of a political jam; it also militates against the peace that would guarantee the Jewish state's long-term survival.
The fuss over Mr Lomborg highlights an attitude among some media-conscious scientists that militates not just against good policy but against the truth.
But Mr Eichengreen notes that the euro, by militating against more widespread beggar-thy-neighbour policies, may have helped preserve the European single market.* "The Slide to Protectionism in the Great Depression: Who Succumbed and Why?", NBER Working Paper No. 15142 (July 2009).
