Sentence examples for militated for from inspiring English sources
"Lou" was a dedicated and inspiring teacher and an ardent political activist who militated for progressive causes throughout her long and meaningful life.
Yet from the outset of the Revolution in 1789, in practice women were far from being wholly 'passive.' Many militated for rights and participated actively in the clubs and societies of the revolutionary public sphere.
American TV viewers of the 1980s were treated to endless discussions in which guest apologists for the Soviet system shrugged off the gulag to deplore homelessness in America, while peace groups militated for U.S. nuclear disarmament, in hope the Soviets would follow suit.
Roberto Unger's argument boils down to a damning indictment spelling out charges that the President has betrayed the progressive cause and those who militated for his election.
For those not familiar with Hilton Kramer, he was the acerbic often brilliant chief art critic of the New York Times who had preference for bucolic landscapes and who militated for years against all that was new, edgy, difficult and personally revealing in the plastic arts.
The importance of the town's biggest industry seems to militate for sticking with Britain.
Humanitarian dignity and equality promises to militate for reverse flows from the metropolis to the former coloniesl, but this is not politically feasible or ideologically acceptable.
When Ms Sturgeon refused to rule out a new referendum in a televised debate in Glasgow last month, the audience booed.Demographic factors also militate for patience.
At the time of his death, Mr. Njawé was in the United States attending a meeting of Cameroonian expatriates militating for change in their country.
But rather than organize to militate for pointed reforms, or even to advance a firm message, Party X has opted to fantasize about wholesale renewal.
To secure a livelihood, he became a minister, but, after two years, he resigned his pulpit, under pressure (he was too much of a reformer for his congregation), to militate for abolition.
