Meanwhile the system by which Labour MPs publicly nominate candidates for the leadership and deputy leadership militates in favour of the status quo.
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.
All this militates against the perfect pancake, which should be a cashmere-smooth amalgamation of ingredients.
This involves no shenanigans on the day of the election itself, but still militates enormously against what most people would characterise as a "free and fair" election.
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.
Expect no pressure from fellow Asians regional custom militates against telling tyrants that they stink.Yet Mr Karimov and others seem fundamentally to misunderstand the Korean model.
The fuss over Mr Lomborg highlights an attitude among some media-conscious scientists that militates not just against good policy but against the truth.
The key passage from the minutes:Many members judged that additional monetary accommodation would likely be warranted fairly soon unless incoming information pointed to a substantial and sustainable strengthening in the pace of the economic recovery.The data have gotten a bit better since that meeting, but the improvement is hardly substantial, and fiscal drag militates against it being sustained.
The result, they confidently declare, militates for a lurch to the right.
Whether jurisdictional integration serves the goal of good government rather depends.In one way, as Mr Wolf acknowledges, it militates against it, by suppressing regulatory competition—as when states compete to attract foreign investment.
The tax "wedge" between a firm's wage costs and what employees are paid is one of the largest in the rich world (although Germany's is bigger) and militates against small firms hiring, as does the high cost of firing.
