Sentence examples for not militant from inspiring English sources

It was not militant at all, except that it provoked militancy on the part of those who were opposed to it.

Gibbon himself was not militant.

I'm not militant about being gay.

"Laurent is not militant," said Caroline Benjo, his producer.

She was not militant; she was not even political.

"They were leftist, but they were bourgeois, not militant".

The Afghan Taliban are not militants.

We're back to shooting hell-spawn, not militants.

Many of the prisoners, similarly treated, he said, were not militants but ordinary citizens.

Simply, it is the widespread belief that militants fighting the Indian state, militants fighting to free "Indian-held Kashmir", militants fighting the Afghan government and militants fighting to "free" Afghanistan are not militants.

And if Isis did hide among civilians, then western attacks would end up killing innocents not militants, thereby creating sympathy, and recruits, for the jihadists.