What's the difference between martial and militant?
Martial
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or suited for, war; military; as, martial music; a martial appearance.
(a.) Practiced in, or inclined to, war; warlike; brave.
(a.) Belonging to war, or to an army and navy; -- opposed to civil; as, martial law; a court-martial.
(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the god, or the planet, Mars.
(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, iron; chalybeate; as, martial preparations.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Carlsberg made adverts for football scouts ... Scott Murray Martial, who could potentially cost Manchester United £58.8m, had quite a bit to prove.
(2) GROUP A FRANCE The hosts can call on their most talented group of players for a decade, with an exciting young generation featuring Raphaël Varane, Paul Pogba, Antoine Griezmann and Anthony Martial.
(3) In his letter, Franklin said he was "somewhat surprised" by the guilty finding but "gave deference to the court-martial jury because they had personally observed the actual trial."
(4) The often confusing circumstances that led to their courts martial and the ruthlessness of their punishments only fully came to light with the publication in 1989 of Julian Putkowski and Julian Sykes's history Shot at Dawn .
(5) The court martial centre at Bulford where sergeant Nightingale was tried, is quite unlike any ordinary court of law.
(6) If the latter is absent, Olivier Giroud will lead the line, with Martial providing pace from the left flank.
(7) However, the military prosecutors decided to order a fresh court martial even though Nightingale is being medically discharged early next year.
(8) Last month, public discontent spilled over for the first time when Putin was booed during an appearance at a martial arts fight , an event described by analysts as a watershed moment in his rule.
(9) A last-minute winner by Wigan Athletic against Manchester City in the 2013 final had earned the Spaniard a step up to Everton, but just when his side, battling against injuries and tiredness as well as waves of United attacks, appeared to have done enough to earn extra-time at least, a killer finish by Anthony Martial, easily the game’s most eye-catching player, ended the contest with seconds to spare.
(10) Green, who had a martial arts background, has travelled with Murray extensively, as well as supervising his off-season training bloc in Miami every December.
(11) He has been held without charges since his arrest on 5 June but has been informed that under martial law he faces up to 14 years in prison on possible charges of inciting unrest, violating cyber laws and defying the junta's orders.
(12) Invited by Marcus Rashford to make a dart into the area Martial breezed past a bewildered Besic to cut the ball back from the byline and present Marouane Fellaini with a goal against his former club.
(13) Prayuth imposed martial law on 20 May 2014, when he was the country’s army chief.
(14) The contribution of demographics (age, martial status), chronicity (previous alcohol hospitalizations, years of problem drinking), coping (temptation, cognitive coping), and early aftercare attendance, in predicting drinking outcomes was examined using hierarchical regression and discriminant analyses.
(15) CSKA Moscow survive PSV Eindhoven fightback after Seydou Doumbia double Read more Van Gaal, clearly unenthused by the team’s display, cannot have missed another limited performance from Wayne Rooney, most notable for a fairly dreadful shot when Anthony Martial’s quick feet and directness gave him a chance after 20 minutes.
(16) With 15 victories in 16 mixed martial arts (MMA) fights to date, Bisping knows a thing or two about winning.
(17) Photograph: The Guardian The £36m signing from Monaco then appeared from the hotel and the bus was stopped, allowing Martial to join his team-mates on board.
(18) So far, only Corporal Donald Payne has served one year in prison for inhumanely treating civilians following a court martial hearing into the circumstances of Mousa's death.
(19) Two detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq told a US court martial yesterday how they were tortured and humiliated by US soldier Specialist Charles Graner Jr, who, one alleged, was the "primary torturer" at the prison.
(20) We are very happy.” Everton did then equalise through a Chris Smalling own goal, before Anthony Martial gave United victory in added time.
Militant
Definition:
(a.) Engaged in warfare; fighting; combating; serving as a soldier.
Example Sentences:
(1) It said 70 of the killed militants were from Isis, while the other 50 it described as being aligned with the Nusra Front, the parent organisation of the Khorasan cell and al-Qaida’s preferred affiliate in Syria.
(2) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
(3) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
(4) But Abaaoud, the man thought to be a key planner for the group behind the Paris attacks, boasted to a niece that he had brought around 90 militants back to Europe with him.
(5) Although the intraoperative cytologic examination showed a picture suggestive of malignancy, including giant cells and atypical mitotic figures, the clinical and radiologic history militated against a malignant nature for the lesion, which was thus classified as a low-grade giant-cell astrocytoma.
(6) The concept of a head of state as a "defender" of any sort of faith is uncomfortable in an age when religion is again acquiring a habit of militancy.
(7) The clash is the latest in a deadly stream of attacks since July, which officials said had already claimed the lives of at least 70 members of the security services and hundreds of PKK militants.
(8) Kurdish forces are also working to sever the militants’ supply lines between Syria and Iraq.
(9) In the clip – believed to be the first footage of a Briton fighting for the militants in Iraq rather than Syria – he urges others to take up arms and join the growing ranks of foreign fighters.
(10) Last week, Cohen estimated the militants were still earning “several million dollars per week from the sale of stolen and smuggled energy resources” – down on what they pulled in before the coalition air strikes, but still a substantial amount.
(11) Last week Isis bulldozed the ancient city of Nimrud , also near Mosul, which the militant group conquered in a lightning advance last summer.
(12) It is one of the largest cities held by Islamic State militants and lies on the road connecting Baghdad to Mosul.
(13) Isis recently threatened to kill American hostages to avenge the crushing airstrikes in Iraq against militants advancing on Mount Sinjar and the Kurdish capital of Irbil.
(14) The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu , has vowed the militant Islamist group Hamas, blamed by Israel for the kidnapping, will "pay a heavy price".
(15) The militants have also seized a huge chunk of territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border, and have declared a self-styled caliphate in the territory they control.
(16) Mullen said earlier this week there is a "proxy connection" between Pakistani intelligence services and the Haqqanis, meaning the militants are secretly doing the Pakistanis' bidding.
(17) Speaking in Washington on Thursday, the Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, said the offensive underscored the growing threat posed by Isis militants – whom he referred to using the group’s Arabic acronym “Daesh”.
(18) Islamist militants have attacked Iraq's largest oil refinery in the city of Baiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, as Iran raised the prospect of direct military intervention to protect Shia holy sites.
(19) The dramatic rise of Islamic State (Isis) in Syria and Iraq is helping to tear apart the Pakistani Taliban, the beleaguered militant group beset by infighting and splits.
(20) A year after the establishment of the so-called caliphate by Islamic State , western governments are struggling for strategies to challenge sympathy among their citizens towards the militants.