(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.
Militarist
Definition:
(n.) A military man.
Example Sentences:
(1) The idea came to Kim, he said, when he heard that Seoul's repressive, militaristic Park regime had closed down Shin Films.
(2) He has introduced a cold, militaristic atmosphere into his bereaved home.
(3) But as civilisation gets greedy and society more militaristic, these wise women are edged to the sidelines in favour of a thundering, male warrior god.
(4) Choosing brutal, militaristic language, he says: "The most important change in Whitehall is human resources rules.
(5) Max Hastings reckoned it had been fought in defence of "international law" and small nations, while Antony Beevor took aim at "anti-militarists" .
(6) Citizens of a militaristic empire are inexorably trained to adopt the mentality of their armies: just listen to Good Progressive Obama defenders swagger around like they're decorated, cigar-chomping combat veterans spouting phrases like "war is hell" and "collateral damage" to justify all of this.
(7) And then there were his sorties into international diplomacy, namely suggesting that Russia is a militaristic one-party state with a reputation for repressive police tactics.
(8) Aggressive, militaristic rhetoric constrains governments (or supra-national organisations like the EU), forcing them to respond with aggressive, militaristic action.
(9) By creating a militaristic and nationalist climate while pretending to conduct a comprehensive fight with terrorism, the government wants to force snap elections,” the HDP said on Saturday, underlining the need for renewed dialogue and negotiations in order to save the peace process, now hanging by a thread.
(10) His thesis is a bowdlerised version of historian Max Hastings 's argument that the conflict was a necessary act of resistance against a militaristic Germany bent on warmongering and imperial aggression.
(11) After all, it’s probably not hard to turn a neo-Nazi into a potential Republican voter by telling him that a corporatized, authoritarian, nationalistic, militaristic party is the only thing standing between him and effete, war-losing, left-wing elites who are trying to destroy the homeland via a fifth-column of non-native minorities, college professors, “homosexuals” and other cultural degenerates.
(12) But his LDP colleague Yohei Kono, a former Foreign Minister, said the anniversary was a reminder that Japan should never revisit its militarist past.
(13) The image of Bratton in Britain so far is of a zero-tolerance, tough-talking police leader, in keeping with an image that US police are gun toting and far more militaristic than their British equivalent.
(14) Welcome to Patriot Park: fun for all the family, with a militaristic twist.
(15) Yet Francis has a somewhat complicated past in Latin America, from allegations of complicity during Argentina’s military dictatorship in late 1970s to his lack of support for the more progressive liberation theology doctrine that influenced many Latin American clergy fighting against the region’s militaristic era, which his later evolution to the Buenos Aires archbishop who took the bus to work and is more comfortable with the poor than with the powerful hasn’t erased.
(16) It did so to uphold treaties, to preserve its democratic way of life and to prevent Western Europe being overrun by an expansionist, militaristic Germany.
(17) Is the Women’s Institute actually a militaristic training cell?
(18) Yet Schmidt's generation, if not Nazis, were militaristic.
(19) In 2002 came another big change in the form of the election of Erdoğan’s Islamist-leaning AKP – against the wishes of the secular, militarist establishment, which had insisted that the Kurdish crisis must be solved through force of arms.
(20) Yamaguchi said the rightwing campaign had echoes of the 1930s, when militarists carried out purges of liberal academics.