(1) I have equated nationalism with racism, xenophobia, inward-looking-ness and militarism.
(2) And in terms of genuine defence needs (as opposed to state militarism), what greater known threat is there to human security than the prospect of runaway climate change?
(3) Although China has so far refused to enable dialogue between our leaders, I sincerely hope that it will come forward, rather than keep invoking the ghost of militarism of seven decades ago, which no longer exists."
(4) On Thursday he also took umbrage at Vladimir Putin's New York Times op-ed criticising US militarism.
(5) On a macro level, a party that is already thoroughly militarized and corporatized – and largely indifferent to Main Street whenever it poses a conflict with Wall Street – offers little alternative to the other party that already celebrates that.
(6) Leave aside the noxious and pompous view that the views of non-national-security-professionals - whatever that means - should be ignored when it comes to militarism, US foreign policy and war crimes.
(7) For obvious reasons, the rhetoric that the west is not at war with the Islamic world grows increasingly hollow with each new expansion of this militarism.
(8) A retrospective review was performed of 43 clinical records of patients who underwent surgical treatment for low rectal cancer less than 12 cm from the anus in the General Surgical Service of the Hospital Militar "Dr. Carlos Arvelo" of Caracas, between 1969 and 1988.
(9) They were just defending their homeland and fighting what they saw as German militarism."
(10) Expect more policy hearings on militarization in Washington such as the one I held two weeks ago .
(11) Totally self-taught, he was able to visualise the need for unity across national borders in opposition to self-serving patriotism, and also to visualise the rights of then colonial subjects to their own destinies.” Making parallels with the Stop the War Campaign in 2003, of which Corbyn was chair, and the campaigning by Hardie against Britain’s involvement in the first world war, the latest Labour leader adds: “Perhaps the strongest message, a century on, is that a world of peace can only come by opposing militarism, but it also needs an economic system with socialist principles, not the worship of personal wealth.” Which events is it best to avoid?
(12) All here together, with their non-native relatives, standing strong in the face of outrageous, unnecessary and violent aggression, on the part of militarized local and state law enforcement agencies and national guard, who are seemingly acting to protect the interests of the Dakota Access pipeline profiteers, at a cost of hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars, above all other expressed concerns.
(13) What his comment misses is that many feminists and scholars of war and peace studies have highlighted how war, military, militarism and militarised masculinity have perpetuated intersectional gender and sexual violence and exploitation.
(14) In relation to their domestic affairs, Orwell believes that foreigners are wrong to write off the English hatred of "militarism" as merely a "decadent" form of hypocrisy.
(15) Abe and his allies belong to a conservative school of thought that seeks closer military ties to Washington, yet want to roll back reforms made during the US-led postwar occupation, which began with the then emperor, Hirohito, renouncing his divine status as a “living god” and marked the end of state Shinto’s role as the spiritual bedrock of Japanese militarism.
(16) Sanders did mention Freddie Gray (killed by police in Baltimore) and Eric Garner (killed by police in New York City) and demanded that needless deaths like theirs must stop, while calling for an end to the militarization of police, the establishment of community policing and an end to mandatory minimums.
(17) We believe that both the murder of another unarmed black youth and the building of a new jail which will primarily house black people are state violence, a term which encompasses both immediate acts of violence by the state (like stop and frisks, or police shootings) and “slower” forms of violence that the state sanctions, condones or enables (like poverty, segregation, surveillance, militarization and incarceration).
(18) As former victims of Japanese militarism in the first half of the 20th century, both countries had made clear that they expected Abe to repeat the key phrases of the Murayama statement, or issue a similarly unequivocal apology of his own.
(19) ‘I feel abandoned’ By fall, a highly militarized police force began making mass arrests , deploying rubber bullets, water cannons and pepper spray, locking indigenous people in cages and prompting a United Nations investigation .
(20) Adding to the tensions and underscoring how history haunts Tokyo's ties with Beijing and Seoul, two Japanese cabinet ministers defied Noda to pay homage at the Yasukuni shrine for war dead that many see as a symbol of Japan's past militarism.
Military
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown.
(a.) Performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition.
(n.) The whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
(3) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(4) To safeguard its long-time regional ally, Iran gave full political, economic and military backing to the embattled Syrian president.
(5) The incidence of antibody to exotoxin was highest in the age groups ranging from 26 to 32 years, where the positive rates were higher than 40% and 30% for military personnel serving in Sarawak and Sabah, respectively.
(6) Abe’s longstanding efforts toward those goals, which include the successful passage of a state secrets act and efforts to expand the scope of Japan’s military activities have already damaged relations with China.
(7) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
(8) This is what President Carter did when he raised the spectre of terminating US military assistance if Israel did not immediately evacuate Lebanon in September 1977.
(9) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(10) Among the dead were two young young officers, Major Mujahid Ali and Captain Usman, whose life stories the media seized upon, helped by the military's public relations machine.
(11) The exercise comes at a sensitive time for Poland’s military, following the sacking or forced retirement of a quarter of the country’s generals since the nationalist Law and Justice government came to power in October last year.
(12) A questionnaire was presented to 2009 18--19 year old military recruitment candidates which enabled assessment of antipathy towards patients with severe acne vulgaris, the occupational handicap associated with severe acne and subjective inhibitions in acne patients.
(13) Chapter three Administration of the camps The preparatory camp is the first home and school of the mujahid in which his military and jihadi training sessions take place and he undergoes sufficient education in matters of his religion, life and jihad.
(14) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
(15) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
(16) Tony Abbott urges Europe to adopt Australian policies in refugee crisis Read more Given that Obama – whatever one’s views on his strategy – is not advocating a bigger military contribution, the only difference is that Abbott is “urging” the US and others to do more, which sounds resolute, and Turnbull says he would consider any request if it was made.
(17) There has been a tendency to portray Russians as aggressively imperialistic at heart, a homogeneous bloc thirsty for military adventures.
(18) Germany’s parliament has thrown its weight behind the European campaign against Islamic State , voting with a solid majority in favour of deploying military personnel to Syria in a non-combat role.
(19) Urban ambulance systems emerged in the second half of the 19th century as an outgrowth of military experiences in both Europe and America.
(20) They had to be seen as the good guys, and not as either this administration or that administration.” Comey left the justice department in 2005 for Lockheed Martin, the largest military contractor in the US, and eventually an investment firm and Columbia Law School.