(n.) A military state or condition; reliance on military force in administering government; a military system.
(n.) The spirit and traditions of military life.
Example Sentences:
(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.
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.