adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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more
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So the civil rights movement began to splinter, and young blacks in particular followed more militant leaders.
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No egalitarians were more militant than the fathers of daughters.
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Occasionally, such campaigns took more militant forms.
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It fell to later apostles to make public religion more militant .
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The squeeze on consumption prior to 1969 now led to trade unions adopting a more militant posture in wage negotiations.
most
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But many of the most militant of Morrissey attackers most definitely are.
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The Reform commission soon became the most militant of all the defense agencies.
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Although a number of concessions helped pacify minority nationalists, the most militant remained unreconciled.
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They became the most militant of the advocates of cultural renewal....
■ NOUN
action
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But so far the work force of 330 white collar staff have shown no sign of militant action .
group
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More militant groups welcome the publicity it brings.
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In these days of siege, psychiatrists must treat disaffection through militant group action and advocating conscientious, high-quality patient care.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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militant nationalists
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Yassin is the founder of the militant Islamic movement Hamas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although the court found that she was not a militant member of the guerrilla group, she received a maximum sentence.
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And even if the defence took militant forms, its boundaries were defined by extant relations of production.
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It fell to later apostles to make public religion more militant .
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The Reform commission soon became the most militant of all the defense agencies.
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The United States saw the militant nationalist Lumumba as a commun ist sympathiser.
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This latest move is seen mainly as a sop to the increasingly militant , student-led protests demanding an immediate trial.