verb
definition
To give force or effect toward; to influence.
example
to militate against the possibility of his election
definition
To fight.
Examples of militates in a Sentence
Ben Sira's omission of the name of Ezra rather militates against the supposition that he had the Chronicler's book before him when he.
Consequently, for a certain focal length, much deeper curves must be resorted to if the new glasses are to be employed; this means not only greater difficulties in workmanship, but also greater thickness of glass, which militates against the chance of obtaining large disks quite free from striae and perfect in their state of annealing.
Sumerian, in fact, predominated, not only on the historical monuments, but also throughout the religious literature, a fact which militates against assigning the newly discovered Semitic legend to the period of these early Sumerian texts.
It has been considered that the intimate connexion of church and state militates against the view that the parochial system was founded as a national institution, since any legislation on the subject of the township and parochial systems would probably have resulted in the merging of the one into the other.
The relatively low status of rights of way work within an authority sometimes militates against due consideration of rights of way matters.
Others have argued that the relative permanence of such forms of body modification militates against their full absorption into the fashion system.
His trios were, indeed, published under the title of "pianoforte sonatas with accompaniment of violin and violoncello"; but this in no way militates against the above remarks as to their proper method of performance nowadays, when we take into consideration the greater strength of tone of the modern pianoforte, especially in the bass, and the fact that in no case could a violinist consent to play as an accompaniment such melodies as that at the beginning of the G major trio known as No.
In 1894 a harbour, constructed by a French company, was opened, but the insecurity of the outer roadstead militates against its success.