10 sentences with 'militant'
Example sentences and phrases with the word militant and other words derived from it.
• « Thus, what began as a protest movement against corruption within the Church quickly became a number of widespread and increasingly militant branches of Christianity itself. »
• « The purpose of the Jesuits was to fight Protestantism and heresy, forming a militant arm of learned soldiers at the Pope's disposal. »
• « To impose its grain procurement and pricing policies, the government had to rely heavily on local militant organisations that often terrorised the very peasants they were supposed to represent. »
• « In turn, after 1848, socialism became increasingly militant because socialists realised that a major restructuring of society could not occur peacefully, given the strength of both conservative and liberal opposition. The most important militant socialism was Marxism, named after its originator Karl Marx. »
• « After 1848, socialism became increasingly militant, focusing on the need for confrontational tactics, even outright violence, to achieve a better society. »
• « Of the new political movements considered in the last chapter of this book, only socialism failed to achieve its stated aims at least somewhere in Europe, becoming an increasingly militant movement opposing not only the conservatives, but also their former occasional allies: the liberals and the nationalists. »
• « While most feminists persisted with peaceful demands for reform, others were galvanised by these political betrayals and became militant. »
• « In Britain, the best known militant feminists were the Pankhursts: mother Emmeline (1858 - 1928) and daughters Christabel and Sylvia, who formed a radical group known as the Suffragettes in 1903. »
• « Meanwhile, both militant and non-militant feminists succeeded in making women's suffrage a major political issue: as many as 500,000 pro-feminist women and men gathered at a rally in London in 1908. »
• « By 1917, the Bolsheviks were a highly organised militant group of revolutionaries with contacts in the army, navy and working classes of the major cities. »