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• v  have force or influence; bring about an effect or change
  Politeness militated against this opinion being expressed

• However this may militate against the picture's monetary value, it is of frequent assistance to its star.
• Despite fantasies of insurrection in some of the more fevered Western media assessments of the confrontation, the balance of forces appears to militate against .
• Young Bogle argued that the growth of professionally managed funds would bring a new age of calm rationality to the market and thus "militate against Lord Keynes' dismal and .

News & Articles

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• New Xulon Title Helps Mold the Next Generation for Success
  MAITLAND, Fla., June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Jane Nwaogu's new book, SIGNATURE IN JET-AGE PARENTING ($15.49, paperback, 978-1-62697-006-9; $25.49, hardcover, 978-1-62509-619-7; $7.99, e-book, 978-1-62697-007-6) raises social, moral, spiritual and psychological issues that militate...
  June 19, 2013 - PR Newswire
• New Xulon Title Helps Mold the Next Generation for Success
  MAITLAND, Fla., June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Jane Nwaogu's new book, SIGNATURE IN JET-AGE PARENTING ($15.49, paperback, 978-1-62697-006-9; $25.49, hardcover, 978-1-62509-619-7; $7.99, e-book, 978-1-62697-007-6) raises social, moral, spiritual and psychological issues that militate...
  June 19, 2013 - PR Newswire

Quotes

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• Wally Oppal in 570 News
  Oppal said that while the "plight of the victims may militate in favour of having a second trial, it does cause emotional suffering by making (their families) sit through a second trial."
• Thabo Mbeki in Independent Online
  I have no reason to think that anybody in Zimbabwe will act in a way that will militate against elections being free and fair,said Mbeki, who has pursued what he calls a policy of "quiet diplomacy" with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's...