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  • noun Militant attitudes and behaviours.

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militant +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • Hopefully, in this three-way summit between the two presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan and President Obama is that they will come up with some kind of strategy to figure out how all together they can -- they can try to tamp down the militantism.

    CNN Transcript May 6, 2009 2009

  • Islam has its quirks of course – like over-emphasis on a johnny-come lately prophet who writes his own Angel-given divinely inspired texts, endorses polygamy, and militantism against non-believers.

    Matthew Yglesias » Head to Heads 2007

  • When that happens the Kurds will try to declare independance and there will be an upheaval in Turkey and Iran which will promote more religious fervor and militantism.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: July 10, 2006 2006

  • They ` re going to continue to dig their heels in on political Islam, and then the off-shoot of that militantism is going to thrive even more.

    CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2007 2007

  • By choosing to attack Iraq, which had no connection to OBL, 9/11 or Islamic militantism, the US has: lost credibility in the world, set up a bloodbath among innocent civilians, given Iran more power in Iraq that us, caused American casualties, stretched our military to the breaking point, cost us $2 billion a week since 2003 and into the unknown future and created far more future terrorists than any other possible post 9/11 course.

    The number of Americans who have died in the Iraq war... Ann Althouse 2006

  • Once the IRA threat went down and it was clear that Islamic extremism and militantism was replacing many aspects of terror, why not?

    CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2006 2006

  • AMANPOUR: There have been a lot of allegations flung, as the government or the partial government here in Mogadishu that there are connections with Islamic militantism and terrorism, but they, of course, deny it, as you say.

    CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2002 2002

  • Witness the colonial policy of Holland, England, France and Portugal, the free-trade policy of England, the militantism of

    Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

  • The very expensive Saudi program, which includes finding jobs and even wives for young men caught up in Islamic radical militantism is too costly for most countries to imitate.

    Counterterrorism Blog 2009

  • Part of the problem of course is that that voice, as overwhelming and as large as it may be, is being drowned out by this louder voice of militantism and extremism, primarily because they are -- these small groups, these small factions of terrorists are taking part in these spectacular displays of violence and are getting all of the attention and all of the news coverage, precisely because of the fact they are taking part in these actions, but --

    CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2005 2005

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