They only purified it; and discarded the idea of its being a work of merit, or offering for the sins of the living and the dead, which militates against the scriptural doctrine, that Christ's sacrifice is the only sin offering.
Here is a whole mess of infamy developed into a great private enterprise that militates against all law and order.
Everything there militates against the open expression, and, indeed, the possibility of any expression, of the actual socialist sentiment.
X Another order of ideas which one cannot pass by in silence at the present time militates in favour of vegetable alimentation.
Persons governed by such a spirit cannot view with complacency the separate divisions of the universal church, though there is nothing in their constitution that necessarily militates against the unity of the spirit and the bond of peace.
Oh, my gracious lord, if it be her attachment to Scotland which alone militates against me, I will promise that her time shall be passed between the two countries.
There is a downright brutality in it which militates against any subtly voluptuous explanation.
One of the things which militates most against the Negro here is his unreliability.
Another habit of the Negro which militates against his progress is his prowling about in all sorts of revels by night, thereby unfitting himself for labor the next day.
Again, the unbroken continuity of the vitrified line militates against the signal-system theory.
But the feebleness of his willmilitates against any sustained effort, and if for a brief space he can conserve his immobility, victory eludes his grasp, for his tics resume the offensive and increase in violence.
But, gentlemen say, this doctrine militates with the principles we contend for.
But in Sumatra neither snow nor other congelation is ever produced, which militates against the most plausible conjecture that has been adopted concerning the Alpine goitres.
Excessive drinking is the common vice of the Gonds and the principal cause which militates against their successfully competing with the Hindus.
The fact that tanbaku is also Persian for tobacco militates against the Sanskrit derivation suggested by Mr. Ganpat Rai and others, and tends to demonstrate its American importation.
They who oppose it are bound to show that his theory militates with that fact; otherwise, their quarrel is not with his book, but with the Constitution of their country.
The same reason whichmilitates against the former interpretation is opposed to this also.
Even the general reason, that a prophecy which refers exclusively to Judah cannot be at all expected from a prophet who had received his special mission to Israel, militates against it.
The analogy of the parallel Messianic passages likewise militates against such a limitation; e.
Against such a supposition militates the fact, that even the election of David's house is represented in history as being distinct from the election of David himself; for in 1 Sam.
But that which especially militates against the reference [Pg 101] to an individual is the comparison with the fundamental passage, Gen.
But from this deduction of the faculty of a priori cognition in the first part of metaphysics, we derive a surprising result, and one which, to all appearance, militates against the great end of metaphysics, as treated in the second part.
The dogmatism of metaphysics, that is, the presumption that it is possible to advance in metaphysics without previous criticism, is the true source of the unbelief (always dogmatic) which militates against morality.
The account of Moses therefore militates against sense and fact as they now are.
Whatsoever therefore militates against, or is contrary to, these foundations, we at once reject as false and impious.
Prussian blue borders slightly on green, a quality which militates against its use in skies and distances.
Its extreme fugacity, however, militates against its employment by artists.
A certain chalkiness, moreover, somewhat detracts from its transparency, and militates against its use in water.
But it seems to me that philology militates against this explanation.
Is there anything in such results of modern criticism which militates against the most inferential expansion of a single clause in the Apostolic, the Nicene, or even the Athanasian Creed?
In the case of man, his thinking capacity often militates against successful instinctive and habitual actions--the moment we start to consider, we hesitate and are lost.
The government of China, in sanctioning an act of parental authority that militates so strongly against every principle of nature, of moral right and wrong, seems to have felt the force of this remark.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "militates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
