Most of its elected officials favor moving away from militance.

But other union leaders foresee less militance on the issue.

The metaphor of war has lost all its militance and urgency.

On these channels, even the least political shows have militance mixed with entertainment.

The brothers have never been held up - a record that John attributes to the family's honest business practices and its militance.

The wonderful militance of the polonaises has become a cliche.

So did increased black militance, which could no longer be plausibly linked to the Soviet threat.

And throughout the Arab world a growing Islamic militance captured most of the attention.

Militance may or may not include physical violence, armed combat, terrorism, and the like.

The workers had a reputation for militance, poor attendance and alcohol and drug abuse.

He had a burning gaze, a single-minded militance for his only cause: Georgia's independence.

It was a time of militance by an emerging band of preservationists.

His ascension to leadership may signal a phase of new anti-Sandinista militance.

During the revolution, Texian soldiers gained a reputation for courage and militance.

The party is also mustering its propaganda apparatus to try and blunt worker militance.

If the militance is to be identified with the antitheatricality of the Protestant north, what about the lyricism?

The militance of the gesture had allowed me to expand the definition of myself as athlete.

But there is no doubt that militance is more than a tactic; Young genuinely sees the world in racial terms.

"It's also a word that connotes militance: activists who are fervent or outrageous.

Meanwhile, the B-track pilots, who now constituted 57 percent of the union's membership, were exhibiting a growing militance.

The Defense Department has confirmed that "a very small number" of the military are linked to right-wing militance, spread over "several locations."

After 1984 industrial militance declined, and a newly amalgamated trade union movement presided over falls in real wages.

Do the results signal a resurgence of union militance, and in a part of the service economy long resistant to labor's charms?

My intrance gone sour, keeping my militance down.

Probe a bit more, though, and Vega cites more far-reaching reasons for the lack of labor militance.