Preposition: against

• success: N. or S. In every other spot the fire must necessarily be oblique, which would seriously militate against the success of the experiment.

• innovation: However, the contrasting nature of Bexley's schools has for a number of reasons militated against real curriculum innovation and delivery.

• action: An underlying belief has militated against tough action on this.

Modifying Another Word

• strongly: By contrast, the use of AV in constituencies militates strongly against this.

• also: Pressure from America and Europe will also militate in favor of a settlement.

• not: This need not militate against students learning from the past.

• all: We all know that the age of students and the constraints of their timetables all militate against their using local services.

• sometimes: The relatively low status of rights of way work within an authority sometimes militates against due consideration of rights of way matters.

• actually: One of the huge ironies of the web is that the economic incentives actually militate in favor of the monkeys.