militant

01. Student demonstrators in some countries are quite [militant], and often throw fire bombs, rocks and bottles during clashes with police.

02. [Militant] bus drivers have staged an illegal strike to protest against the firing of one of their co-workers.

03. What the government likes to call [militant] environmentalists are often just average citizens who are protesting against poor government policy.

04. Ralph Nader has been an important and influential [militant] in the fight for consumer protection in the U.S. for many years.

05. The government is somewhat nervous at the growing [militancy] of the unemployed in this country.

06. Before becoming President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela was a well-known [militant] in the struggle for racial equality and human rights in his country.

07. The [militant] wing of the IRA has rejected calls for a ceasefire during peace talks with the British government.

08. Nietzsche once said that under peaceful conditions, the [militant] man attacks himself.

09. Some of the more [militant] members of the union are calling for an immediate strike.

10. The [militants] within the party are calling for the leader's resignation, saying that he has betrayed the party's principles.

11. Tamil [militants] in Sri Lanka have long sought to establish a separate Tamil state in the country's northern and eastern provinces.

12. In 1987, [militant] Palestinians launched a campaign of strikes and demonstrations known as the Intifada.

13. [Militant] animal rights activists attacked the research facility and liberated all the animals used in experiments.

14. Israeli forces have shot dead two Palestinian men, one of them a wanted [militant], during a hunt for suspected terrorists in a West Bank village.

15. On November 4, 1979, [militant] Iranian students seized the American Embassy in Tehran, and held it until 20 January 1981.