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Though they recognized the antebellum nation as configured in such a way that militated against their social advancement, Hosea Easton, for example, claimed that Black people were “constitutionally Americans.”

He said it had been made because he had been "effective in exposing the complainant's weakness as a minister and exposing problems with her own record, which might militate against her being accorded a peerage".

The same issue will apply to Taiwan and other flashpoints: Even where strategic ambitions militate for war, the pain of every casualty will be dramatically compounded.

"And it's ridiculous that he wants to call E. Jean a liar when the facts militate toward the truth, which is what she said happened."

While Netanyahu has said he will have final say on policy, his government's commitment to expand West Bank settlements and the inclusion of ultra-nationalists in his cabinet militates against any compromise with Palestinians.