What is "militates against"

Usage examples of "militates against".

Maybe the very success of the arthropod Bauplan militates against them ever evolving into forms suitable of filling the ecological niche of large terrestrial life forms.

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Neither have we disproved their existence, although logic militates against it.

He was seriously concussed, and since good medical usage militates against interfering with the unconsciousness ‘.

Too, of course the incredible intimacy of the relationship, intellectual and emotional, as well as sexual, for the master to inquire into, and command forth, and is normally inclined to do so, her deepest thoughts and feelings, which must be bared to him, as much as her body, as well as command, even casually, her most intimate and delicious sexual performances, militates against loneliness.