militant

IPA: mˈɪɫʌtʌnt

(obsolete) A soldier, a combatant.
An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological faction.
(specifically, communism) someone who supports the Trotskyist political view expressed in the newspaper Militant, or who engages in aggressive left-wing politics.

Examples of "militant" in Sentences

Now, the Pakistan air force is saying they were involved in an air strike on what they call a militant training camp.
It defines the term militant to mean, 'a person or group willing to use force or strong pressure to achieve her aims '.
The IDF, the Israel Defense Forces, saying they were targeting what they called a militant -- a Hezbollah militant's home in this refugee camp.
Lady Warsi is to warn of what she calls the "militant secularisation" of society and propose Christianity is given a central role in public life when she leads a high-level government delegation on an official visit to the pope.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that his country is fully entitled to stop what he called "efforts to smuggle" weapons into Hamas-controlled Gaza - which he called the militant Palestinian group's "terror enclave."
Militant opponents of the pullout have threatened to block roads this week and to bring Israel to a standstill when the army closes off the Gaza settlements in preparation for the evacuation. week before, Greenberg used the term militant to describe a Palestinian who ambushed and killed an Israeli motorist.